On Monday night, a gunman opened fire at Michigan State University, killing three students and wounding five others before taking his own life. The shooter has been identified as 43-year-old Anthony Dwayne McRae, who had previously been arrested and charged with carrying a concealed weapon without a permit. The motive for the shooting is still unknown and the university has released a statement expressing their condolences to the victims' families.
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A Pentagon memo revealed that the unidentified flying object shot down in Canadian airspace on Saturday was a “small, metallic balloon with a tethered payload below it.” Army Gen. Mark Milley confirmed that a missile fired by a U.S. fighter jet at a high-altitude object detected over Michigan on Sunday missed its target and landed in Lake Huron. Defense officials told lawmakers that the object shot down over Lake Huron “subsequently slowly descended” into the water after impact, and crossed near “US sensitive sites” before it was shot down.
The Pentagon has released details on an unidentified flying object shot down in Canadian airspace, which was a "small, metallic balloon with a tethered payload below it." China has reported that high-altitude balloons belonging to the United States had flown over its airspace without permission more than 10 times since early last year. Lawmakers are pressing the Biden administration for more information on the objects and if they posed any threat to the United States or its allies.
In less than two weeks, the US military has shot down four unidentified objects in North American airspace. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner has expressed his preference for shooting down the objects over allowing them to traverse the country. The FAA briefly closed some airspace over Lake Michigan to support Department of Defense activities, and the US military is continuing to investigate the incident.