(Washington) The airspace over Lake Michigan in the northern United States, temporarily closed for reasons related to “national defense”, has reopened, the regulator of American civil aviation (FAA) announced on Sunday. ).
“The FAA briefly closed a portion of the airspace over Lake Michigan to support Department of Defense operations. Airspace has been reopened,” the regulator said in a statement.
Contacted by AFP, the Pentagon had not yet reacted.
The news comes as three flying objects, including one described by Washington as a Chinese spy balloon, were shot down in a week over the United States and Canada.
On Saturday, airspace in the US state of Montana was temporarily closed, but a fighter jet dispatched to investigate a “radar anomaly” did not identify a flying “object” according to the military.
The United States believes that the first object officially detected was a balloon controlled by the Chinese military and was part of a fleet sent by Beijing over more than 40 countries on five continents, for espionage purposes.