(National Review) The U.S. military on Sunday shot down an unidentified airborne object over Michigan, marking the fourth such incident in a string that began with the Chinese spy balloon shot down off the South Carolina coast last weekend.
Michigan lawmakers issued statements on the incident and urged Congress to conduct comprehensive fact-finding for the public.
“The object has been downed by pilots from the US Air Force and National Guard. Great work by all who carried out this mission both in the air and back at headquarters. We’re all interested in exactly what this object was and it’s purpose,” Michigan Representative Elissa Slotkin tweeted. “As long as these things keep traversing the US and Canada, I’ll continue to ask for Congress to get a full briefing based on our exploitation of the wreckage.”
Representative Jack Bergman, a former Marine and pilot, tweeted: “I’ve been in contact with DOD regarding operations across the Great Lakes region today. The US military has decommissioned another ‘object’ over Lake Huron.”
“I appreciate the decisive action by our fighter pilots. The American people deserve far more answers than we have,” he said.
The military action Sunday comes after a part of Montana airspace was temporarily closed due to a “radar anomaly,” then later reopened. North American air defense then deployed fighter jets to investigate but could not find an object correlated with the anomaly, the military said. The radar development came after a U.S. F-22 fighter jet shot down a separate unidentified cylindrical object over the Yukon Territory in Canada on Saturday.
