Military aircraft patrol above Lake Huron, on the US-Canada border, as a Canadian coast guard icebreaker searches for debris
It was a mild, sunny winter afternoon when Tara Shannon learned all the airspace above her community in south-eastern Ontario had been closed.
“I stepped outside and it was just silent. It was surreal,” said Shannon, a children’s author who lives near the community of Tobermory. “Normally you hear commercial aircraft. But it there was nothing. The sky was clear and everything was silent.”Soon, however, the rumbling engines of a fuelling tanker broke the silence and moments later, fighter jets roared overhead.
The high-altitude unidentified object, described as an “octagonal structure” with strings attached to it, was shot down on Sunday afternoon near Canada’s Manitoulin Island on Lake Huron. Residents along the shores of Lake Huron say they have learned little in the past day about the mission to shoot down the object or the salvage efforts.
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