The FAA temporarily shut down a significant swath of airspace over Northern Wisconsin and Northern Michigan at noon yesterday to “support Department of Defense activities.” The closure followed a similar action taken over Montana Saturday night and was related to the shootdown of a third unidentified object over the U.S. and Canada within a 72-hour period. The Great Lakes area airspace reopened late Sunday afternoon; however, a Canadian TFR remains in the immediate area over Sunday’s shootdown over Canadian waters.
Sunday night a senior Pentagon official admitted to significant gaps in national defense radar while discussing the Sunday shootdown at 20,000 feet over Lake Huron, just south of Manitoulin Island. The latest object entered U.S. airspace over Montana shortly before dusk on Saturday, but was lost, according to U.S. Northcom commander Gen. Glen VanHerck, who said Oregon-based F-15 fighters dispatched to investigate the “radar contact” were “unsuccessful.”
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