On video: the interception of the Chinese balloon over the Atlantic Ocean (Reuters)
The US military has refused to provide details about the unidentified object that was intercepted by a fighter jet over Lake Huron, Michigan, last month. In an audio clip taken from that flight, the confused pilots can be heard wondering what the flying object was. NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command)
chiefs ) and the US Northern Command refused to provide any details about the mysterious object.
General Glenn D. Vanhark said in response: "I don't intend to classify them as balloons. We call them objects for a reason."
Michigan Congresswoman Alyssa Slotkin said that while much is unknown about the object that was shot down by the F16, it did not pose a national security concern.
"NORAD, whose purpose is to protect the United States, pays close attention to everything that goes around in our skies. They lowered the threshold of what they're looking at and the object showed up on their radars - so it's intercepted."
The US has shot down at least four separate aircraft hovering over US airspace in the past month. The first incident, which has since been identified as a Chinese spy balloon, was spotted over Montana before being intercepted and located in the Atlantic Ocean. Two more objects were intercepted over Alaska and Canada before the fourth was intercepted 24 kilometers off the coast of the peninsula Michigan's top. "The operations are unprecedented in times of peace," officials said.
While the US military claimed that the actions taken were a security matter and described it as "high alert" - since the downing of the spy balloon, little has been done to calm the public's questions about these mysterious objects. Even the possibility that they are aliens has not been ruled out. "I have not ruled anything out at this point ", Vanharke said. There is a potential for an increase in objects hovering in the skies of the United States and yes, it is also possible that the military has become more adept at detecting foreign objects.
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On the evening of the report, photos of objects hovering in the sky were also shared. Many showed a chain of lights that were sometimes linked close to the Starlink satellite, a company owned by Elon Musk.In addition, the next day, a voice clip from the cockpit of the F16 plane that tracked the unknown object in Lake Huron was released.
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In the short audio clip, the F-16 Falcon pilots can be heard trying to describe the object - with one referring to it as "metallic" and adding that it is "smaller than a car".
It sounds like it's hard for them to identify what it is because of the bright light coming from the sun, but discussions about it being a balloon definitely arise among the pilots - and in the end they classify it as one.
The FAA has closed the airspace over parts of Lake Michigan amid the reports.
Many questions remained unanswered, but the White House tried to calm the situation and announced that it was not a threat from extraterrestrials.
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