A weekend under high tension in the American sky. The airspace over Lake Michigan in the northern United States, temporarily closed for reasons related to “national defense”, has reopened, the regulator of American civil aviation (FAA) announced on Sunday.
“The FAA briefly closed a portion of the airspace over Lake Michigan to support Department of Defense operations. Airspace has been reopened,” the regulator said in a statement. Contacted by AFP, the Pentagon had not yet reacted.
Spying purposes?
The news comes as three flying objects, one described by Washington as one described by Washington as a Chinese spy balloon a Chinese spy balloon, were shot down in a week over the United States and Canada .
On Saturday, the airspace of the American state of Montana had been temporarily closed, but a fighter plane dispatched to investigate a “radar anomaly” had not identified a “flying object” according to the army.
The United States believes that the first object officially detected was a balloon controlled by the Chinese military and was part of a fleet sent by Beijing over more than 40 countries on five continents, for espionage purposes.
A new object shot down on Sunday
This Sunday, two elected officials announced that the United States military had shot down a new “object” over Lake Huron, the latest in mysterious flying objects that have placed authorities in the United States and Canada on high alert. .
This object, the fourth in just over a week, “has been shot down by US Air Force pilots and the National Guard,” tweeted Michigan Democrat Elissa Slotkin, while her colleague Jack Bergman spoke about an “object (…) decommissioned over Lake Huron”.