A third 'unidentified object' has been shot down from above the United States and Canada in as many days. It comes eight days after a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon was shot out of the sky.
The latest object was was shot down with a missile by US fighter jets on Sunday (February 12) over Lake Huron, near the border with Canada. The news comes as US officials are still trying to identify objects that were shot down from above Yukon, in Canada, on Saturday and Alaska on Friday.
US officials say the latest object shot down was believed to be the same one that had been tracked over Montana and monitored by the government on Saturday night. Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin tweeted that 'the object has been downed by pilots from the US Air Force and National Guard', with the news confirmed by four US officials.
