United States: a new flying “object” shot down in Michigan

Airspace over Lake Michigan in the northern United States, temporarily closed for "national defense" reasons, has reopened, the US civil aviation regulator (FAA) announced on Sunday

United States: a new flying “object” shot down in Michigan

Airspace over Lake Michigan in the northern United States, temporarily closed for "national defense" reasons, has reopened, the US civil aviation regulator (FAA) announced on Sunday. "The FAA briefly closed a portion of the airspace over Lake Michigan to support Department of Defense operations. Airspace has been reopened,” the regulator said in a statement.

It was an "octagonal device with strings hanging down", according to the same source. It had no visible nacelle and was unmanned.

The U.S. military has shot down a new "object" over Lake Huron, two lawmakers announced Sunday, the latest in mysterious flying objects that have authorities in the United States and Canada on high alert. This object, the fourth in just over a week, "has been shot down by US Air Force pilots and the National Guard," tweeted Michigan Democrat Elissa Slotkin, while her colleague Jack Bergman spoke about it. 'a decommissioned object over Lake Huron'.

The newly detected flying "object" was shot down on the orders of President Joe Biden and posed no "military threat" to US soil, a senior administration official said Sunday. "As a precaution and on the recommendation of military command, President Biden ordered that the unidentified object be shot down," the official said. "We assessed that there was no military threat to anything on the ground," he added.

The news comes as four flying objects, including one described by Washington as a Chinese spy balloon, were shot down in a week over the United States and Canada. On Saturday, airspace in the US state of Montana was temporarily closed, but a fighter jet dispatched to investigate a "radar anomaly" did not identify a flying "object" according to the military. The United States believes that the first object officially detected was a balloon controlled by the Chinese military and was part of a fleet sent by Beijing over more than 40 countries on five continents, for espionage purposes.