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US authorities restricted airspace over Lake Michigan on February 12, 2023, citing a potential new threat to national security, as the US and Canada responded to a series of recent air intrusions. (AFP)
FAA announces ‘temporary flight restriction’ over one of the Great Lakes along the US-Canada border, designating it as National Defense airspace
US authorities restricted the airspace over Lake Michigan on Sunday, citing a potential new threat to national security, but soon reopened the skies as the United States and Canada responded to multiple air intrusions. Are.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced a “temporary flight restriction” over one of the Great Lakes along the US–Canada border, designating it as a “national defense airspace”, a similar closure over Montana. The American fighter was scrambled days later. Jet.
The order to close Montana was given on a “radar anomaly”, but no objects were found.
Similarly, the Lake Michigan restrictions were lifted shortly after they were announced, apparently without any known threat.
“The FAA briefly closed some airspace over Lake Michigan to support Department of Defense activities. The airspace has been reopened,” the agency said in a statement to AFP.
Sunday’s crackdown on Lake Michigan marked the latest step to address a series of potential national security threats that began in late January with the discovery of a Chinese balloon – dubbed a spy craft by US officials – in the United Crossing the United States at high altitude.
It was eventually shot down by an F-22 jet off the South Carolina coast on 4 February.
China insisted the balloon was conducting weather research, but the Pentagon said the object, parts of which have already been recovered from the water, was capable of surveillance.
Last Friday, US warplanes shot down another object near northern Alaska, the military said, adding that it was “within US sovereign airspace over US territorial waters.” Officials said that it had no system of propulsion or control.
And on Saturday, a US F-22 acting on orders from the US and Canada shot down a mysterious, cylindrical “aerial object” about 100 miles (160 kilometers) from the US border in Canada’s Yukon Territory, it said. It is a danger to civil flight. ,
Meanwhile calls have grown for President Joe Biden to provide the American people with a detailed explanation of the nature of the objects, potential threats to the homeland and what Washington plans to do to prevent more such missions.
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