Lake Michigan UFO: ‘octagonal’ object shot down over Lake Huron after FAA closes airspace to Department of Defense activities

CHICAGO — Another high-rise object was shot down Sunday, this time over Lake Huron, three U.S. officials confirmed to ABC News. According to one of the officials, the object was shot down by a US military aircraft.

This is an evolving story that will be updated

A senior administration official told ABC News that President Biden ordered the Sunday facility to be shot down “out of great caution and on the advice of military leaders.”

The object shot down over Lake Huron was picked up by radar over Montana on Saturday, the official said.

The object was octagonal in shape, unmanned and moved at an altitude of 20,000 feet. The official also said there was no sign of the possibility of surveillance, but they could not rule it out.

Michigan Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin tweeted Sunday that she received a call from the Department of Defense saying, “Our military is monitoring the Lake Huron facility very closely.”

Around 3:00 p.m., she tweeted again that the object had been shot down by US Air Force and National Guard pilots.

“Excellent work by everyone who carried out this mission both in the air and at headquarters. We are all interested in what exactly this object was and what its purpose is, ”Slotkin wrote.

Republican Jack Bergman of Michigan also confirmed the operation on Sunday, tweeting: “The US military has decommissioned another ‘site’ over Lake Huron.”

“I appreciate the decisive actions of our fighter pilots,” he said.

Temporary flight restrictions were placed in airspace over portions of Lake Michigan earlier Sunday for national defense reasons, according to a Federal Aviation Administration notice.

The notice stated that the FAA had temporarily designated parts of the area as “national defense airspace”. The North American Aerospace Defense Command said the restrictions were put in place around 11 a.m.

“The FAA briefly closed some of the airspace over Lake Michigan to support Department of Defense operations. Airspace has been reopened,” the FAA said in a statement shortly before 1:00 p.m.

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“In cooperation with the Federal Aviation Administration, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has implemented a temporary airspace restriction over Lake Michigan at approximately 12 noon EST on February 12, 2023, to help ensure the safety of air traffic in the area during time of Operation NORAD. Since then, the temporary restriction on flights has been lifted,” NORAD said in a Twitter post.

NORAD did not immediately respond to questions about the nature of these operations.

The operation marks the third day in a row that an unidentified object has been shot down in North American airspace. An unidentified object was shot down over northern Canada on Saturday. On Friday, an unidentified object was shot down by an American F-22 in Alaska airspace.

According to NORAD, on Saturday evening, a temporary restriction on flights over Montana was introduced. The time limit was put in place after NORAD detected a “radar anomaly”. Planes were sent to investigate the incident but saw nothing.

It also follows last weekend when a suspected Chinese spy balloon was shot down by an F-22 off the coast of South Carolina.

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