US jets shoot down ‘octagonal’ flying object near Canada border

United States fighter jets have shot down an “unidentified object” flying near the Canadian border in the Midwest, the Pentagon said, the latest incident since a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon put North American security forces on high alert.
The object was flying at 6,100 metres (20,000ft), and while it was not a military threat, it could have potentially interfered with domestic air traffic, Pentagon spokesperson Patrick Ryder said in a statement.
It was shot down at 2:42pm local time (19:42 GMT) over Lake Huron on the US-Canada border, the statement said.
It was the third to be shot down over North America in as many days and the fourth in just more than a week.

Al Jazeera’s Um-e-Kulsoom Shariff reports.

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