The United States and Canada
returned to
alert
this Sunday for the appearance of an
unknown flying object
in the Great Lakes area, on the border between the two countries.
According to a congresswoman, the UFO was shot down this Sunday by US military planes.
Without giving explanations, the Joe Biden government had previously and momentarily closed the airspace over Lake Michigan.
Later, the Department of Defense confirmed that it was due to the sighting of another aerial element, the fourth sighted in recent days in North America.
According to
The New York Times
, an F-16 combat plane participated in the operation this Sunday, which fired a Sidewinder air-to-air missile, as had happened on February 4 in the action against the Chinese balloon off the coast. from South Carolina.
The surprise began this Sunday around 1:30 p.m. local time (3:30 p.m. in Argentina), when the US civil aviation authority (FAA) announced the temporary closure of the airspace over Lake Michigan.
They justified it for reasons of "national defense", although without details or an immediate pronouncement from the Pentagon.
An hour later, the same body confirmed the reopening.
"The FAA briefly closed a portion of the airspace over Lake Michigan to support
Department of Defense operations
. The airspace has been reopened," they said from the entity.
Simultaneously, on the other side of the border,
Canada also closed space
.
The closure was established in the Tobermory area of Ontario.
Although the Pentagon has not yet made an official statement,
Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin
aired a call
she received from the US Department of Defense.
She later confirmed the military action.
"Just got a call from the Pentagon. Our military is keeping a
close eye on the object over Lake Huron
. We'll know more about what this was in the next few days, but for now, rest assured, all parties have been focused on it." from the moment it crossed our waters," wrote the member of the House of Representatives for the state of Michigan.
He then reported that the object was shot down by "United States Air Force and National Guard pilots."
She was joined by Congressman Jack Bergman.
"I have been in contact with the Department of Defense regarding operations in the Great Lakes region today. The US military has dropped another 'object' over Lake Huron," said the Republican representative.
"I appreciate the decisive action of our combat pilots. The American people deserve many more answers than we have," he claimed facing the White House.
It is the fourth object shot down in recent days
The news on Sunday comes after three flying objects, including one described by Washington as a Chinese spy balloon, were shot down over the United States and Canada in a week.
The first of these occurred on February 4, with the operation that strained relations between Washington and Beijing.
Then US forces targeted an object in Alaska.
And finally, there was a similar episode in Canada.
Regarding the most recent incident, in which combat aircraft participated, Justin Trudeau confirmed this Sunday that search teams were still working to recover the remains of the flying object in a remote area in the northwest of the country.
The prime minister added that the decision was made to shoot down the object when it was flying over the Canadian territory of Yukon, at an altitude of about 12,000 meters and 160 kilometers from the Canadian border with Alaska (USA), due to the risk it posed. for aviation.
"He was a threat to civil aviation and a potential threat to Canadians," Trudeau explained.
He operated a US F-22 fighter jet, which fired an AIM-9X infrared missile, along with Canadian CF-18 fighter jets and a CP-140 Aurora patrol plane, also from the Canadian Air Force.
Although Canadian authorities waited to shoot down the object until it could be visually identified, the government has not yet provided any details about the artifact.
On Saturday, the airspace of the US state of Montana was temporarily closed, but a fighter jet sent to investigate failed to identify a "flying object", according to the military, which later acknowledged the alert was due to a radar anomaly.
That version, however, was contradicted in the last few hours by a Republican senator from the state of Montana.
"I am in constant communication with NORCOM and they have just informed me that they are confident there IS an object and it WAS NOT an anomaly. I am now waiting for visual confirmation. The security of our nation is my priority," Matt Rosendale said.
In the Southern Hemisphere, Uruguay
it also set off the alarms for strange presences in the sky.
The Air Force of that country reported 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).
The United States hypothesis on UFOs
Before the device was shot down over Lake Huron, the Democratic leader in the Senate offered the same explanation for the appearance of the previous ones that the United States government developed for the first UFO: that they are devices directed by China.
In this sense, officials were also issued who, in dialogue with
The New York Times
,
denied evidence of extraterrestrial activity.
In an interview with ABC
,
Schumer revealed that President Joe Biden's team thinks these last two objects were also balloons, "but much smaller than the first."
The senator, who was informed about these objects by the White House National Security Adviser, Jake Sullivan, stated that the devices were flying at 12,000 meters of altitude, posing a "danger" for commercial aviation.
Schumer stressed that until a few months ago the United States did not know anything about these balloons and assured that the Army and US intelligence are focused on collecting all the necessary information.
This adds to the official explanation, which pointed to Beijing as responsible for the object shot down at the beginning of the month on the coast of South Carolina after crossing the US territory from the northwest (it was sighted for the first time in Montana) to the southeast, where it left the territory before it fell into the sea.
In subsequent appearances, US officials warned of a spy program developed by China, with actions in 40 countries on five continents.
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