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The United States shot down another unidentified flying object near the border with Canada on Sunday.
US President Joe Biden ordered the shooting down over Lake Huron as a precautionary measure, a senior government official said.
The object was not classified as a "military threat".
US Air Force and National Guard pilots were involved in the operation, according to Democratic Representative Elissa Slotkin, who previously tweeted about the incident.
It is the third suspected object that was taken from the sky by US fighter jets in three days.
On Friday, the US military shot down an unidentified flying object over the state of Alaska.
On Saturday, another object was destroyed by a US F-22 over northwestern Canada during a joint operation by Canadian and US fighter jets.
The day-long overflight of a suspected Chinese spy balloon over the United States had previously led to a scandal between Washington and Beijing.
The US fighter jet finally shot down the balloon on Saturday last week on the US east coast over the Atlantic.
Washington said on Wednesday that the downed balloon was one of a fleet of spy balloons that flew across five continents.
After the discovery of the balloon, China had denied the allegation of espionage.
Instead, Beijing spoke of a civil balloon for meteorological purposes that had gone off course.
US officials have meanwhile firmly rejected this account several times and affirmed that it was a question of a spy balloon.
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