Breaking news: A missile shot at an unidentified flying object over Lake Huron on Sunday missed its target, the Pentagon’s top general said, highlighting the U.S. military’s challenge in taking down a series of unmanned craft detected over North America.
The missile landed harmlessly in the lake’s waters, and a second missile fired by an F-16 then took out the object, Milley said, speaking in Brussels.The development was reported earlier by Fox News. It’s unclear why the Pentagon did not disclose the missed shot when it first disclosed the shoot down this past weekend.
The object was taken out Sunday, marking the fourth such occurrence this month. Others have been shot down off the North Slope of Alaska, over the Yukon territory of Canada, and off the Atlantic coast of South Carolina.More on the flying objects shot down over U.S., CanadaU.S. fighter jets have shot four objects out of the sky over North America this month. The first object, a
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