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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) temporarily shut down airspace over part of Montana as the Defense Department sent a fighter to investigate an “anomaly” that was spotted on radar, officials said.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command [NORAD] said in a statement Saturday that the central Montana airspace was closed after it “detected a radar anomaly” but a jet that was sent up found nothing.
“Those aircraft did not identify any object to correlate to the radar hits. NORAD will continue to monitor the situation,” the defense command said.
NORAD’s statement, however, conflicted with an earlier tweet by Montana Rep. Matt Rosedale, who wrote that an “object” that could “interfere with commercial aircraft” had been spotted.
