FAA closes airspace in north Montana for ‘Department of Defense activities’ after UFO shot down over Canada

FEDERAL officials issued a temporary closure of Montana airways to support the Department of Defense after an unidentified flying object was shot down in Canada.

The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed the incident to The U.S. Sun and said the airways have now reopened while the significance of the aerial anomaly remains unclear.

According to a graphic released by the FAA, the airspace closed was near Havre, Montana, just under the Canada-US border.

A “radar anomaly” was detected, leading officials to send a fighter pilot to investigate, the North American Aerospace Defense Command confirmed.

“Those aircraft did not identify any object to correlate to the radar hits,” NORAD and United States Nothern Command said in a .

“NORAD will continue to monitor the situation.”

Montana congressman Matt Rosendale tweeted that he was in direct contact with 911 dispatcher NORCOM to help monitor the situation after the news broke.

He initially said the closure was due to “an object that could interfere with commercial air traffic” before also confirming that airspace has reopened.

“I will remain in contact with defense officials and share more information as it becomes available,” he later tweeted.

“Montanans deserve answers.”

It comes just moments after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed that an object flying over Canada was shot down by a US fighter jet.

A US F-22 shot down the object using an AIM 9X missile, the Department of Defense said.

Both Canadian and US aircraft responded to the incident.

Trudeau said he gave the order but spoke with President Joe Biden about the incident beforehand.

“Canadian forces will now recover and analyse the wreckage of the object,” Trudeau wrote on Twitter.

He thanked the North American Aerospace Defense Command for “keeping the watch” over the continent.

The DoD released a statement following the event and confirmed that the object was detected over Alaska late Friday evening.

“As Canadian authorities conduct recovery operations to help our countries learn more about the object, the Federal Bureau of Investigation will be working closely with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police,” the department wrote.

Another object zooming at 40,000ft elevation was shot down over Alaska on Friday per the orders of Biden after it was deemed “a reasonable threat.”

An F-22 aircraft shot it down with a Sidewinder missile after it entered Alaskan airspace, with its remains scattering across the frozen sea.

US troops along with the Alaska National Guard said they were still searching for the object on sea ice.

It’s unclear who owned the object at this time.

According to , pilots tasked with shooting down the object described it as “cylindrical.”

Officials speaking anonymously with the publication said the object did not have surveillance technology on board, unlike the Chinese spy balloon which was shot down last week.

The treatment of the ballon by President Biden sparked controversy as he delayed shooting it down amid fears for the safety of residents below.

Former Secretary of State for former President Donald Trump, Mike Pompeo, told Sean Hannity the balloon would have been shot down earlier if Trump was still in office.

He said: “I can nearly guarantee you that that balloon would not still be flying if we were still there.”

The balloon, which was described to be the size of three bus lengths, was the first foreign aircraft shot down over American air space since World War II.

The last instance was in 1942, when a Japanese fighter jet was shot down as it tried to attack US Navy ships in Alaska, in an instance known as Akutan Zero.

It’s also the first instance of an F-22 jet performing an “air-to-air kill”, after firing the missile that took down the surveillance balloon.

A department of defense official claimed that upwards of 3 Chinese spy balloons flew over the continental United States during Trump’s presidency, sparking fierce debate online.

Many on Twitter have said shooting the balloon down earlier would have killed many Americans on the ground.

Bloomberg said: “One top national security official from the administration of former President Donald Trump said none of the Chinese spy balloons were near sensitive sites or had payloads as large as this one appears to carry.”

Secretary of State Antony Blinken has postponed his diplomatic visit to China in response to the balloon entering US air space.