The US closed its airspace near the border with Canada for the first time | Americas

Lake Michigan. (Source: Illinois News Bureau)

On February 12, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) closed the airspace over Lake Michigan near the border with Canada for a short time.

This is the first time US authorities close the airspace here.

On Twitter, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) announced the closure of the region’s airspace. Lake Michigan is to ensure the safety of air traffic in the area of ​​operation of NORAD.

Flight Restriction Order temporary in this area was later removed.

[Mỹ đóng cửa một phần không phận bang Montana do vật thể lạ]

A day earlier, US authorities also closed Montana airspace and the US military deployed fighter jets to the area to investigate a strange object there.

However, NORAD later said that the pilots did not detect any unusual problems.

On the same day, February 12, US media, citing a source from an official and the US Congress, said that the US military shot down an unidentified flying object over Lake Huron on the followingnoon of February 12 (local time) in Ho Chi Minh City. near the Canadian border.

This incident marks the third day in a row that an unidentified object has been shot down in North American airspace, following similar moves in the Yukon region, Northern Canada, on 11 February and in the airspace. Alaska on February 10.

Currently, the US and Canada are searching for fragments of these downed objects.

Speaking on US television channel ABC, US Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer said US officials believe the flying objects shot down in Alaska and Yukon were hot air balloons.

The incident occurred in the context that a US fighter jet on February 4 shot down a Chinese hot air balloon that flew over US airspace off the coast of Carolina, in the Atlantic Ocean.

China’s Foreign Ministry said the balloon was used for scientific research purposes, mainly meteorological research.