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.
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The international community is on high alert after a warning from former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that a conventional war in Ukraine could provoke a nuclear conflict. Medvedev made the threat in a Telegram post ahead of a key meeting of NATO allies and other nations in Germany, where they are expected to make additional pledges of military support to Kyiv