The US military shot down a flying object over Lake Huron along the Canadian border, US officials said, the third such incident in three days and a week after a Chinese balloon was shot down over the US.
Meanwhile, Canadian investigators are searching for the wreckage of an aircraft shot down by a US fighter jet over Canada on Saturday. “Teams of investigators are on site trying to locate and analyze the facility,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Sunday. Index.h .
He did not say what it was, only that it “poses a significant threat to the safety of civil aviation.” “The safety of the citizens is our top priority, which is why I have made the decision to demolish the unidentified building,” he added.
North America is on high alert for airspace violations after a Chinese hot air balloon appeared over the United States earlier this month. China denies it was used for espionage and says it was a civilian research ship and condemned the US for shooting it down last Saturday.
At least two more flying objects were shot down over North America over the weekend as military and intelligence officials focused on possible air threats.
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The question arises why so many unidentified objects have been discovered and destroyed over the United States in recent days.
One of the reasons the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has detected so many objects in recent days may be that the command has recently adjusted its rules and filters to better detect slower targets at a certain altitude, the source said. familiar with this issue. The situation was told by CNN.
“The filters were adjusted and expanded last week after a high-altitude object believed to be a Chinese spy balloon flew over the United States, sparking debate about the United States’ ability to detect and defend against any potentially dangerous objects entering its airspace.” . the source said.
CNN reports that the US was able to track the trajectory of a Chinese balloon before it entered US airspace and ended up shooting it down off the coast of South Carolina, in large part because the US intelligence community developed a method for tracking balloons last year. . using a specific set of signals they emit.
But NORAD’s priority was to detect fast-moving targets below a certain altitude where dangerous aircraft or certain missiles could fly. The narrower filters were supposed to allow NORAD and Defense officials to better process the mass of data collected every day, the source said.
“If they didn’t filter out slow moving targets, air defense early warning systems would pick up a lot of noise, like weather balloons and birds,” the source explained.
