America has shot down another unidentified suspicious object in the air. According to US authorities, the suspicious object was seen flying over Lake Huron near the Canadian border in Michigan.
According to the news from the American media, F-16 pilots successfully targeted the mysterious object, which was considered dangerous for local flights. The Michigan assemblyman confirmed the incident in a tweet. An unidentified suspicious object was also shot down over the waters of Alaska on Saturday and Friday, while a Chinese balloon was destroyed for violating airspace on February 4.
This is the fourth incident of its kind after a suspected Chinese spy balloon was targeted by a US missile last week, the Pentagon said, adding that North American security forces were on high alert. Is.
U.S. Air Force General Glenn Van Hurk (who is tasked with protecting U.S. airspace) told reporters that the military still has not been able to identify what the three flying objects were, how they got into the air. were suspended and where are they coming from? “We’re not calling them balloons for some reason, we’re calling them (objects),” said Glenn Van Hurk, head of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NAAD) and Northern Command.
“We cannot confirm or deny the possibility of extraterrestrials, we would like the intelligence community and the counterintelligence community to find out,” said Glenn Van Hurk. A US defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the military had no evidence that the objects were extraterrestrial.
Pentagon spokesman Brigadier General Patrick Ryder has said in an official statement that ‘on the order of President Joe Biden, an American F-16 fighter jet flew over Lake Huron on the US-Canada border at 2:42 p.m. local time. Killed this flying object. He said that this unidentified object was flying at a height of 20,000 feet in the air, which was not a threat to the military but could interfere with commercial air traffic.
A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the object appeared to be octagonal (8-cornered) in structure with wires hanging from it, but nothing appeared to be hanging from them.
The Pentagon said it appeared to be the same object that was recently found near sensitive military sites in Montana after US airspace was closed. Glenn Van Hurk told reporters that the military will try to find the wreckage of the unidentified object that crashed on Lake Huron to learn more about it.
The latest incident has raised new questions about the unusual sightings in the skies over North America in recent weeks that have raised tensions between the US and China. Earlier on February 4, a US military fighter jet shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina.
Later, on the orders of US President Joe Biden, the US fighter jet shot down another unknown and mysterious object flying over the northern coast of Alaska. was killed