US shoots down another mystery object, this time near Canada border
- NORAD general says not ruling out aliens or any other explanation after octagonal object is shot down
- Downing over Lake Huron came after earlier objects over Alaska and Canada were shot out of the sky
US military fighter jets on Sunday shot down an octagonal object over Lake Huron, the Pentagon said, the latest incident since a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon put North American security forces on high alert.
It was the fourth flying object to be shot down over North America by a US missile in a little more than a week. China’s foreign ministry said it had no information on the latest three flying objects shot down by the United States.
US Air Force General Glen VanHerck, who is tasked with safeguarding US airspace, told reporters that the military has not been able to identify what the three most recent objects are, how they stay aloft, or where they are coming from.
“We’re calling them objects, not balloons, for a reason,” VanHerck, head of North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) and Northern Command, said.
VanHerck said he would not rule out aliens or any other explanation. “I’ll let the intel community and the counter-intelligence community figure that out,” he said.
Another defence official, speaking on condition of anonymity, subsequently said the military had not seen any evidence that the objects were extraterrestrial.