'Octagonal' UFO with strings hanging off it was shot down in Canada last year: Report

UFOs hogged the limelight in the past week in North America. First, there was a hearing on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) by a committee in Washington, then the Pentagon released a report on the UFO sightings over the past year and now Canada is at the forefront.

A new tranche of documents released states that the Canadian police collected debris from a UFO shot down over Lake Huron last year. The incident happened on February 12, 2023, when a US F-16 fighter jet shot down an unidentified object. It was the third time that such a hit had taken place that month in North America.

A Dail Mail report suggests that people who saw the object said it was 'octagonal' with strings hanging off it. The jet fired two missiles to take down the UFO that slowly fell into the waters below. A search was conducted to recover the debris. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the American and Canadian Coast Guard collaborated on the search mission. However, they could not find anything, as per initial reports.

The search was called off by February 16 due to "deteriorating weather and the low probability of recovery", according to an RCMP statement.

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No confirmation of what the wreckage was

However, CTVNews.ca reported citing partially redacted emails that the "wreckage" was found on "the shoreline of Lake Huron" weeks after the search was suspended. It reported that the RCMP collected "both material and a module" from the site nearly three weeks after the strange flying object was shot down.

At the time, a senior RCMP official said in an email that "the module is from a company who sells weather monitoring equipment". The email was addressed to a Canadian military brigadier-general and sent on March 13, 2023, according to CTVNews.ca.

However, the RCMP did not confirm whether the debris was definitively linked to the object that fell over Lake Huron. Canada's Department of National Defense also declined to comment on the link, CTVNews.ca reported.

"It will be analysed to determine if there is anything unusual with it but I suspect not given the size. Whether or not it is from the shoot down is uncertain," the email continued.

Experts are slamming Canada for the lack of transparency.

Notably, that month, three other such incidents were reported after a Chinese surveillance balloon was downed on February 4 over the United States.