By Tim Binnall
The Canadian government has released files that detail the recovery and analysis of the mysterious UFO that was shot down over the county last year. Obtained by way of a freedom of information request from the media outlet CTVNews, the documents shed new light on the odd object that prompted an intervention from a US fighter jet after it was seen floating over Lake Huron. The last of three suspicious UFOs seen and shot down over North America in February of 2023, the wreckage of the suspected balloon is now said to have been found a few weeks later by police in a community on the shoreline of the lake that serves as a border for the United States and Canada.
While there were fears at the time that the object was some kind of Chinese surveillance device, the newly released files suggest that the object had a far more benign point of origin. Specifically, authorities analyzing a "module" found among the debris determined that it came from "a company who sells weather monitoring equipment." To that end, additional files obtained by the media outlet indicate that the device was likely a balloon set afloat from a U.S. National Weather Service outpost in Michigan.
As for why this would be kept secret for so long, one national security expert theorized that, rather than an effort to cover up something nefarious or otherworldly, officials in the United States and Canada may have simply been trying to keep quiet the embarrassing fact that they had dispatched a fighter jet to take down a harmless weather balloon. The recent release of files concerning the Lake Huron incident follows a similar disclosure in September wherein the Canadian government shared an intriguing image of the second object shot down in February of 2023 and documents describing that UFO as similarly benign.