F-16 Shooting Falling 'Foreign Objects' Going Near The Pentagon

Photo of Air Force Staff Sigt. Skyer Combs

JAKARTA - The US military shot down a "foreign object" in the air at close range. The drone was shot over Lake Huron on Sunday, February 12 afternoon.

The US Department of Defense defines the object as not a military threat to anything on land.

"However, the US still chooses to shoot down after tracing it over Lake Huron because it can pose a danger to air traffic," said General Glen D. VanHerck, who oversees the North American Space Defense Command (NORAD).

The debris fell on Lake Huron. Now the collection of debris is being handled by the FBI, reported by the Washington Post, Monday, February 13.

It was initially detected on the evening of Saturday 11 February, flying over the peninsula above the Michigan sky at an altitude of about 20,000 feet. This is an altitude and a path that could interfere with commercial flights.

The Pentagon admitted it had failed to capture the object on Saturday afternoon. When radar detected something suspicious 70 miles north of the US border in Canada, an F-15 fighter jet from Portland, Ore was delivered.

But they couldn't find the object as the darkness began to blanket. The object was detected once again by radar operators on Sunday over Wisconsin and then Michigan.

"Based on the flight path and data, we can naturally connect this object to radar signals taken over Montana, which flies near sensitive DOD sites," said Brigadier General PatrickRIDer, Pentagon spokesman.

The fighter tracked the object in eastern Wisconsin. Although deemed not a threat, the jet continued to observe while crossing the Michigan Upper Peninsula before shooting it down. The object was shot down by AIM-9X Sidewinder of the F-16 at 14:42 a.m. Sunday.

According to information gathered from senior Joe Biden administration officials, the object is depicted in the shape of an eight-scale structure without visible sensors or cameras.