Lake Huron

(FOX 2) - Was it a balloon? A drone? Something more nefarious? The military wasn't very specific when describing the UFO shot down by a fighter jet over ...

[four separate objects](https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/us-shoots-down-objects-alaska-canada-balloons) that had been over American airspace in the past eight days. and Canadian security, while Elissa Slotkin said there was much still to understand from the object, and that hopefully questions would be answered after it's in possession of the military. military](https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/unidentified-object-shot-down-over-lake-huron-everything-we-know-about-it) over Lake Huron this weekend, it was not a national security concern. And while the U.S. The military wasn't very specific when describing the UFO shot down by a fighter jet over Lake Huron this weekend. The head of NORAD and U.S.

Authorities from the United States and Canada were working together Monday to recover debris from an unidentified aerial object that was shot down Sunday ...

[shot down at least four aerial objects](https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/politics/2023/02/12/sen-schumer-says-2-downed-objects-believed-to-be-balloons/), starting with a Chinese spy balloon on Feb. The exact location of where the object was shot down was not provided. Gretchen Whitmer only said that the object was “near our airspace.” and Canada were working on a joint operation to recover pieces of the downed object from Lake Huron. Still, NORAD has the authority to shoot down an object of concern, and President Joe Biden Elissa Slotkin said the object near the state’s airspace was not believed to pose an immediate threat.

One of the Expedition 36 crew members aboard the Earth-orbiting International Space Station on July 11 captured this high oblique view of Lake Michigan (left) ...

Defense officials said the object was likely the same one picked up over Montana days earlier. John James (R-MI 10) said the incident "highlights the essential function of Selfridge Air National Guard Base" in Harrison Township north of Detroit. "We worked closely with the FAA to clear out the airspace. and Canada will work together to find the wreckage. The FAA told Michigan Radio in a statement that the closures were "to support Department of Defense activities." "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." James is one of the legislators that We need the facts about where they are originating from, what their purpose is, and why their frequency is increasing," Dingell said. "The object has been downed by pilots from the U.S. I gave directions specifically to the pilots to use their visual acuity to check for mariners on the ground, airplanes in the air, (and) to clear with their radars as well," he said. Air Force and National Guard," she There are no indications of any civilians hurt or otherwise affected," the department said.

A unidentified object has been shot down by U.S. forces over Michigan's Lake Huron, according to the Pentagon. It's the fourth aerial shootdown in just over ...

[in Canada's Yukon territory](https://www.npr.org/2023/02/11/1156347424/us-military-shot-down-unidentified-object-canada) on Saturday, and the downing of "a high altitude airborne object" off [of the northern coast of Alaska](https://www.npr.org/2023/02/10/1156114384/u-s-shoots-down-high-altitude-object-over-alaska) on Friday. "I'm confident that they are very unlikely to have the kinds of surveillance capabilities that the Chinese balloon that was shot down had," Himes said. also took down a [Chinese spy balloon](https://www.npr.org/2023/02/09/1155786971/chinese-spy-balloon-fbi) off the South Carolina coast on Feb. The airborne object — flying about 20,000 feet above the lake waters — was shot down by an F-16 fighter jet with a missile on Sunday afternoon, at the direction of President Biden and based on the recommendations of military leadership, Pentagon Press Secretary Brig. forces over Lake Huron, according to the Department of Defense. Pat Ryder said in a statement.

Hours after Lake Michigan airspace was closed, Wisconsin-based fighter jets shot down a small object flying over Lake Huron. Here's what we know.

Sometime Sunday afternoon, as it was over Lake Huron, the object was shot down by an F-16 fighter jet. Information about the flying object from defense officials has been sparse. The object had been flying at about 20,000 feet over Lake Huron in a path and altitude that raised concerns about it being a hazard to civilian aviation, according to Air Force Brig. Purchase of replacement Large Power Transformers is a must to protect the nation’s electrical grid," he added. warplanes have shot down aircraft over or near the United States, VanHerck said. Great work by all who carried out this mission both in the air and back at headquarters," she said. The object was first detected by radar late Saturday afternoon about 70 miles north of the U.S. Glen VanHerck, the commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Pat Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary. The flying object was shot down Sunday over Lake Huron After the Lake Michigan airspace was reopened, the FAA and military closed airspace over Lake Huron to the east. What we know about the flying object that was shot down over Lake Huron on Sunday

Officials with the 180th Fighter Wing said Monday they were not involved in shooting down an unknown object over Lake Huron Sunday.

Next steps are to recover the wreckage and figure out what the object was, and where it came from.

There's a time to talk, and a time not to talk." Keep a few secrets from the citizens and keep a few secrets from the news media. It reportedly came into the United States over Alaska in January, and then floated across the country over Idaho and then to the Carolinas. "When unknowns come up, we as human beings try to understand it and that's where a lot of conspiracy theories come from," Stamps said Monday. When the time is not ready, I'd say go ahead and keep a few secrets. Tim Walberg, R-Tipton — who said "we must continue to defend our airspace and investigate these incidents" — began wondering whether there might be a connection between the object being shot down, even though we don't know it's Chinese in origin, is related to Ford's plans to build a massive electric vehicle factory with a Chinese partner in Marshall. [Gerald Ford urged Congress to investigate](https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/document/0054/4525586.pdf) a "rash of reported sightings of unidentified flying objects" in Michigan. The government, Kirby added, does not know who owns the three other objects that were shot down. Until we know for sure what was blasted out of the sky Sunday over Lake Huron, expect some theories — a lot of theories. Mark Rodeghier, the scientific director of the Center for UFO Studies in Chicago. In those cases, he said, the aircraft sensors went haywire. "A rumor develops where there is inadequate information about an important topic.

Last week, DOD News reported that an Air Force F-22 fighter jet fired an AIM-9X Sidewinder to take down a “high-altitude object” off the Alaskan coast on Friday ...

The airborne object was linked to a radar signal detected over Montana, indicating that the object flew near sensitive defense locations. [ put down](https://executivegov.com/2023/02/us-government-takes-down-chinese-surveillance-balloon-with-fighter-aircraft/) a [ high-altitude surveillance balloon](https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3288535/statement-from-secretary-of-defense-lloyd-j-austin-iii/) belonging to China off the coast of South Carolina. [Department of Defense](https://executivegov.com/?s=dod) leadership, the object was brought down due to concerns about its [path and altitude](https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3296111/statement-on-todays-actions-by-north-american-aerospace-defense-command/), the DOD said in a statement.

Walz says the 148th Fighter Wing, an Air National Guard fighter unit known as the Bulldogs, took off from Madison, Wisconsin to shoot down the object as part of ...

officials downed a "high-altitude object" flying over Alaska on Friday, and an unidentified object was shot down by Canada on Saturday. Sunday's shootdown marked the third unidentified object to be shot down over the U.S. downed a balloon over the coast of South Carolina that had drifted across the U.S. high-altitude balloons have flown in its airspace during the past year](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/china-us-balloons-airspace-surveillance/) without its permission, following Washington's accusation that Beijing operates a fleet of surveillance balloons around the world. That balloon had originated in China, and the U.S. 4, the U.S.

The airborne object — flying about 20,000 feet above the lake waters — was shot down by an F-16 fighter jet with a missile on Sunday afternoon, at the direction ...

[in Canada’s Yukon territory](https://www.npr.org/2023/02/11/1156347424/us-military-shot-down-unidentified-object-canada) on Saturday, and the downing of “a high altitude airborne object” off [of the northern coast of Alaska](https://www.npr.org/2023/02/10/1156114384/u-s-shoots-down-high-altitude-object-over-alaska) on Friday. “I’m confident that they are very unlikely to have the kinds of surveillance capabilities that the Chinese balloon that was shot down had,” Himes said. also took down a [Chinese spy balloon](https://www.npr.org/2023/02/09/1155786971/chinese-spy-balloon-fbi) off the South Carolina coast on Feb. The airborne object — flying about 20,000 feet above the lake waters — was shot down by an F-16 fighter jet with a missile on Sunday afternoon, at the direction of President Biden and based on the recommendations of military leadership, Pentagon Press Secretary Brig. forces over Lake Huron, according to the Department of Defense. Pat Ryder said in a statement.

Efforts are underway to recover remnants of an object shot down over Lake Huron by a U.S. fighter jet — the third object downed over North America since a ...

The object entered the airspace over Montana and drifted eastward before being taken down at 2:42 p.m. Glen VanHerck, commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Saturday when it was in Canadian airspace about 70 miles north of the U.S. Radar at the North American Aerospace Defense Command, better known as NORAD, first detected the airborne object at 4:45 p.m. fighter jet — the third object downed over North America since a U.S. Efforts are underway to recover remnants of an object shot down yesterday over Lake Huron by a U.S.

Before the object was shot down, Pentagon officials confirmed that it was hovering 20000 feet in the air above the U.P..

that your defense system is at work and functioning,” Bergman said. In a statement, the 115th Fighter Wing unit based in Madison said, “Based on its flight path and data we can reasonably connect this object to the radar signal picked up over Montana, which flew in proximity to sensitive DOD sites. “We still are not sure exactly what it was, who owned it, or what its operation was. [It was the fourth such downing in eight days](https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/2023/02/13/us-defends-decision-shoot-down-3-unidentified-objects/) and the latest military strike in an extraordinary chain of events over U.S. [Sunday](https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/2023/02/12/norad-lake-michigan-air-space-restrictions-lifted/). Before the object was shot down, Pentagon officials confirmed that it was hovering 20,000 feet in the air above the U.P.

Another unidentified object was found flying over the U.S. on Sunday, this one was shot down over Lake Huron; It was the fourth flying object shot out of ...

The object shot down over Lake Huron was flying much lower than previous objects. Officials are still trying to determine if the objects shot down in recent days came from the People’s Republic of China, which is where a balloon shot down earlier this month came from. We report because the news impacts all of us. “The increasing incidents of unidentified objects, the latest over Lake Huron in Michigan airspace, are disturbing,” U.S. [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/12/politics/lake-huron-high-altitude-object/index.html). Officials determined that it was likely the same object that was found flying over Montana one day earlier, which raised concerns because it flew so close to Department of Defense sites, the department “The People deserve the truth and this cannot happen again.” was tracking down an object flying over the Great Lakes state. has shot down this month, the others were in South Carolina, Alaska and Canada. Debbie Dingell (D-Ann Arbor) said in a press Coast Guard, they are also involved in trying to locate the debris right now.” President Biden ordered the object to be taken down at 2:42 p.m.

LAKE HURON, (WPBN/WGTU) -- 24 hours after a flying object was shot down over Lake Huron, questions still remain unanswered.While this was the fourth ...

The first missile fired at an object over Lake Huron missed, and the UFO shot down over Canada was a "small, metallic balloon."

Canadian officials are leading that investigation, though the FBI was embedded with them, according to the memo. "We continue to refine detection settings, and that won't stop just because we have identified these smaller objects," the official said. "The truth is that most of our sensors and most of what we were looking for didn't look like balloons. Jim Himes of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday. The object crossed near "US sensitive sites" before it was shot down, the memo said. Glen VanHerck told reporters on Sunday that acquiring and targeting the object was difficult because of its small size.

A first missile shot at an unidentified flying object over Lake Huron on Sunday missed its target, the Pentagon's top general said Tuesday, highlighting the ...

airspace](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/05/china-spy-balloon-gop/?itid=lb_more-on-the-flying-objects-shot-down-over-us-canada-_10) before, and a top U.S. general said [past incursions by Chinese balloons went undetected by the Pentagon](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/02/06/chinese-balloons-failed-detection/?itid=lb_more-on-the-flying-objects-shot-down-over-us-canada-_11). [China accused the United States of an “overreaction”](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/02/05/china-us-balloon-reaction-diplomacy/?itid=lb_more-on-the-flying-objects-shot-down-over-us-canada-_8) and reiterated claims that the airship was a civilian vessel that drifted off course. [vast surveillance program](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/02/07/china-spy-balloon-intelligence/?itid=lb_more-on-the-flying-objects-shot-down-over-us-canada-_4) run by the People’s Liberation Army. Here’s [what we know about the high-altitude objects](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/02/12/us-canada-unidentified-objects-spy-balloon/?itid=lb_more-on-the-flying-objects-shot-down-over-us-canada-_3). The first failed to detect the airborne object, so it lost track of the target and “did not fuse,” the official said. “We go to great lengths to make sure that the airspace is clear and the backdrop is clear … military officials said in interviews that a variety of options are under discussion for future incidents, including the deployment of slow-moving unmanned aircraft to respond or the use of sea-launched missiles, such as the Navy’s SM-6, which would allow the military to pick off unidentified objects before they are over U.S. Milley said on Tuesday that the most important factor for the U.S. military officials to confront limitations in their detection equipment and weaponry, and weigh how they should respond to the onset of a new homeland security mission. That seems to me to be a bit of a gap.” Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, acknowledged that a U.S.