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The Federal Aviation Administration briefly banned civilian air traffic and declared a "national defense airspace" over parts of Lake Michigan in northern Wisconsin Sunday (February 12), the organization announced via MSNBC
The FAA hasn't yet specified the reasoning for its decision at the time of publication Sunday afternoon. The decision came shortly after a national defense airspace was established over Montana due to an unidentified flying object.
"There is a temporary flight restriction currently over Lake Michigan," NBC News' Monica Alba said. "The reason that this is important is because they site in that restriction that it is due to department of defense activity, so that was the same language that was given last night when the FAA announced this temporary restriction, again, eventually they lifted that."
Alba added that the FAA "basically summarized" the previous restriction in Montana "as saying 'we were reviewing everything but it was simply too dark to tell' what they had potentially raised as a flag" and that the agency "needed to wait for conditions to improve to observe an unidentified flying object
"Whether this is another object or not, we don't know," Alba said in reference to the temporary closure in Wisconsin on Sunday.
On Friday (February 10), the U.S. military shot down an unidentified object flying over Alaska near the Canadian border.