Amidst salacious talk about extraterrestrials and UFOs the media fed into the government hype about balloons flying across the United States – a “crisis” that coincidentally dropped just as a devastating investigative report revealed how the US blew up the Nordstream pipeline. Now US officials are saying the balloons were “benign.” Nothing to see here. Also today: Tracking the unvaxxed and US runs out of missiles for Ukraine.