The Pentagon on Sunday night said that President Joe Biden acted on guidance from military officials to shoot down an object flying near Lake Huron, Michigan, and also confirmed that it transited near sensitive military sites.
The object—likely the same one that was picked up on radar in Montana on Saturday—flew “in proximity to sensitive [Department of Defense] sites,” the DOD confirmed in a statement. It was taken down by an F-16 fighter jet that fired an AIM-9 Sidewinder missile at it, officials said, while providing few details about what it might be.
