U.S. shoots down a fourth high-altitude object as lawmakers demand more information

The U.S. military shot down a fourth unidentified object Sunday and expects to recover it. Officials said there were no indications of collateral damage and that the object went down in the lake.

“An F-16 fired an AIM9x to successfully shoot down an airborne object flying at approximately 20,000 feet altitude in U.S. airspace over Lake Huron in the State of Michigan,” according to a statement by the Pentagon on Sunday. “Its path and altitude raised concerns, including that it could be a hazard to civil aviation.”

Rep. Jack Bergman, R-Mich., confirmed in a tweet Sunday that he had been in contact with the Department of Defense regarding the operation in the Great Lakes region. He said the U.S. “decommissioned another ‘object’” over Lake Huron.

“The American people deserve far more answers than we have,” he wrote in the tweet.