‘It’s surreal’: search for mystery flying object rocks quiet Canadian lakeside

A Flight Radar tracker image shows aircraft movement over Lake Huron where a search is under way for debris from a downed flying object. Photograph: Flight Radar 24

It was a mild, sunny winter afternoon when Tara Shannon learned all the airspace above her community in south-eastern Ontario had been closed.

Soon after, she and her neighbours began receiving scattered reports of a high-flying mystery object had been spotted in the area.