Fourth airborne object shot down over North American airspace

On February 12 at 2:42 p.m. U.S. President Joe Biden, based on recommendations from U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III and U.S. Military leaders, ordered the shooting down of yet another unidentified flying object over American territory.  Yesterday’s object was flying about 20,000 feet above Lake Huron in the State of Michigan.  After receiving the “go ahead” from Biden, an F-16 fighter fired an AIM9x missile and successfully took down the airborne object. 

Yesterday’s UFO was the third object shot down by the U.S. Military in the last three days, and about one week after the U.S. shot down a Chinese spy balloon over the Atlantic Ocean.

The unidentified object the U.S. shot down over Lake Huron was the fourth taken down over North America in less than two weeks. @tomcostellonbc reports. pic.twitter.com/uSXVWNNvSn

— TODAY (@TODAYshow) February 13, 2023

As of this writing, there is no definitive answer as to exactly what these last three objects that were shot down  are, except to say that they are “objects.” The BBC quoted U.S. Northern Command Commander General Glen VanHerck as saying, “We’re calling them objects for a reason. What we are seeing are very, very small objects that produce a very, very low radar cross-section,” he added.

We should know more about the objects after the remnants of the last three objects have been recovered.

The U.S. military had never shot down an object in American airspace before taking out a Chinese balloon off South Carolina earlier this month. Now it’s becoming a near-daily occurrence. https://t.co/Bj81NOt78F

— Boston Herald (@bostonherald) February 13, 2023

See:

• What we know about the unidentified object shot down over Alaska

• Third UFO in North American airspace shot down this week

• U.S. Air Force F22 Raptor shoots down Chinese spy balloon over Atlantic Ocean

• Canadian, U.S. leaders meet to discuss NORAD modernization, Russia, Ukraine, China, more

North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) detected the fourth object Sunday morning and maintained visual and radar tracking of it. Based on its flight path and data, U.S. officials made a logical assumption connecting this object to the radar signal picked up over Montana, which flew in proximity to sensitive U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) sites.

According to the DoD, the path and altitude of the February 12 object raised concerns regarding potential hazards to civil aviation.  The location chosen for this shoot down afforded the opportunity to avoid impact to any people on the ground while improving chances for debris recovery. The DoD reported that there weren’t any indications of any civilians hurt or otherwise affected by this latest military action

Officials went o to say that there didn’t appear to be any military threat emanating from the object, but reiterated the fact that it posed a flight hazard to civil aviation, “and a threat due to its potential surveillance capabilities.”  Teams are working now to recover the remnants of the shot down object.

CNN reported Melissa Dalton, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Hemispheric Affairs, as saying that all of the airborne objects were taken down out of an “abundance of caution.”

“In light of the People’s Republic of China balloon that we took down last Saturday, we have been more closely scrutinizing our airspace at these altitudes, including enhancing our radar, which may at least partly explain the increase in objects that we detected over the past week,” Dalton said, referring to a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon taken down by F-22s off the coast of South Carolina last weekend.

For more on the fourth object to be shot down over North American airspace in the last eight days, see the video accompanying this article.

(Source: Department of Defense)

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