The United States military shot down a new high-altitude object flying over Lake Huron on Sunday, two lawmakers and the Pentagon said, the latest case of flying devices that has put authorities in Ottawa and Washington on alert.
The order was given by the president himself, Joe Biden, out of “precaution” and “on the recommendation of the military command,” said a senior official, who added that the object – described as an octagonal structure from which ropes hang – did not represent a “military threat” in the territory but it was a risk for civil aviation.
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The US aerospace command, NORAD, tracked the trajectory of the new object and the decision was made to shoot it down over Lake Huron “to prevent it from impacting people on the ground and at the same time improve the chances of its recovery,” the Pentagon reported in a statement. release.
It is the third “object” to be shot down in three days by the Americans in their country and in Canada, and the fourth in less than ten days, destroyed by a missile on February 4 after flying over part of the United States.
“Object has been shot down by United States Air Force and National Guard pilots,” tweeted Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, a state bordered on the north and east by the lake. Another Michigan lawmaker, Jack Bergman, said the US military had “deactivated” an object over Lake Huron in the north of the country.
“The American people deserve much more answers than we have,” Jack Bergman added on Twitter, reflecting the growing doubts in the country and in the political class about these events.
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The US Department of Defense called this fourth downed object “a threat because of its potential surveillance capabilities.”
The United States estimates that the first object shot down, a balloon, was part of a fleet of devices that Beijing has flying over 40 countries for espionage purposes.
The Chinese government assured that it was a civilian balloon used for research, mainly meteorological.
Washington shot down two more flying objects, without specifying what they were: one on Friday over Alaska and another on Saturday over Canada. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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