The US shoots down two “Unidentified Objects” between the Great Lakes and Yukon
The US military has shot down the fourth unidentified flying object in US airspace in less than a week, Reuters reported. The accident occurred above Lake Huron.
Just two days earlier, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he had ordered another object shot down, and a US plane had followed the order. The unidentified object has been detected over the Yukon.
"Recovery teams are on the ground to find and analyze the object," Trudeau told the media.
The string of shootdowns began last week when a Chinese hot air balloon was spotted in US airspace. Federal authorities said it was a spy balloon, while China said it was a weather balloon that had been blown off course. Following the downing of the balloon, Beijing signaled that tensions with Washington were rising.
Reports began last week of an unidentified flying object being shot down in Alaska on Friday. Just a day later another object was shot down over the Yukon.
Following the third crash, a US Air Force general said the Pentagon still could not identify what the two newest objects actually are, how they stay in the air and where they came from.
“We call them objects, not balloons, for a reason,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, head of NORAD and Northern Command, said as quoted by Reuters. When asked if it was possible to rule out an extraterrestrial origin of the objects, VanHerck replied: “I'll let the secret service and counterintelligence community find out. I didn't rule out anything."
— North American Aerospace Defense Command (@NORADCommand) February 12, 2023
Meanwhile, The Hill quoted White House spokesman John Kirby as saying the Pentagon is investigating the object's origin, whether it comes from another country or is owned by an individual or company. . He added that the purpose of the object is not yet clear.
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