‘I would like to know if it’s of any threat;’ People curious after 4th high-flying object shot down

DAYTON — A high-flying object was shot down over North American airspace Sunday for the third day in a row.

President Biden ordered a U.S. fighter jet to shoot down one over Luke Huron in Michigan.

It has some wondering what’s going on in the skies?

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News Center 7′s Brandon Lewis says while the U.S. continues to be on high alert over the possibility of more unidentified objects in the sky, it’s leaving people here on the ground with questions about what’s next.

The U.S. Military shot down an unidentified object that flew over Michigan’s Upper Peninsula Sunday, according to CNN.

It’s unclear if the object had surveillance capabilities.

Lewis says it’s the fourth object U.S. fighter jets brought down from the sky in over a week. The others were shot down over Canada, Alaska and a suspected Chinese sky balloon off the coast of South Carolina.

“I would like to know if it’s of any threat to us or anybody else near us,” said Chase Caldwell of Ada.

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Dayton Congressman Mike Turner, Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, was on the Sunday political talk shows.

He was on CNN’s State of the Union before the object was shot down over Michigan and told Jake Tapper, the show’s host, about the Biden Administration’s response.

“I would prefer them to be trigger happy than to be permissive, but we’re going to have to see whether or not this is just the administration trying to change headlines,” he said. “But, what I think this shows, which is probably more important to our policy discussion here, is that we really have to declare that we’re going to defend our airspace and then we need to invest, what’s become clear in the public discussion is we really don’t have adequate radar systems, we certainly don’t have an integrated missile defense system.”

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Others think the U.S. has been doing the best it can given the circumstances.

“I think we’re doing as much as we can right now,” Caldwell told Lewis. “There’s not really much that we can do other than try to figure out what it is, where it came from, what its significance was.”

Lewis reports the latest three objects were much smaller in size and flew at lower altitudes than the suspected spy balloon, according to the Associated Press.

We will continue to provide updates.

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