According to recordings made inside the cockpits of the F-16s dispatched over the weekend to intercept a UFO over Lake Huron, the pilots had a hard time determining what it was they were chasing.
The audio tape was released before the thing was shot down on Sunday, another object was shot down over Canada on Saturday, and another UFO was spotted off the coast of Alaska on Friday.
The balloon is not a term that occurs to me at all. The honest reality is that I have no idea what… One of the Wisconsin Air National Guard pilots commented, “I can see it outside with my own eyes.” It was a success for the Drive to retrieve the tape. Something like a balloon could be seen off in the distance, at least in my mind’s eye. To be honest, I have my doubts because of how little it is.
Even the pilot couldn’t determine for sure if it was metallic or not.
He went on to say that he could “see, like, lines coming down below, but I can’t see anything below it” and that the item was “certainly smaller than a truck.”
Pilots described it as having a “blackish” tint and like a cargo container.
Just the scale of it would be problematic… A pilot said, “I can’t see it, even though it’s so near since it’s moving so slowly and is so little.”
I’m going to call it a balloon, said another pilot. A few loose ends are visible, but that’s about all I can figure out. little bigger than a four-wheeler.
Since the initial $472,000 Sidewinder AIM-9X missile shot by the Air Force F-16 that finally destroyed the UFO missed, the pilot had to fire another one.
According to a defense official who spoke with Fox News, the first heat-seeking Sidewinder missile deployed was unsuccessful.
The object was fired down from around 20,000 feet in the air near the state of Michigan in the United States.
American witnesses reportedly saw this thing above Montana on Saturday night, but American jet fighters were unable to locate it.
“based on its flight path and data we may credibly relate this item to the radar signal intercepted over Montana that flew in near to important DOD locations,” officials from the Defense Department stated in a statement. The security of air travel was compromised, and it might be exploited for surveillance, but we found no indication that it posed an urgent military threat to ground-based infrastructure.
Space junk associated with the object has not been found.