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US military calls off search for objects shot down over Alaska, Lake Huron

By Jessica Goodman, Cox Media Group National Content Desk
US military calls off search for objects shot down over Alaska, Lake Huron VIRGINIA BEACH, VA - FEBRUARY 10: In this U.S. Navy handout, Sailors assigned to Assault Craft Unit 4 prepare material recovered in the Atlantic Ocean from a high-altitude balloon for transport to federal agents at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek Feb. 10, 2023. At the direction of the President of the United States and with the full support of the Government of Canada, U.S. fighter aircraft under U.S. Northern Command authority engaged and brought down a high-altitude balloon within sovereign U.S. airspace and over U.S. territorial waters, Feb.4, 2023. Active duty, reserve, National Guard, and civilian personnel planned and executed the operation, and partners from the U.S. Coast Guard, Federal Aviation Administration, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) ensured public safety throughout the operation and recovery efforts. (Photo by Ryan Seelbach/U.S. Navy via Getty Images) (Handout /Getty Images)
By Jessica Goodman, Cox Media Group National Content Desk

The U.S. military has decided to call off its search for objects that were shot down last week over Deadhorse, Alaska, and Lake Huron.

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The North American Aerospace Defense Command and United States Northern Command released a statement late Friday evening confirming that search operations have ended for debris from the objects that were shot down on Feb. 10 and Feb. 12 over northeast Alaska and Lake Huron.

The decision to end the search came after the U.S. military and Canada “conducted systematic searches of each area using a variety of capabilities including airborne imagery and sensors, surface sensors and inspections, and subsurface scans, and did not locate debris,” according to the U.S. Northern Command.

The U.S. Northern Command said that the recovery operations had ended on Thursday, according to The Associated Press. They also said that the final pieces are heading to the FBI lab in Virginia for further analysis.

High-altitude object shot down over Lake Huron, Pentagon officials confirm

The U.S. Northern Command, according to the AP, confirmed that air and maritime restrictions off the coast of South Carolina have since been lifted. They have also been lifted for Alaska and Lake Huron.

The U.S. military said that the navy and coast guard have been “scouring the seat for nearly two weeks have departed the area,” according to Reuters.

According to Reuters, the U.S. military said that they have collected all of the priority sensors and electronics of the Chinese balloons along with structures and elements that could be used for further analysis. The U.S. military believes these things can help counterintelligence officials figure out how China “may have been collecting as well as transmitting surveillance information.”

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