Another object shot down, this time over Lake Huron in Michigan
and NORAD. Fighter jets had scrambled to investigate a radar finding there but did not find an object, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to comment.
An F-16 shot down the object at 2:42 p.m. ET Sunday at the direction of President Joe Biden, according to Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary. The pilot fired an AIM 9X sidewinder missile, the same weapon used in the previous instances.
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