(Washington) The airspace of the American state of Montana was temporarily closed on Saturday evening due to the presence of a “radar anomaly” in the sky, said the American civil aviation regulator (FAA) and an elected member of the House of Representatives.
“The FAA has closed a portion of airspace in Montana to support Department of Defense operations. Airspace has been reopened,” the agency said in a statement, after Montana Rep. Matt Rosendale announced the presence of an “object that could interfere with commercial air traffic” and the Department of Defense “will continue its efforts to observe and neutralize the object in the morning”.
Earlier Saturday, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) announced the discovery of an “unidentified” craft flying over the Yukon, which was shot down by Ottawa shortly after.