A fighter plane was dispatched but did not see an object flying over Montana.
By AFP
UA fighter jet dispatched to investigate a ‘radar anomaly’ did not identify an ‘object’ flying over the US state of Montana after a temporary airspace closure on Saturday evening, the AFP reported. US army.
North American Air Defense “detected a radar anomaly and sent a fighter jet to investigate. This plane did not identify any object (allowing) to correlate the radar echoes”, indicated the North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad) and the American Northern Command, adding that they “will continue to monitor the situation”, a few hours after a Canadian-American operation having brought down an object over the Yukon (Canada).
The shooting down of a new “object” on Saturday comes a week after Washington destroyed a balloon off its Atlantic coast, which had flown over sensitive military sites and had been described by Beijing as a “civilian aircraft used in for research purposes, mainly meteorological”.
USA: the intrusion of the Chinese balloon was premeditated
Footage captured by US military aircraft shows that the Chinese balloon that flew over the United States last week was well equipped with spy tools and not intended for weather.
This diplomatic clash had led the head of American diplomacy, Antony Blinken, to postpone a rare visit to China.
The American authorities are still busy collecting the debris from the balloon in the Atlantic, near the coast of South Carolina.
