The airborne object — flying about 20,000 feet above the lake waters — was shot down by an F-16 fighter jet with a missile on Sunday afternoon, at the direction of President Biden, Pentagon Press Secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said in a statement.
An F-16 fighter jet used a missile to take out an unidentified object over Michigan’s Lake Huron on Saturday. Here, a Belgian F-16 is pictured taking part in a NATO nuclear deterrence exercise in Belgium in October.
The path and altitude of object — which flew close to sensitive DOD sites and could have posed a risk to commercial aircraft — sparked concerns, the press secretary said. On Saturday, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said it detected a “radar anomaly” over Havre, Mont., after an aircraft investigation of radar hits failed to locate an object matching the hits.
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