Police collect the wreckage of an ‘octagonal UFO’ shot down by a US F-16 fighter jet
Newly released documents have revealed that Canadian police have collected the debris from a UFO that was shot over Lake Huron last year.
The object was shot down by an American F-16 fighter jet on February 12, 2023, which was the third such incident in history. North America that month.
Witnesses described the object as “octagonal” with strings attached to it before the plane fired two rockets, which hit the UFO which then slowly descended into Canadian waters.
Documents obtained by CTVNews.ca stated that “wreckage” was found on “the shoreline of Lake Huron” weeks after search efforts were suspended.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) worked with the U.S. and Canadian Coast Guards to conduct a brief search following the incident.
It was called off on Feb. 16 due to “deteriorating weather and the low likelihood of recovery,” according to an RCMP statement.
But the partially redacted emails obtained by CTVNews.ca showed the RCMP collected “both material and a module” from the scene of the incident about three weeks after the object was shot.
National security officials have criticized the efforts for a “lack of transparency.”
Newly released documents have revealed that Canadian police have collected debris after an unidentified object was shot over Lake Huron on February 12, 2023.
“The module is from a company that sells weather monitoring equipment,” a senior RCMP member told a Canadian military brigadier general in an email sent on March 13, 2023, according to CTVNews.ca.
‘It will be analyzed to determine if there is anything unusual about it, but I suspect given its size there is not. Whether or not it is from the shooting is uncertain,” the email continued.
An RCMP spokesperson further confirmed the debris collection in a statement to CTVNews.ca.
“The RCMP confirms that debris has been recovered from the shores of Lake Huron, and we continue to work closely with our domestic and international partners as we advance the investigation,” the spokesperson said Friday.
“As the investigation is ongoing, no additional details can be provided at this time.”
The RCMP would not confirm whether the debris was ever definitively linked to the Lake Huron object, and Canada’s Department of National Defense also declined to comment, CTVNews.ca reported.
Iain Boyd, director of the Center for National Security Initiatives at the University of Colorado Boulder, said the lack of transparency could be because the U.S. and Canadian governments were embarrassed about shooting down objects that did not pose a threat to national security.
The object was shot down by a US F-16 fighter jet and was the third unidentified object to be shot from the skies over North America that month.
The incident occurred just days after the downing of a Chinese surveillance balloon on February 4, which attracted widespread media attention.
“It doesn’t look good that we spent significant military time and resources shooting down benign objects, even though there may have been many factors that we are still unaware of,” he speculated to CTVNews.ca.
“I’m not surprised the Canadian government hasn’t shared more information about the Lake Huron debris.”
The incident, and three others that month, occurred just days after the downing of a Chinese surveillance balloon on February 4, which attracted widespread media attention.
The other two were shot down in Alaska and Yukon, Canada.
According to American General Glen D. VanHerck, all three would be smaller than the Chinese balloon, which was 60 meters high.
The balloon had an undermounted payload, described as a “technology bay,” that was about the size of two to three school buses.
It flew across North America from January 28 to February 4, 2023, passing over Alaska, western Canada and the contiguous US before being shot down by the US Air Force off the coast of South Carolina.
Analysis of the debris showed that the balloon was carrying intelligence-gathering equipment, but it did not appear to have returned any information to China.
The three UFO incidents that followed did not appear to be related to the Chinese balloon, and there was no indication that they were surveillance vehicles from any other country, President Joe Biden said on February 16.