(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Two U.S. representatives from Michigan said the U.S. Air Force downed an object above Lake Huron Sunday, shortly after the Federal Aviation Administration announced it briefly closed some airspace above Lake Michigan.
It was not immediately clear whether the action was connected to the recent spate of large surveillance balloons spotted over North America over the last eight days. Airspace over central Montana was closed on Saturday after a radar detected an abnormality.
Here’s what we know.
Around 11 a.m. Sunday, the FAA and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) closed some airspace above Lake Michigan near Wisconsin, according to a NORAD press release.
Hours later, Slotkin, who represents portions of central Michigan in Congress, tweeted that she received a call from the Department of Defense. She shared that “our military has an extremely close eye on the object above Lake Huron.”
Rep. Jack Bergman, who represents northern Michigan and its Upper Peninsula, tweeted at about 2:30 p.m. that the U.S. military had “decommissioned” another object over Lake Huron.
“The American people deserve far more answers than we have,” Bergman said.
Slotkin again tweeted that the object was downed by pilots with the U.S. Air Force and National Guard.
There was no update on the purpose of the objects, nor was there any information regarding where the objects came from.
“As long as these things keep traversing the U.S. and Canada, I’ll continue to ask for Congress to get a full briefing based on … the wreckage,” Slotkin tweeted.
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(The Associated Press contributed to this story.)
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