By Emily Jacobs, Weekend News Editor
February 11, 2023 11:20 PM
The Federal
Aviation Administration temporarily shut down airspace over part
of Montana on
Saturday while the Defense
Department sent a fighter jet to investigate a "radar
anomaly" after another airborne "object" was spotted.
News of the incident was first revealed by Rep. Matt
Rosendale (R-MT), who tweeted Saturday evening that an "object"
was spotted over his district, and later confirmed by Sens. Jon Tester (D-MT)
and Steve Daines (R-MT). The North American Aerospace Defense Command said in a
statement shortly after the airspace was reopened that a jet sent up to assess
the object found nothing.
US JETS SHOOT DOWN LATEST 'UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT' FLYING OVER
CANADA
"NORAD detected a radar anomaly and sent fighter
aircraft to investigate," the defense command said in a joint statement
with U.S. Northern Command. "Those aircraft did not identify any object to
correlate to the radar hits. NORAD will continue to monitor the
situation."
"The FAA closed some airspace in Montana to support
Department of Defense activities. The airspace has been reopened," a
statement from the FAA said.
The NORAD statement conflicts with Rosendale's tweet, which
claimed that an “object” that could “interfere with commercial aircraft” had
been spotted. Tester and Daines have vowed to investigate the matter and
publicize what they could of their findings.
The situation occurred hours after a U.S. fighter jet shot
down a separate, unidentified cylindrical object flying over Canada,
and one day after President Joe Biden ordered
another "unidentified object" shot
down over Alaska. The "object" in question on Saturday
evening was spotted over Havre, Montana, which is located 30 miles south of the
Canadian border.
Saturday's incident also follows a series of similar
episodes this month, including the U.S. shooting down what the DoD described as
a Chinese
spy balloon off the Atlantic coast after it traveled across the
country. The FAA issued similar flight restrictions while responding to the
balloon.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/faa-montana-airspace-closure-radar-anomaly-norad
https://globalnews.ca/news/9481087/montana-airspace-faa-defence-activites/
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