The airspace over Lake Michigan in the north of the United States, temporarily closed for “national defense” reasons, has reopened, the US Civil Aviation Regulatory Authority announced Sunday.
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The FAA briefly closed a portion of the airspace over Lake Michigan in support of Department of Defense operations. The authority said in a statement that airspace had reopened.
Contacted by AFP, the Pentagon has not yet responded.
The news comes as three flying objects, including one described by Washington as a Chinese spy balloon, were shot down in a week over the United States and Canada.
On Saturday, airspace in the US state of Montana was temporarily closed, but a fighter jet sent to investigate a “radar anomaly” did not identify a flying “object,” according to the military.
The United States believes that the first object officially detected was a balloon controlled by the Chinese military and part of a fleet sent by Beijing over more than 40 countries on five continents, for espionage purposes.
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