Routine UFO/UAP intercept missions are being flown

[Gary C]

If the pilots had failed to make visual contact with the balloons simply because of bad weather, we would have a new entry in MUFON database, correct?

Eventually, it was determined that the objects were weather balloons, officials from the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) told The War Zone Sunday night. As we have frequently reported, UFOs, now known as unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), are often confused with drones and balloons, although that doesn't mean there still aren't some odd, if not unexplainable, cases. Still, many in the UFO community roll their eyes at these claims as from Roswell on, balloons became a regular explanation for strange things in the sky.

https://www.twz.com/air/f-16s-find-balloons-not-ufos-after-sunday-scramble-norad