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The US military shot down a flying object over Lake Huron near the Canadian border, US officials said today, as North American security forces have been on ...

China denies the first balloon was being used for surveillance and says it was a civilian research craft. A second was shot down over sea ice near Deadhorse, Alaska, on Friday. "And they're building quite a nuclear stockpile themselves." "They do appear somewhat trigger-happy," Mr Turner told CNN today. aircraft were scrambled, and a U.S. 11, 2023— U.S. Canadian and U.S. Speaking to Fox News, House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul said the balloon shot down over the South Carolina coast had been on a mission to get imagery of sensitive American nuclear sites. U.S. Two US officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the military had shot down the object but declined to say whether it resembled the large white Chinese balloon that was shot down earlier this month. Meanwhile, Canadian investigators are hunting for the wreckage of an unidentified flying object that was shot down by a US jet over Yukon territory yesterday. The US military shot down a flying object over Lake Huron near the Canadian border, US officials said today, as North American security forces have been on high alert for airborne threats.

A second unidentified object was shot down in Canadian airspace on Saturday, marking the third time in a week that US fighter jets have taken down objects ...

Ryder said Friday that they have “located a significant amount of debris so far that will prove helpful to our further understanding of this balloon and its surveillance capabilities.” The object was flying at 40,000 feet, which made it a risk to civilian traffic. “The leaders discussed the importance of recovering the object in order to determine more details on its purpose or origin.” The object was shot down approximately 100 miles from the Canada-United States border over Canadian territory in central Yukon,” she said. And then we need to invest,” the Ohio Republican added. “I think our military, our intelligence are doing a great job, present and future. Turner’s Democratic counterpart on the Intelligence panel, Connecticut Rep. At the time, those planes did not identify any object to correlate to the radar hits, which led NORAD and NORTHCOM to believe it was an anomaly. But on Sunday, defense officials reacquired the radar contact and detected the object flying over Wisconsin and then Michigan. The path of the object and its altitude raised concerns that it could pose a threat to civilian aircraft, but it did not pose a military threat to anyone on the ground, the official said. Last weekend, a Chinese surveillance balloon [was taken down by F-22s](https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/04/politics/china-spy-balloon-us-latest/index.html) off the coast of South Carolina. When we can recover the debris, we will have more for you,” she said Sunday

The mission by US fighter jets off the shores of Michigan and close to the Canadian border came after they separately shot down unidentified aerial objects over ...

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'Chinese were caught lying',' says Senate majority leader as US and Canadian military scramble to recover pieces.

“I would prefer them to be trigger happy than to be permissive,” he told CNN’s State of the Union. As a sign of the jitters, late on Saturday night, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) closed parts of Montana’s airspace to air traffic after a “radar anomaly” was reported. Fishermen in the surrounding area had been told to be alert, according to the reports. Republicans were critical of the Pentagon’s decision to allow the Chinese balloon to fly across the heartlands of America before bringing it down, though they have been less forthright about explaining how it was that at least three suspected Chinese spying vessels entered US airspace under Donald Trump’s previous presidential administration apparently undetected. Additionally, on Sunday, the FAA similarly restricted civilian air traffic over Lake Michigan as there were local reports of military jets in the area but lifted them after a brief time. The balloon, flying at 60,000ft, was tracked by US military for several days as it traversed the national airspace, having initially been spotted off the coast of Alaska on 28 January. Some debris from the first balloon to be destroyed, the largest of the three objects, was shot down on 4 February about six miles off the South Carolina coast. A third search is being carried out in treacherous conditions off the coast of Alaska near Prudhoe Bay, a major oil drilling community. The object, described as cylindrical, had been flying at 40,000ft in Canadian territory and was considered a risk to civilian air traffic. He called it “wild” that the US government had no idea about the balloon spying program until just “a few months ago”. Definitive answers would have to wait for the debris to be recovered, the official said. He put the finger of blame firmly on

Members of Congress say they have not been briefed about four high-altitude objects downed in the airspace above the U.S. and Canada.

He said he suspects that since the objects were downed in remote areas, there is not a lot of information to share yet. Jim Himes, D-Conn., said members of Congress were given a top-secret briefing about the Chinese spy balloon, but that lawmakers have not been directly briefed about the second or third incidents. The following day, Canadian Prime Minister [Justin Trudeau](https://www.cnbc.com/justin-trudeau/) said that he worked with President [Joe Biden](https://www.cnbc.com/joe-biden/) to order a U.S. "I am waiting now to receive visual confirmation," he wrote in a tweet. [confirmed in a tweet Sunday](https://twitter.com/RepJackBergman/status/1624868047780515841) that he had been in contact with the Department of Defense regarding the operation in the Great Lakes region. "From the press conference we saw, it does seem like they took this action without a real understanding for what they were going after." American fighter jets have shot down four high-altitude objects in the airspace above the U.S. airspace over Lake Huron in the State of Michigan," according to a statement by the Pentagon on Sunday. [suspected Chinese spy balloon](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/04/us-military-prepares-to-take-down-suspected-chinese-surveillance-balloon.html?&qsearchterm=ashley%20capoot) that had been transiting across the country for several days. - The White House on Friday announced a second object had been shot down over Alaska, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Saturday a U.S. He said the U.S. military shot down a fourth unidentified object Sunday and expects to recover it.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told ABC's This Week that he was briefed on Saturday night by President Joe Biden's national security adviser, Jake ...

And the military and the intelligence are focused like a laser on first gathering and accumulating the information, then coming up with a comprehensive analysis.” It was shot down on February 4 off the South Carolina coast after it had traversed the United States. The United States believes the unidentified objects shot down by American fighter jets over Canada and Alaska were balloons, though smaller than the China balloon downed over the Atlantic Ocean last weekend, it was revealed on Sunday.

The U.S. military shot down an unidentified object flying above Michigan on Sunday, making it the fourth airborne object downed by American forces in just ...

would “probably be able to piece together” the entire balloon to learn more. Schumer continued to defend the Biden administration’s timing on shooting down the first balloon as a different situation. this month, the Biden administration downed an unidentified cylindrical object over Alaskan airspace on Friday, and — “When we can recover the debris, we will have more for you.” She added in a later tweet: “We’re all interested in exactly what this object was and its purpose.” aircraft to investigate and the object was taken down in U.S. Northern Command, said he was certain that the initial episode, the downing of a Chinese surveillance balloon off the U.S. “We unequivocally support this action, and we’ll continue to work with the U.S. The U.S. “Today, a high-altitude object was detected in U.S. That effort involves “more closely scrutinizing our airspace … Glen VanHerck, commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says recovery teams are searching for the object shot down over his country's territory to work out what its purpose ...

[Click to subscribe to the Sky News Daily wherever you get your podcasts](https://podfollow.com/skynewsdaily) [unknown object flying in its airspace](https://news.sky.com/story/us-shoots-down-unknown-object-flying-in-airspace-near-alaska-12807818) off the coastline of Alaska on the orders of Mr Biden. The White House said Mr Biden and Mr Trudeau would continue close coordination to "defend our airspace", adding in a statement: "The leaders discussed the importance of recovering the object in order to determine more details on its purpose or origin." In the US, the Pentagon said that the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) had spotted the object over the coast of Alaska late on Friday evening. She described it as cylindrical in shape but said it was smaller than the Chinese balloon shot down off the coast of South Carolina in the US a week ago. Meanwhile, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said recovery teams were searching for the object shot down over his country's territory to work out what its purpose was.

OTTAWA/WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Canadian investigators are hunting for the wreckage of an unidentified flying object that was shot down by a U.S. jet ...

U.S. On Saturday, the U.S. Republican lawmaker Mike Turner, who serves on the U.S. The first object was a balloon shot down off the coast of South Carolina on Feb. And a third object was destroyed over [Canada's Yukon](/world/us/us-still-gives-no-details-about-alaska-ufo-new-object-seen-over-canada-2023-02-11/) on Saturday with investigators still hunting for the wreckage. China denies the first balloon was being used for surveillance and says it was a civilian research craft. It can be brutally cold in the winter, but temperatures are unusually mild for this time of year, which could ease the recovery effort. officials identified the first object as a Chinese surveillance balloon, and the detection has strained U.S. On Friday, a second object was shot down over sea ice near Representative Debbie Dingell, one of several Michigan lawmakers who applauded the military for downing the object. On President Joe Biden's order, a U.S. F-16 fighter shot down the object at 2:42 p.m.

U.S. fighter jets shot down yet another “unidentified object” on Sunday—this time over Lake Huron—marking the third time they have taken down an object over ...

[American](https://twitter.com/RepJackBergman/status/1624868047780515841) and [Canadian](https://twitter.com/AnitaAnandMP/status/1624898728057311232) government officials tweeted that yet another object had been taken down over U.S. On Saturday, once the object reached Canadian airspace, it was shot down by a short-range missile (an AIM-9X) near central Yukon, according to officials. Department of Defense confirmed in a [statement](https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3296111/statement-on-todays-actions-by-north-american-aerospace-defense-command/) that an American F-16 shot down an object over Lake Huron. While no other information has yet been released, officials know that the Chinese balloon that was shot down on Feb. [reportedly](https://time.com/6253418/chinese-balloon-map-sightings/) seen making their way to Texas, Florida and Guam—which officials discovered after U-2 spy planes [captured photos and collected electronic data](https://time.com/6254318/chinese-balloon-spy-equipment-antennas/) of the recent Chinese spy balloon before it was shot down. On Saturday, another “unidentified object” was shot down by a U.S. He added that the object “posed a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight.” It was initially found in American airspace and then later moved into Canadian territory before being shot down by an F-22 on orders from President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. On Friday, a separate unidentified object, which was flying at 40,000 feet, was shot down near Alaska’s waters “out of an abundance of caution,” according to White House spokesman John F. Kirby also told reporters that the object was much smaller than the 200 ft. 4, as President Biden wanted to wait for the object to reach water to prevent pounds of debris from endangering Americans’ homes and lives. and sent F-22 stealth fighter jets to the area.

Downing of Chinese balloon off the US coast has been followed by three incidents, raising questions about North American security.

Beijing denounced the downing of the first balloon, saying it “seriously violated international practice”. [downed a “high-altitude airborne object” over Canada’s central Yukon territory](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/11/new-unidentified-object-shot-down-over-canada-says-trudeau), about 100 miles (160km) from the US border, saying it posed a threat to civilian flight. Some analysts say it may be the start of a major Chinese surveillance effort targeting foreign military capabilities ahead of possible acute tensions over Taiwan in coming years. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is taking custody of the debris for analysis. “Now, of course, we’re looking for them. China insisted the balloon was conducting weather research.