Sao Paulo – US authorities said an “unidentified object” was shot down this Sunday (12/2), the fourth in eight days, this time over Lake Huron in the US state of Michigan which borders the Canada. The information was released after previous similar objects were shot down in Alaska and Canada over the past three days. Last weekend, a Chinese balloon was shot down on the North American east coast.

Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin said on Twitter on Sunday that “the object was shot down by US Air Force and National Guard pilots.” According to her, planes were triggered to intercept and try to identify the object. Earlier, US officials said they believed the two unidentified objects shot down in Alaska and Canada were balloons. The suspicion was confirmed by a senior US government official FoxNews and Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer, House Majority Leader.

There is still no information on the object shot down on Sunday. The US official described the downed object in northern Canada as a “small metallic balloon”. Schumer said he received a report about it on Sunday and learned that the device dropped over Alaska was also a balloon. “Both devices were much smaller than the spy balloon that China shot down last week,” the senator told the network’s This Week show. ABC. Americans and Canadians are now searching for the wreckage of the objects. According to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the weather is the biggest obstacle for rescue teams, especially the cold and the few hours of daylight in winter.

The two flying objects were shot down a week after a Chinese balloon was shot down off South Carolina. Beijing claims the object had a scientific purpose, but the United States, after analyzing the wreckage, claimed the balloon had technology to pick up communication signals. Canadian Defense Minister Anita Anand said on Saturday that the object shot down in her country was a cylindrical object similar, but smaller, to the Chinese balloon shot down by the United States. Trudeau revealed that the object’s trajectory had been monitored by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) for 24 hours.

Government sources cited by the Canadian public broadcaster Radio Canada said the object entered US airspace after passing over Alaska. The object was shot down Saturday by an AIM-9X infrared missile fired by a US F-22 fighter jet at 3:41 p.m. Ottawa time. The F-22 operated alongside Canadian CF-18 fighter jets and a CP-140 Aurora patrol aircraft, also from the Canadian Air Force. Canadian military officials said the US F-22 was tasked with firing the missile because, at the time the order was issued, it was in a better position to shoot down the object. WITH INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES (State Agency)