Lake Huron

U.S. officials said an ``unidentified object'' has been shot down Sunday for the third time in as many days, this time over Lake Huron.

It crossed into Canadian airspace on Saturday and was over the Yukon, a remote territory, when it was ordered shot down by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. aircraft to investigate and the object was taken down in U.S. A flying object brought down over the remote northern coast of Alaska on Friday was more cylindrical and described as a type of airship. Beijing said the U.S. officials immediately blamed China, saying the balloon was equipped to detect and collect intelligence signals and could maneuver itself. Officials were not able to say who launched the objects and were seeking to figure out their origin. It was flying low at about 20,000 feet, according to one of the officials. and Canadian authorities had restricted some airspace over the lake earlier Sunday as planes were scrambled to intercept and try to identify the object. The latest object brought down was first detected on Saturday evening over Montana, but it was initially thought to be an anomaly. has said was a massive Chinese spy balloon appeared over the U.S. Now, four objects have been shot out of the sky by U.S. The extraordinary air defense activity began when a white orb the U.S.

LAKE HURON—A fourth high-altitude airborne object has been shot down by an American fighter jet in a joint United States-Canada military mission on Sunday ...

And on Friday, another high-altitude object was shot down over Alaskan waters. The object was shot down north of Michigan, over the Canadian waters of Lake Huron. On Saturday, another airborne object was shot down by the joint military mission led by the North American Aerospace Defense Command over the Yukon.

The U.S. military shot down a flying object over Lake Huron near the U.S.-Canada border, U.S. officials said on Sunday, in the fourth such interception by ...

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OTTAWA/WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Canadian investigators are hunting for the wreckage of an unidentified flying object that was shot down by a U.S. jet ...

U.S. On Saturday, the U.S. Republican lawmaker Mike Turner, who serves on the U.S. The first object was a balloon shot down off the coast of South Carolina on Feb. And a third object was destroyed over [Canada's Yukon](/world/us/us-still-gives-no-details-about-alaska-ufo-new-object-seen-over-canada-2023-02-11/) on Saturday with investigators still hunting for the wreckage. China denies the first balloon was being used for surveillance and says it was a civilian research craft. It can be brutally cold in the winter, but temperatures are unusually mild for this time of year, which could ease the recovery effort. officials identified the first object as a Chinese surveillance balloon, and the detection has strained U.S. On Friday, a second object was shot down over sea ice near Representative Debbie Dingell, one of several Michigan lawmakers who applauded the military for downing the object. On President Joe Biden's order, a U.S. F-16 fighter shot down the object at 2:42 p.m.

An "unidentified object” was shot down with a missile by U.S. fighter jets Sunday over Lake Huron, and it was believed to be the same one tracked over ...

U.S. On Sunday, the U.S. The news comes as U.S. [shot down Saturday over the Yukon](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/trudeau-ordered-u-s-fighter-jet-to-shoot-down-object-over-northern-canada) was described by U.S. officials said the two more recent objects were much smaller in size, different in appearance and flew at lower altitudes than the suspected Chinese spy balloon that fell into the Atlantic Ocean after the U.S. That large white orb first appeared over the U.S. They said the Alaska and Canada objects were not consistent with the fleet of Officials were not able to say who launched the objects and were seeking to figure out their origin. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., tweeted that “the object has been downed by pilots from the U.S. Air Force and National Guard.” The shootdown was confirmed by four U.S. fighter jets Sunday over Lake Huron, and it was believed to be the same one tracked over Montana and monitored by the government beginning the night before, U.S. WASHINGTON (AP) — An “unidentified object” was shot down with a missile by U.S.

Another air defence operation happened in Canada, this time an object was decommissioned near Tobermory, Ontario.

The downing of a high-altitude object near the Canadian border is the fourth such incident this month.

And the military needs to have a plan to not only determine what's out there, but determine the dangers." Meanwhile, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said the UK would conduct a security review following the recent incidents in the US and Canada. It was described as cylindrical and smaller than the first balloon China denied the object was used for spying and said it was a weather monitoring device that had been blown astray. 4 February: US military shoots down suspected surveillance balloon off the coast of South Carolina. Officials have not publicly identified the origin or purpose of these objects.

The U.S. military shot down another high-altitude object on Sunday afternoon, this one over Lake Huron, three U.S. officials confirmed to ABC News.

and then shot down off the coast of South Carolina by a U.S. The military waited to shoot it over the Atlantic Ocean out of concerns that downing it could risk people on the ground being injured by debris, officials have said. The first incident involved a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that was tracked across the continental U.S. The senior U.S. "The object has been downed by pilots from the US Air Force and National Guard. Great work by all who carried out this mission both in the air and back at headquarters. Because they "have not been able to definitively assess what these recent objects are, the president wanted to act out of an abundance of caution to protect our security and our interests," she continued. "The location chosen for this shoot down afforded us the opportunity to avoid impact to people on the ground while improving chances for debris recovery." We're all interested in exactly what this object was and [its] purpose," Rep. "There is no sense they are anything but meteorological balloons or some sort of weather balloon, not spy balloons," the official said. "Its path and altitude raised concerns, including that it could be a hazard to civil aviation," Brig. There is no indication of surveillance capabilities, but the administration cannot rule that out.

Canadian Defence Minister Anita Anand said in a statement Sunday evening that a “high-altitude object” was detected in U.S. airspace over Lake Huron.

Department of Defence later confirmed that to be true and the U.S. Anand said Saturday the Yukon object was “potentially similar” to the Chinese spy balloon destroyed Feb. “If it is a test of NORAD capabilities, then the tests have failed. Only the first one has been confirmed to have originated in China. Recovery efforts are underway to find and analyze all the objects. Anand and the U.S. aircraft to investigate and the object was taken down in U.S. Sunday, about three hours after the object was taken down. military shot down a fourth high-altitude object in just over a week on Sunday, this time closer to heavily populated areas in southern Ontario and the U.S. The move marks the most recent incident in which U.S. fighter jets shot an object out of the sky, starting with a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon off the coast of South Carolina on Feb. “NORAD launched Canadian and U.S.

U.S. officials say the military has shot down a fourth "unidentified object" Sunday, this time closer to heavily populated areas in southern Ontario and the ...

U.S. 1, but the military waited until it was not over a populated area before taking it out. until it was shot down off the coast of South Carolina near Myrtle Beach. Only the first one has been confirmed to have originated in China. authorities have had little to say about the objects or their intended purpose beyond surveillance. "That's why the analysis of this object is going to be very important." Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told ABC's Sunday morning news show that U.S. officials say the military has shot down a fourth "unidentified object" Sunday, this time closer to heavily populated areas in southern Ontario and the U.S. Defence Minister Anita Anand said Saturday the Yukon object was "potentially similar" to the Chinese spy balloon destroyed Feb. fighter jets shot an object out of the sky, starting with a Chinese surveillance balloon off the coast of South Carolina on Feb. It is the fourth time in just over a week U.S. Michigan Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin tweeted that an object was being monitored by the military over Lake Huron.

The U.S. Air Force general overseeing North American airspace said a recovery effort will be undertaken to gain more information about an octagonal object ...

The U.S. But the unusually assertive response was raising questions about whether such use of force was warranted, particularly as administration officials said the objects were not of great national security concern and the downings were just out of caution. Beijing said Monday it had no information on the latest three objects. Tim Walz tweeted that airmen in the 148th Fighter Wing, an Air National Guard fighter unit in Duluth, Minn., shot down the object. authorities have made clear that they constantly monitor for unknown radar blips, and it is not unusual to shut down airspace as a precaution to evaluate them. Not doing it. Just absolutely not true," he said in an interview with MSNBC. F-16 fighter jet shot down the object at 2:42 p.m. U.S. The Chinese government said the balloon shot down off the Carolinas was a civilian research craft that had mistakenly blown off course, and accused the United States of overreacting. The list includes an object shot down on Saturday over Yukon that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau characterized a day later as "a threat to civil aviation and a potential threat to Canadians." officials identified an object as a Chinese surveillance balloon and shot it down off the coast of South Carolina on Feb.