“The object was shot down by pilots from the United States Air Force and National Guard,” said Elissa Slotkin.member of the House of Representatives of the federal Congress, on Twitter.
“Great job by everyone who carried out this mission both in the air and at headquarters; we are all interested in knowing exactly what this object was and its purpose,” added the legislator from Michigan, the state that borders the north and west. this with the lake.
Another Michigan congressman, Rep. Jack Bergman, said the military had “deactivated” an object over Lake Huron.
The fact was confirmed by two unidentified White House sources.one of which assured that the operation was carried out “under the direction” of President Joe Biden, according to CNN television.
hours before, andThe government had temporarily closed the airspace over Lake Michigannear Lake Huron, for “national defense” reasons.
He Michigan and the Ferret They are two of the five so-called great lakes located on the border between the United States and Canada, and the first is the only one of the five whose waters are entirely in United States territory.
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reported in a statement that it “briefly closed a portion of the airspace over Lake Michigan to support Department of Defense operations.”
“The airspace was reopened,” he said.
Fourth UFO in just over a week
These events occurred one day after a similar closure on Mountain to investigate a “radar anomaly”reported the Army, according to the AFP news agency.
It also happened after last week three flying objects, including one described by Washington as a Chinese spy balloon, were shot down over the United States and Canada.
The demolition of chinese globe off the coast of USA, followed by two others of smaller objects on Alaska and Canada, raised concerns about North American security and further strained relations with China.
The incidents began in late January, when a giant Chinese balloon, which Washington officials described as a spy, drifted for days in US skies before being shot down on the 4th of this month by an F-22 aircraft off the the coast of South Carolina.
China insisted that the balloon was conducting meteorological research.
The Pentagon said it had a gondola the size of three buses and weighed more than a ton, as well as being equipped with multiple antennas and solar panels large enough to power various intelligence-gathering sensors.
A cylindrical object without propulsion
On Friday, the United States shot down another object off northern Alaska, the Army said. This object lacked any propulsion or control system, according to authorities.
Yesterday, an American F-22 aircraft, following orders from that country and Canada, shot down a “high-altitude airborne object” over the central territory of yukon, in Canada, some 160 kilometers from the border with the United States, considering that it represented a threat to civil aviation.
Canada described it as cylindrical and smaller than the first balloon.
Defense Minister Anita Anand declined to speculate on whether he was of Chinese origin.
US Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer, briefed by President Joe Biden’s administration, said today that the latter two objects were likely balloons, “but much smaller than the first one,” and that both were flying at about 12,200 meters high.
Military teams, working with planes, boats and mini-submarines, were touring the shallow waters off South Carolina this afternoon.
Military images showed the recovery of a large piece of the balloon. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) took custody of the remains for analysis.
Operations to recover the second object were continuing on the sea ice near Deadhorse, Alaska. Recovery teams were looking for remains of the third object in the Yukon, Anand said.
The Pentagon noted that the FBI was working closely with Canadian police. US officials said the first balloon was equipped with surveillance equipment that could intercept telecommunications.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said his mission was to “monitor strategic sites in the continental United States.” The Biden government maintained that the balloons were part of a “fleet” that traveled across five continents.
The authorities indicated that it is now known that three balloons briefly flew over the US territory during the government of Donald Trump (2017-21) without being detected at that time, and one under the Biden administration itself.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) sent fighter jets yesterday to investigate a “radar anomaly” over Montanabut did not find any related objects.
China denounced the downing of the first balloon, said it “seriously violates international practice” and reserved the right “to use the necessary means to deal with similar situations.”
Until tonight there was no Chinese reaction to the last three takedowns.
At the same time, China reported the discovery of an unidentified flying object (UFO) that it was trying to shoot down, and Uruguay, the discovery of strange “flashing lights” in its airspace.
Authorities in the province of Shandong, in eastern China, announced today the discovery of a UFO near the coast and were preparing to shoot it down, according to the ANSA agency.
The object was located in the waters of the Yellow Sea, near the coast of the city of Rizhao, the provincial maritime authorities said in a statement collected by the Chinese international state newspaper Global Times.
The Chinese Army, according to the note, was preparing to shoot down the object.
On the other hand, the Uruguayan Air Force reported in a statement that it was investigating the presence of unusual “flashing lights” seen by citizens in the sky over Termas del Almirón, in the Paysandú department.
The force indicated that an investigation was entrusted to the Commission for the Reception and Investigation of Complaints of Unidentified Flying Objects (Cridovni).
Source: Ambito
