The first, a Defense Department official said, is most likely not a balloon - and it broke into pieces after it was shot down on Friday. Throughout the weekend, officials said they were still trying to determine what the three objects were.
“We have been more closely scrutinizing our airspace at these altitudes, including enhancing our radar, which may at least partly explain the increase in objects that we’ve detected over the past week,” Melissa Dalton, the assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense and hemispheric affairs, said at a news conference on Sunday evening. In other words, NORAD is picking up more incursions because it is looking for them, spurred on by the heightened awareness caused by the furor over the spy balloon, which floated over the continental United States for a week before an F-22 shot it down on Feb. As a result, the number of objects it detected increased sharply. and Canadian militaries are hypervigilant in flagging some objects that might previously have been allowed to pass.Īfter the transit of the spy balloon this month, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, adjusted its radar system to make it more sensitive. But what is certain is that in the wake of the recent incursion by a Chinese spy balloon, the U.S.
American officials do not know what the objects were, much less their purpose or who sent them.įor the second, it is not clear if there are suddenly more objects. There are no answers to the first question yet. There are two big questions around the episodes: What were the craft? And why does the United States appear to be seeing more suddenly, and shooting down more? Once military officials obtained visual confirmation, they ordered an F-16 to shoot it down over Lake Huron. Then a blip appeared Sunday over Montana, then Wisconsin and Michigan. On Saturday, military officials detected a radar blip over Montana, which then disappeared, leading them to conclude it was an anomaly. The latest object had first been spotted on Saturday over Montana, initially sparking debate over whether it even existed. The latest turn in the aerial show taking place in the skies above North America comes after a helter-skelter weekend involving what at times seemed like an invasion of unidentified flying objects. fighter jets shot down with missiles on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Pentagon and intelligence officials are trying to make sense of three unidentified flying objects over Alaska, Canada and Michigan that U.S. WASHINGTON - If the truth is out there, it certainly is not apparent yet.
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