{"id":1845997,"date":"2023-02-14T07:49:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T12:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1845997"},"modified":"2023-02-14T07:50:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T12:50:04","slug":"new-details-emerge-about-unidentified-object-that-u-s-military-shot-down-over-lake-huron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-details-emerge-about-unidentified-object-that-u-s-military-shot-down-over-lake-huron\/","title":{"rendered":"New Details Emerge About Unidentified Object That U.S. Military Shot Down Over Lake Huron"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-details-emerge-about-unidentified-object-that-u-s-military-shot-down-over-lake-huron%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1845997&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>According to reports, the U.S. fighter plane that shot down an unidentified object above Lake Huron on Sunday missed its first shot and there&#8217;s no indication of where it went.<\/p>\n<p>Before it was shot down, the Air Force F-16 jet carrying the Air Force fired two Sidewinder AIM-9X missiles worth $472,000 at the target.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first Sidewinder heat-seeking missile missed the target,\u201d An official in defense <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/us-military-first-shot-unknown-octagonal-object-lake-huron-missed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Submitted<\/a> Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>The object was shot down at approximately 20,000 feet in U.S. Airspace near Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>Officials from the United States believe this to be the object detected late Saturday night in Montana by U.S. fighter planes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on its flight path and data we can reasonably connect this object to the radar signal picked up over Montana, which flew in proximity to sensitive DOD sites,\u201d The Pentagon issued a statement. \u201cWe did not assess it to be a kinetic military threat to anything on the ground, but assess it was a safety flight hazard and a threat due to its potential surveillance capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is not yet possible to locate any debris from the object.<\/p>\n<p>The object that was downed over Lake Huron happened a day following the Air Force&#8217;s downing of an object in Canada and just two days after the Air Force downed an object in Alaska. The Air Force downed a Chinese spy ball that was crossing the country from Montana through South Carolina on February 4.<\/p>\n<p>General Glen VanHerck of the United States Air Force, who is responsible for North American airspace, stated that officials in the USA seemed to be confident that the objects weren&#8217;t balloons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to categorize them as balloons. We\u2019re calling them objects for a reason,\u201d VanHerck stated. \u201cI\u2019m not able to categorize how they stay aloft. It could be a gaseous type of balloon inside a structure or it could be some type of a propulsion system. But clearly, they\u2019re \u2014 they\u2019re able to stay aloft.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>VenHerck said that U.S. officials considered trying to use the fighter jet\u2019s machine guns to shoot down the objects so that the objects would be better preserved after they were shot down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe assessed taking a gunshot yesterday in that event, as well as today, and the pilots in each situation felt that that was really unachievable because of the size, especially yesterday in the altitude, and also because of the challenge to acquire it visually because it\u2019s so small,\u201d VanHerck stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have taken extreme caution to ensure that we limit potential collateral damage, so today, we worked closely with the FAA to clear out the airspace,\u201d He added. \u201cI gave direction specifically to the pilots to use their visual acuity to check for mariners on the ground, airplanes in the air to clear with their radars as well. And when they were comfortable, that we can minimize collateral damage, they selected the best weapon today that was the AIM 9x [missile]. And they took the shot.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. fighter jet that shot down an unidentified object over Lake Huron on Sunday reportedly missed taking down the object with its first shot, and there is no sign of where the missile went. The Air Force F-16 jet that took down the object fired two $472,000 Sidewinder AIM-9X missiles at the target before &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1846000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4954,7548,18438,8211,4505,12579,4049,7238,18314],"class_list":["post-1845997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-details","tag-emerge","tag-huron","tag-lake","tag-military","tag-object","tag-shot","tag-u-s","tag-unidentified"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1845997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1846000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1845997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1845997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1845997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}