The US military shot down another aircraft over Lake Huron on Sunday.
Source: CNN citing US official and congressmen
Details: An American official said that the shooting down of an unidentified object occurred “at the direction” of President Joe Biden, the newspaper writes.
This operation marked the third day in a row that an unidentified object was shot down over North American airspace.
Michigan House of Representatives Democrat Elissa Slotkin said on Sunday that the operation to shoot down the object over Lake Huron was carried out by pilots of the US Air Force and the National Guard.
“Great work for everyone who carried out this mission both in the air and at headquarters. We are all interested in what exactly this object was and its purpose,” she wrote on Twitter.
Another member of the House of Representatives, Rep. Jack Bergman of Michigan, also confirmed the operation on Sunday, tweeting: “The US military has decommissioned another ‘site’ over Lake Huron.”
What came before: On Sunday in China, local authorities announced the discovery of an unidentified flying object over the waters near the coastal city of Rizhao in the east of the country.
background:
- On February 3, the Pentagon reported that over the territory of the United States they recorded balloon movement with surveillance equipment – “launched, most likely by the PRC.”
- US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken postponed trip to China after a Chinese balloon was found flying over sensitive targets in the western United States. China stated that the US used this incident for PR, and Blinken was not even going to go to them.
- On February 4th, the Pentagon announced that another Chinese spy balloon was flying over Latin America. On the same day, the US shot down a balloon.
- On February 10, the US military tracked and eventually shot down an unidentified object flying at high altitude in airspace near the Alaska region.
- On February 11, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the downing of an unidentified object in the airspace of the country.
