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The US shot down another flying object. It flew over the border area between Canada and the USA. What is known so far.
The US military shot down another flying object. The incident happened over Lake Huron, which lies in the border area between the USA and Canada, several US media, including the television stations CNN and ABC, reported on Sunday, citing security circles. There was no official information at first.
US fighter jets had already unidentified two on Friday and Saturday flying objects shot down: one off the coast of the US state of Alaska, the other over northern Canada. So far it is unclear what kind of objects they were, where they came from and what their goal was. The salvage of the remains of the flying objects should provide information.
Balloon over USA: China is suspected of espionage
After the first downing of a Chinese spy balloon that had been hovering over the United States for days on February 4, incidents over North America began to pile up dangerous flying objectsthat have been rendered harmless by the military.
After the US Air Force, on the orders of President Joe Biden, shot down an object the size of a small car off the coast of Alaska near Prudhoe Bay that was flying twelve kilometers high and thus endangering civil air traffic, a similar operation followed on Saturday; this time in close coordination with the government in Ottawa Canadian territory.
There, after consultations between US President Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, on Saturday over the Yukon Territory in the north “cylindrical” appearing object shot down by a US F-22 fighter with an AIM 9X missile. In both cases, the origin of the unmanned flying objects, their purpose and their exact shape are still unknown.
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USA: Flying objects posed a threat to airspace
military rescue teams tried at the weekend from the air and on the ground to find meaningful pieces of debris in the crash areas characterized by extreme arctic winter conditions.
Representing the governments in Washington and Ottawa, Canadian Defense Minister Anita Anand said it currently makes no sense to speculate about the origin of the flying objects. The fact is, however, that they posed a potential threat to civil air traffic, which was identified early on by the North American Air Defense Command (Norad).
Flying Objects: More “Anomaly” on Saturday night
On Saturday evening it looked as if a third incident imminent when the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) suddenly partially closed the airspace over the state of Montana on the Canadian border in favor of military operations.
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According to the Pentagon, there was one on the radar “Anomaly” been found. For clarification, fighter planes took off, but “could not identify any flying object that could be linked to the radar signals”. The block was lifted shortly thereafter, but the irritation remained.
This was mainly due to congressmen from Republicans (Rosendale) and Democrats (Tester), who declared on social networks that they were officially from one unidentified flying object been reported. Rosendale even claimed the search for the object would continue after dawn this Sunday. Which the Department of Defense later denied.
It is still unclear whether the latest incidents are related to the Chinese spy balloon that was shot down over the sea off Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, on President Biden’s instructions a week ago. (with dpa)
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