Police collect wreckage of 'octagonal-shaped UFO' shot down by a US F-16 fighter jet

Newly released documents have revealed that Canadian constabulary collected debris of a UFO that was changeable down implicit Lake Huron past year. 

The entity was taken down connected February 12, 2023 by a US F-16 combatant jet, marking the 3rd specified incidental over North America that month.

Witnesses described the entity as 'octagonal' with strings hanging disconnected it earlier the pitchy fired two missiles, striking the UFO that past dilatory descended into Canadian waters.

Documents obtained by CTVNews.ca stated that 'wreckage' was recovered connected 'the shoreline of Lake Huron' weeks aft hunt efforts were suspended. 

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) partnered with the American and Canadian Coast Guard to behaviour a little hunt pursuing the incident. 

By February 16, it was called disconnected owed to 'deteriorating upwind and the debased probability of recovery, according to an RCMP statement. 

But the partially redacted emails acquired by CTVNews.ca revealed that the RCMP collected 'both worldly and a module' from the tract of the incidental astir 3 weeks aft the entity was changeable down. 

National information officials person criticized the effort for a 'lack of transparency.'

'The module is from a institution who sells upwind monitoring equipment,' a elder RCMP subordinate told a Canadian subject brigadier-general successful an email sent connected March 13, 2023, according to CTVNews.ca.

'It volition beryllium analyzed to find if determination is thing antithetic with it but I fishy not fixed the size. Whether oregon not it is from the sprout down is uncertain,' the email continued.

An RCMP spokesperson further confirmed the debris postulation successful a connection to CTVNews.ca.

'The RCMP confirms that debris was recovered from the shores of Lake Huron, and we proceed to enactment successful adjacent collaboration with our home and planetary partners successful furthering the investigation,' the spokesperson said Friday. 

'As the probe is ongoing, further details cannot beryllium provided astatine this time.' 

The RCMP would not corroborate whether the debris was ever definitively linked to the Lake Huron object, and Canada's Department of National Defense besides declined to comment, CTVNews.ca reported.

Iain Boyd, manager of the Center for National Security Initiatives astatine the University of Colorado Boulder, said that the deficiency of transparency could beryllium due to the fact that the US and Canadian governments were embarrassed of shooting down objects that did not airs nationalist information threats. 

'To person expended important subject clip and resources to sprout down benign objects does not look good, adjacent though determination whitethorn person been galore factors we are inactive unaware of,' helium speculated to CTVNews.ca. 

'I americium not amazed that the Canadian authorities did not stock much accusation astir the Lake Huron debris.'

The incident, and 3 others that month, occurred conscionable days aft the downing of a Chinese surveillance balloon connected February 4, which garnered wide media attention. 

The different 2 were downed successful Alaska and Yukon, Canada.

All 3 were reported to beryllium smaller than the Chinese balloon, which measured 200 feet tall, according to US General Glen D. VanHerck.

The balloon carried an underslung payload described arsenic a 'technology bay' that was astir the size of 2 to 3 schoolhouse buses. 

It flew crossed North America from January 28 to February 4, 2023, passing implicit Alaska, occidental Canada and the contiguous US earlier it was changeable down by the US Air Force disconnected the seashore of South Carolina.

Analysis of the debris determined that the balloon carried intelligence-gathering equipment, but it did not look to person sent accusation backmost to China.

The 3 UFO incidents that followed did not look to beryllium related to the Chinese balloon, and determination was nary grounds to suggest that they were surveillance vehicles from immoderate different country, President Joe Biden stated connected February 16.