New documents released by Canada’s Department of National Defence have put to bed the rumors of aliens shot down near Lake Huron.
According to CTV News, a Canadian news outlet, an unidentified flying object was shot down by a United States F-16 fighter jet on Feb. 12, 2023. It was reported to be octagonal with “strings hanging off.”
The jet fired twice at the object, striking it once before it crashed into the lake in Canadian waters. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police worked with both the American and Canadian Coast Guard to search for the object but the effort was eventually called off.
Documents requested by CTV News indicate the wreckage was found on the Lake Huron shoreline about three weeks later, but that was never announced.
An email reportedly sent between a senior official with RCMP and a military official said the object was made by a company that sells “weather monitoring equipment.”
“Officials characterized it as a suspected balloon that did not pose a military threat, but could have interfered with domestic air traffic,” CTV reported.
The Lake Huron wreckage was one of three “UFO incidents” in a matter of weeks over the U.S. and Canada
Iain Boyd, the director of the Center for National Security Initiatives at the University of Colorado, told the news outlet that he suspects both Canadian and American government officials kept the findings quiet to avoid embarrassment.
“To have expended significant military time and resources to shoot down benign objects does not look good, even though there may have been many factors we are still unaware of,” Boyd told CTV News. “I am not surprised that the Canadian government did not share more information about the Lake Huron debris.”
An email reportedly sent between a senior official with RCMP and a military official said the object was made by a company that sells “weather monitoring equipment.”
“Officials characterized it as a suspected balloon that did not pose a military threat, but could have interfered with domestic air traffic,” CTV reported.
