U.S. fighter jets shot down yet another “unidentified object” on Sunday—this time over Lake Huron in Michigan—marking the third time they have taken down an object over the past three days, and the fourth in a little over a week
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On Friday, American aircrafts shot down a separate unidentified object near Alaska’s airspace, though it is not clear what the object was or if it was related to China’s surveillance balloon program. On Saturday, another unidentified object was shot down over Canadian territory. Both the objects, the one shot down Friday and the one in Canada on Saturday, were flying at approximately 40,000 feet, which posed a potential risk to passenger planes. And on Sunday, Canadian and U.S.
Chinese officials maintain that the initial spy balloon was a weather-monitoring device that accidentally entered American airspace, but the Biden administration’s assessment of the balloon’s remnants found that it had propellers that could alter its direction.China has engaged in, affecting more than 40 countries thus far.On Jan. 28, a 200-foot-tall spy balloon first traveled above the Aleutian Islands near Alaska before it broke into the continental U.S. on Jan. 31.
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