Fighter jets fail to locate new ‘airborne object’ detected over Montana after military shut down airspace over ‘radar anomaly’ – hours after US F-22 shoots down ‘small cylindrical object’ over Canada
- The FAA closed the airspace around Havre, Montana, for around an hour on Saturday night due to ‘an object that could interfere with commercial air traffic’
- Airspace has reopened and the Department of Defense will wait until Sunday morning to shoot it down: it is the fourth ‘object’ over North America in a week
- Four hours previously, a U.S. F-22 shot down a ‘small
The Department of Defense will wait until tomorrow to take down an ‘airborne object’ spotted above Montana on Saturday evening – four hours after U.S. fighter jets shot a ‘small cylindrical object’ out of the sky above Canada.
The Federal Aviation Authority briefly closed the airspace above Havre airport in Montana at 7.40pm EST citing ‘national defense’ amid reports of ‘an object that could interfere with commercial air traffic’.
Data from FlightRadar.com showed a KC-135 Stratotanker – an American military aerial refueling aircraft – circling the area before airspace was reopened at around 8.20pm.
Matt Rosendale, a Republican congressman representing Montana who claimed to be in direct contact with NORCOM (Northern Command), said the Department of Defense would not shoot down the unidentified object until day broke on Sunday.
If it is shot down, it will be the fourth object forced from the North American skies in a week, after a spy balloon was downed in South Carolina last weekend; an object was taken down on Friday above Alaska; and another above Canada’s Yukon province on Saturday.
