 On February 13, China's foreign ministry said it does not have any information on the flying objects that were shot down by the United States over Alaska and Canada. US military fighter jets on February 12 shot down an octagonal object over Lake Huron, the Pentagon said, the latest incident since a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon put North American security forces on high alert. It was the fourth flying object to be shot down over North America by a US missile in a little more than a week. At a regular news briefing in Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said he had no understanding of the latest incidents but reiterated that the first balloon shot down by US forces over the Atlantic was completely a force majeure accident. The US's frequent firing of advanced missiles used to strike down unidentified flying objects is an overreaction of excessive force, he said. At the same briefing, Wang said that US high-altitude balloons had flown over its airspace without permission more than 10 times since the beginning of January 2022. He did not provide further details. Does China deny that any or all of the three objects that have been shot down in recent days belong to China or is it just a coincidence?