10 things you need to know today: February 13, 2023

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1. U.S. fighter jets shoot down unidentified object over Lake Huron

U.S. military jets on Sunday shot down a flying "object" over Lake Huron — the fourth such incident in the last week. The first was a Chinese surveillance balloon downed off the coast of the Carolinas last week after it crossed the United States. On Friday and Saturday, U.S. fighter jets downed objects in remote areas off the northern coast of Alaska and over Canada's Yukon territory. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said national security officials believed those unidentified objects were balloons, but smaller than the first one. A Pentagon spokesperson said the other objects "did not closely resemble" the massive first balloon. Another Pentagon official said there was "no indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity with these recent takedowns."

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.