Four times in eight days, American aircraft shot down another high-altitude unidentified object
On Sunday (12th) local time, the United States military sent another fighter plane to shoot down a UFO over Lake Huron, near the Canadian border in Michigan. This is the fourth time that the United States military aircraft has carried out similar operations over the United States and Canada in the past eight days. Glenn van Heck, the North American Air Defense Command and the commander of the United States Northern Command, said on the same day that the military was still uncertain about the source country or physical and mechanical characteristics of the recently shot down flying objects.
The Pentagon confirmed the news in a statement the same day. Bloomberg quoted a senior government official as saying that Biden issued the order "out of caution" at the suggestion of military leaders.
According to the statement of the Pentagon, the US military sent an F-16 fighter to launch the AIM-9X "Diamondback" missile, and successfully shot down this aerial object flying at an altitude of about 20000 feet (about 6096 meters) over Lake Huron, because its path and height have attracted people's attention and fear that it may cause harm to civil aviation.
According to CNN, the North American Air Defense Command and the United States Northern Command found the object for the first time over Montana on the night of Saturday (11) local time, and sent fighter planes to investigate. At that time, no objects related to radar detection results were found, and military officials judged it as "abnormal" phenomenon.
The next morning, military officials again detected the object flying over Wisconsin and Michigan through radar, and finally decided to shoot it down. The Pentagon said in a statement that "according to its flight route and data, we can reasonably link this object with the radar signal received over Montana".
According to Bloomberg, the aforementioned senior American official said that the object was octagonal in structure, with ropes hanging on it, but there was no discernible payload. The official said that the government had no indication that the aircraft had surveillance capability, but it could not rule out this possibility.
Two people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg that the latest unidentified object flew at a lower altitude than the Chinese unmanned airship that had strayed into the US airspace and the flying object that had been shot down over Alaska and Canada on Friday and Saturday.
After the news of the object being shot down, Elissa Slotkin, a Democratic congressman of Michigan, and Jack Bergman, a Republican congressman of Michigan, "expressed concern" on social media, claiming that "the American people should get much more answers than we have".
Previously, the United States and Canada had hyped "unidentified objects breaking into the airspace". Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau announced on the 11th local time that a US F-22 fighter plane shot down a "UFO" flying into Canadian airspace under his command. The day before, American fighter jets shot down another unidentified flying object near the northern coast of Alaska, but still failed to recover its fragments.
According to CNN, Glenn van Huck, the commander of the North American Air Defense Command and the United States Northern Command, told reporters on the 12th that the United States military had no new information about the country of origin or physical and mechanical characteristics of the three objects shot down in the past three days, but they did not pose a physical or military threat to key infrastructure.
He added: "I don't intend to classify them as balloons. We call them objects for a reason. I can't classify the way they stay in the air. It may be a balloon with gas in its structure, or it may be a certain type of propulsion system. But it is obvious that they can stay at high altitude."
Van Heck also stressed that he would urge the media not to "attribute the shot down object to any specific country". When asked whether these objects were excluded from "extraterrestrial or extraterrestrial life", he said "no possibility has been excluded at present".
Therefore, no matter what it is, it should not be allowed to cause harm to the country and people.
