FAA closes airspace over part of Montana after yet another airborne ‘object’ spotted
The Federal Aviation Administration temporarily shut down airspace over part of Montana as the Defense Department sent a fighter to investigate an “anomaly” that was spotted on radar, officials said.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command [NORAD] said in a statement Saturday that the central Montana airspace was closed after it “detected a radar anomaly” but a jet that was sent up found nothing. “Those aircraft did not identify any object to correlate to the radar hits. NORAD will continue to monitor the situation,” the defense command said.
NORAD’s statement, however, conflicted with an earlier tweet by Montana Rep. Matt Rosedale, who wrote that an “object” that could “interfere with commercial aircraft” had been spotted. He said he was told by military officials that “the DOD will resume efforts to observe and ground the object in the morning.” He gave no details as to what it was.The FAA issued a notice around 5:30 p.m. Saturday banning flights in an area about 50 by 50 nautical miles around Havre, Montana, close to the Canadian border.
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