US Warplane Shoots Down Fourth Flying Object In Eight Days
The US military has shot down another unidentified object, the fourth object downed this month over US airspace.
The octagonal object was downed over Lake Huron near the Canadian border as North American security forces remain on high alert for airborne threats.
The New Daily reported two US officials as saying the military had shot down the object but declined to say whether it was similar to the large white Chinese balloon that was downed earlier in February.
The US Department of Defence said a US F-16 fighter jet shot down the latest unidentified object at the direction of President Joe Biden.
A senior US official was cited as saying the object had an octagonal structure with no discernible payload.
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The spokesman for the US Department of Defence Brigadier General Pat Ryder said the object was not assessed to be a military threat, but it was a flight hazard. He said:
We did not assess it to be a kinetic military threat to anything on the ground, but assess it was a safety flight hazard and a threat due to its potential surveillance capabilities.
Our team will now work to recover the object in an effort to learn more.
The object was recently detected over Montana, prompting the closure of US airspace.
It was shot down using a Sidewinder missile in US airspace at an altitude of 6100 metres, according to officials.
It was the fourth unidentified flying object to be destroyed over North America this month, straining US relations with China.
The first object was a balloon shot down off the coast of South Carolina on 4 February.
A second object was shot down on 10 February over sea ice near Deadhorse, Alaska.
A third object was destroyed over Canada’s Yukon on 11 February, with investigators still hunting for the wreckage.
The US says the Chinese balloon shot down on 4 February was a spy balloon but China said the object was monitoring the weather and accidentally strayed into US airspace.
