Military calls off recovery efforts for two of three downed airborne objects

The United States military has ended recovery efforts for two of the three unknown aerial objects it shot down in recent weeks.

U.S. Northern Command said on Friday that it recommended concluding the recovery operations that day near Deadhorse, Alaska, and on Lake Huron, as investigators discovered no debris from airborne objects shot down on Feb. 10 and Feb. 12.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin “concurred” with the recommendation to end the searches.

Regarding the object shot down over Alaska, U.S. Northern Command worked with the Alaska National Guard, FBI, and U.S. Indo-Pacific Command to find the downed object, but the “arctic conditions and sea ice instability” affected their decision to end the recovery efforts. For the one shot down two days later, the Unified Command Group, consisting of capabilities from U.S. Coast Guard District 9, the FBI, Canadian Coast Guard, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, did not find debris from the object after multiple days of surface searches and subsurface scans.