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Yet another unidentified object passing over the United States has been shot down – and this one was blasted just after it floated over the Upper Peninsula.
Pentagon officials said last night that they gave the order to bring down the object while it was still above the eastern U.P. yesterday afternoon. It was about 15 miles east of the peninsula when it was hit by a Sidewinder missile fired from a Wisconsin Air National Guard F-16 based in Madison. It landed in Canadian waters of Lake Huron.
Officials say the object was flying at an altitude of 20,000 feet, and may be the same object that was picked up earlier on radar over Montana.
Salvage operations are underway, in hopes of determining what the object was.
In a briefing with reporters, Gen. Glen D. VanHerck, commander of U.S. Northern Command and NORAD, said the object was smaller than the Chinese balloon that was recently shot down after passing over the U.S. He declined to categorize this object as a balloon, saying he didn’t know what its method of propulsion was. He also said he did not yet know whence it came.
U.S. Rep. Jack Bergman (R-Watersmeet), a former Marine Corps lieutenant general, said he appreciated the decisive action by our fighter pilots.
U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-Bloomfield Township), a former lieutenant commander in the Naval Reserve, said he was glad the object was neutralized over Lake Huron.
Both promised to press the Defense Department for more details.
