Security Of The United States Of Sky Is Questioned After The Appearance Of 4 Foreign Objects Who Falled Down

F-22 Raptor (Photo via www.af.mil)

JAKARTA - Four foreign objects in the sky in the United States were shot down by fighter aircraft. But for parliament, this raises a big question, is it true that the United States sky is sterile?

Reporting from the Washington Post, Monday 13 February, three of the foreign objects -- deemed to have violated Canadian and American airspace -- were dropped by the F-22. The fourth object was dropped by the F-16. All debris is being analyzed by experts for further details.

On January 28, a mysterious floating object entered American airspace. There was debate over whether the balloon should be dropped or not, at least until February 2.

On January 30, balloons entered Canadian airspace before drifting back over the United States on January 31 in North Idaho.

On February 1, President Biden authorized the military to lower balloons, instructing the Pentagon to act. With one missile, the F-22 Raptor shot down a balloon off the coast of South Carolina on February 4.

A pair of F-22 Raptors dropped an object the size of a small car on the northeastern coast of Alaska. President Biden was notified of the second object the day before and ordered an attack, said National Security Council spokesman John Kirby.

"Fightcrafts are sent to observe objects more closely, immediately determining that there are no pilots in them," he said.

The Pentagon said the object poses a threat to civilian air traffic because it operates at an altitude of 40,000 feet. Unlike balloons flying at an altitude of 60,000 to 65,000 feet.

An F-22 Raptor shot down a "high altitude aerial object" over Canada's Yukon region on Saturday, the military's third aircraft intercepted in eight days.

NORAD, an organization consisting of US and Canadian military personnel to guard North America's skies, first detected the object on Friday evening, and monitored by officials on Friday nights and Saturdays.

Canadian Defense Minister Anita Anand said the mysterious object was "cylinderical".

The Sidewinder AIM-9X missile was used to bring down objects after discussions between Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Anand, said the Air Force Brigadier General. General Patrick Ryder, a Pentagon spokesman.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he had spoken to Biden and ordered the object to be dropped after violating Canadian airspace.

Canadian and US planes wereuled, and the US F-22 managed to shoot at the object, Trudeau said.

The F-16 shot down an unidentified object at 14:42 a.m. on Sunday. Military officials considered the object not a threat and kept track of it across the peninsula over Michigan before shooting it fell.

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.