Object Shot Down Over Lake Huron Is Likely In Deep Water: Officials

MICHIGAN — An unidentified object U.S. military personnel shot down Sunday over Lake Huron is probably resting at the bottom of the lake, a White House official said Monday.

"The object over Lake Huron now lies in what is probably very deep water," White House National Security Council Spokesman John Kirby told reporters during a Monday briefing.

Lansing area Rep. Elissa Slotkin said during a news conference in Howell that Lake Huron's "choppy waters" are making it difficult for crews to find the object's debris and determine what it was.

"We do not know what it is right now," Slotkin said. "I have no reason to believe this is a UFO … chances are this is just a normal, run-of-the-mill thing that we in the intelligence community know how to exploit."

Pentagon officials said the object was shaped like an octagon, and deemed it as a flight hazard, but they do not believe it was a threat to national security.

U.S. officials said the object passed over Wisconsin, Lake Michigan and the Upper Peninsula at roughly 20,000 feet up before it was shot down about 15 nautical miles east of the Upper Peninsula in Lake Huron.

The object shot down over Lake Huron was the third unidentified object the military has shot down in three days, after two other objects were shot down over Alaska and Canada earlier in the weekend.

U.S. officials said they were still trying to determine what all three objects were.

All three unidentified objects shot down comes after U.S. fighter jets shot down what they said was a Chinese spy ballon just off the coast of South Carolina after it traveled across the nation.