BREAKING NEWS: FAA abruptly cancels 'National Defense Airspace' over Lake Michigan
Department of Defense press secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder provides insight on the downed object over Alaska and the Chinese spy balloon.Lake Michigan,The FAA has not clarified why it initially banned civilian air traffic from the area earlier Sunday only to open up the airspace hours later.
"I am in constant communication with NORCOM [sic] and they have just advised me that they have confidence there IS an object and it WAS NOT an anomaly. I am waiting now to receive visual confirmation. Our nation’s security is my priority," he wrote Sunday.NORAD had issued a statement Saturday saying that it"detected a radar anomaly and sent fighter aircraft to investigate."
"Those aircraft did not identify any object to correlate to the radar hits. NORAD will continue to monitor the situation," the statement continued.U.S. forces haul debris from China's surveillance balloon onto a boat off the coast of South Carolina.The U.S. has shot down three aircraft over North America in the past week, with the first being a Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina.
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