We need answers — what’s going on in the skies?

If only our government were as forthcoming with answers as it is with orders to shoot down unidentified objects in the sky.

But it isn’t, and that leaves the American people and their imaginations to fill in the blanks.

A U.S. fighter jet shot down an “unidentified object” over Lake Huron on Sunday on orders from President Joe Biden, according to the Associated Press. It was the fourth such downing in eight days.

Part of the reason for the repeated shootdowns is a “heightened alert” following a spy balloon from China that emerged over U.S. airspace in late January, Gen. Glen VanHerck, head of NORAD and U.S. Northern Command, said in a briefing with reporters.

Fair enough. The spy balloon incident was an alarming reminder that the U.S. is a prime target of surveillance and espionage. China said the object was essentially a weather balloon, then alleged that America has hoisted spy balloons into its airspace.

Since then, fighter jets last week also shot down objects over Canada and Alaska.

Here’s the part that gives us pause: Pentagon officials said they posed no security threats, but so little was known about them that Pentagon officials were ruling nothing out.

They could be anything — but whatever they are, they pose no security threats. So why the uptick in takedowns?

“We have been more closely scrutinizing our airspace at these altitudes, including enhancing our radar, which may at least partly explain the increase,” said Melissa Dalton, assistant defense secretary for homeland defense.

It’s like amping up a motion sensor. Where it once detected potential intruders, now an errant pigeon can set it off.

But if you’re going to heighten surveillance, you must also be ready with answers for a curious and rattled public, especially if you’re deploying missiles at these “no security threat here” flying objects.

Gen. VanHerck went all in on the “they could be anything” narrative in a briefing with reporters. Asked if officials have ruled out extraterrestrials, VanHerck said, “I haven’t ruled out anything at this point.”

These incidents have been unnerving, and that statement did nothing to reassure the public. The White House followed Monday with damage control.

“I know there have been questions and concerns about this, but there is no — again no indication — of aliens or extraterrestrial activity with these recent takedowns,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said.

The government needs to get on message, but first it needs a message, not sound bites from whomever takes the mic at news conferences. “How do we explain this to the American people?” should have been the question right after “President Biden, do you authorize a takedown?”

While investigators are trying to determine what these objects are, there is one thing we know for sure: the incidents have been a welcome distraction from the House probes into Hunter Biden’s laptop and the Biden family’s business deals.

The president’s approval rating hit around 40% right before the State of the Union speech. With numbers like that, there’s no place to go but…up.