The Pentagon said the unidentified object shot down Sunday afternoon (12) by an F-16 fighter jet over Lake Huron, near the Canadian border, appears to have traveled close to US military installations and posed not only a threat for civil aviation, but also a potential surveillance tool.
“Based on its flight path and data, we can reasonably connect this object to the radar signal picked up over Montana, which flew close to sensitive Department of Defense sites,” the statement said.
“We did not assess it to be a military threat to anything on the ground, but we did assess it to be a risk and a threat due to its potential surveillance capabilities. Our team will now work to recover the object in an effort to learn more about it.”
Third case in three days
Sunday’s incident represents the third incident of unidentified flying equipment being shot down in U.S. and Canadian airspace in the last three days.
The first was shot down in northern Canada on Saturday (11). On Friday (10), another was shot down in Alaskan airspace by a US F-22.
Also, this past weekend, an alleged Chinese surveillance balloon was shot down by F-22s off the coast of South Carolina.
Other countries
Also on Sunday, China said it had identified an unidentified flying object near the city of Rizhao, on the east coast of the country, according to the Chinese state-run newspaper “Global Times”.
Uruguay, on the other hand, communicated that images of atypical lights in the sky of Termas de Almirón, near the city of Paysandú, were reported and that an investigation division has already been activated to determine the facts.
(With information from Reuters. Published by Fábio Munhoz)
Source: CNN Brasil
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