After several flying objects were shot down over the USA and Canada, the airspace over Lake Michigan was briefly closed on Sunday.
The US Air Traffic Control Authority (FAA) announced that the airspace over the lake in the north-west of the USA had been declared “national defense airspace”. The blocking was lifted shortly afterwards.
Launch of a flying object over Lake Huron
Congressman Jack Bergman wrote on Twitter that the US military shot down a flying object over Lake Huron on Sunday.
On Saturday evening, the airspace over the state of Montana in the north-west of the USA had already been closed due to a “radar anomaly”. In this case, too, the US military gave the all-clear after a short time, since no “object” matching the radar data had been identified.
A few hours earlier, an unidentified flying object had been shot down over Canada, north of Montana.
“Unidentified Object” shot down over Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the “unidentified object” was shot down by a US F-22 over northwestern Canada during a joint operation by Canadian and US fighter jets. Another unidentified flying object was shot down over the US state of Alaska on Friday.
The day-long overflight of a suspected Chinese spy balloon over the United States had previously led to a scandal between Washington and Beijing. The US fighter jet finally shot down the balloon on Saturday last week on the US east coast over the Atlantic.
Washington said on Wednesday that the downed balloon was one of a fleet of spy balloons that flew across five continents.
After the discovery of the balloon, China had denied the allegation of espionage. Instead, Beijing spoke of a civil balloon for meteorological purposes that had gone off course.
US officials have meanwhile firmly rejected this account several times and affirmed that it was a question of a spy balloon. (with AFP)
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