00:20On February 12, 2023, a U.S. Air National Guard F-16 fired a missile over Lake Huron
00:29and destroyed an unidentified object in midair. For three years, the only thing the public had
00:35was a press release. Then, last week, the footage dropped. What you're about to see is 11 seconds,
00:43a bright white shape, glowing in infrared, hovering at 20,000 feet. And at 20 seconds,
00:50something happens that no balloon should survive. Cast your mind back to early February 2023,
00:56just days before, a massive Chinese spy balloon had been shot down off the coast of South Carolina,
01:03watched by millions live on TV. The Pentagon was rattled. Radar operators across North America
01:10had been told, look harder. Within a week, three more objects were shot down, over Alaska,
01:17over the Yukon, and finally over Lake Huron near the Michigan-Canada border. NORAD had been tracking
01:23this one since it appeared over Montana. Octagonal in shape, strings hanging off the bottom,
01:29no obvious payload, flying at about 20,000 feet, right in the path of commercial aircraft.
01:36President Biden gave the order. Minnesota Air National Guard F-16s, call sign AESIR,
01:44the 148th Fighter Wing out of Duluth, were scrambled from Madison, Wisconsin, backed up by a KC-135 tanker.
01:52Armed with IM-9X Sidewinder missiles. First shot misses. Here's the part that doesn't get talked
02:00about enough. The first missile missed. An IM-9X, a weapon designed to track supersonic jets,
02:07flew straight past this slow-moving object and fell into the lake. Think about that for a second.
02:13The second missile connected at 2.42 p.m. Central Time. And what the infrared camera captured in the
02:20next few seconds is why this file, labeled DOW-UAP-PR071, became one of the most talked-about
02:30releases in the entire declassification tranche. At the 11-second mark, the sensor locks in. You see a
02:37bright white mass, glowing against the cold lake below. At 20 seconds, AARO's own description says it,
02:45a kinetic interaction where the initial subject fragments in a radial displacement pattern,
02:51suggesting a high-energy event. That's the official government language for it explodes violently,
02:58and the pieces scatter outward in every direction. Here's where it gets genuinely complicated.
03:04Debris recovery teams searched the lake and the Canadian shoreline. What they found,
03:10according to a 2024 Canadian FOIA release, was material consistent with a balloon. Possibly a
03:17hobbyist project. Possibly a science experiment. No exotic technology. No propulsion system. No confirmed
03:24payload. But the file is still called UAP. This is one release among dozens in what the Department of
03:33War is calling Pursue, the presidential unsealing and reporting system for UAP encounters. We still
03:40don't know exactly what the pilot saw in that cockpit. We don't know why the first missile missed. We don't
03:47know what those strings hanging off the bottom were attached to. What we do know is this. For the first
03:53time, you can watch it happen. Forty-six seconds declassified in the public domain.
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