From the Batavian Broadcasting Center (BBC)
Reports of aliens, alien like objects, or anything that has to do with phenomenon of unknown origin is all in likelihood faulty weather balloons coupled with colder-than-average weather and atmospheric conditions according to Government Scientists. Rumors of craft landing and loading up citizens in various locations around the country, notably in areas where non-believers or Chinese citizens reside, are completely false according to an unnamed Batavian official. They also stressed the rumors about the Batavian Minister for Economic Affairs being sacrificed to Mammon, praise his inexhaustible and gluttonous desire for greed and destitution, to appease any sort of extraterrestrials are 'Grossly exaggerated'.
His Majesty Matthew IV wanted to stress the need for all parties to stand down their air defense systems, gather their citizens in the flattest possible area, and stop adding to the global panic around the globe.
In other news, Scientists from Charn have reenforced Batavian findings that the unusually high energy and radiation signatures outside of the solar system some countries have picked up is simply due to the El nino cycle starting around Lacerta.