The head of the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD), US General Glen van Herk, did not rule out the possibility of an extraterrestrial origin of downed objects in the sky over North America. He noted that the military did not just call the destroyed devices objects, and did not define them as balloons.
“I will leave intelligence and counterintelligence to figure it out. I don’t rule anything out,” the general said at a briefing (quoted by Reuters).
Glen van Herck also did not explain how the objects remained in the air. He suggested that there could be gas or a propulsion system inside the structure.
Michigan House Representative Jack Bergman said earlier that an octagonal object was shot down over Lake Huron. He told Fox News about it.
The February 12 downing of an object over Lake Huron was the fourth downed device in North American airspace since early February. It is only known that the first object was a Chinese balloon. The ownership of other devices and their types have not yet been determined. The US military has not yet been able to remove the wreckage in Alaska – a second air object was shot down there.
For more details, see Kommersant’s article “The Whole Sky Was Searched”.