Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer said he believed the two aerial objects shot down by US fighter jets were balloons, but “much smaller” than the one brought down over the Atlantic last week.
| The US military shot down an octagonal object over Lake Huron near the Canadian border, US officials said on Sunday , the fourth object downed this month as North American security forces have been on high alert for airborne threats.
Officials said the latest object was shot down using a Sidewinder missile in US airspace at an altitude of 6100 metres, where it could have potentially interfered with domestic air traffic.Michigan congresswoman Elissa Slotkin, who represents a district near where the incident took place, said pilots from the US Air Force and National Guard shot down the object. “Great work by all who carried out this mission,” she wrote on Twitter.
“The security of citizens is our top priority and that’s why I made the decision to have that unidentified object shot down,” he said, adding that it had posed a danger to civilian aircraft. On Sunday, the Federal Aviation Administration briefly closed space above Lake Michigan. On Saturday, the US military scrambled fighter jets in Montana to investigate a radar anomaly there.
US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told US broadcaster ABC that US officials think two of the latest objects were smaller balloons than the original one.The White House said only that the recently downed objects “did not closely resemble” the Chinese balloon, echoing Senator Schumer’s description of them as “much smaller.”
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