New reporting says Canadian officials obtained debris from a module in Lake Huron just a few weeks after an unidentified flying object was shot down by a Minnesota Air National Guard F-16 fighter jet on February 12, 2023. The missile was one of two fired at the object, the other missed and landed in Lake Huron, according to U.S. military officials.
“That debris was recovered from the shores of Lake Huron,” RCMP spokesperson Andrew McCarthy said in a statement to WCMU. “We continue to work in close collaboration with our domestic and international partners in furthering the investigation. As the investigation is ongoing, additional details cannot be provided at this time,” he said.
The object over Lake Huron was shot and destroyed a week after what U.S. officials called a Chinese spy balloon was shot down off the coast of South Carolina, sparking national attention.
Canadian outlet CTV obtained files from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police via a Freedom of Information Act request. According to the documents, Canadian officials obtained debris out of Lake Huron in March 2023, a few weeks after the object was destroyed.
The documents say the RCMP isn’t sure if the debris is the unidentified object that was shot out of the sky. The files also say the object might have contained a module from a company that sells weather monitoring equipment. These findings were never made public until now.
The RCMP called off the search for the object citing weather conditions on February 16, 2023. The U.S. Department of Defense did not respond to WCMU’s request for comment.
