A global flight-tracking website says a plane believed to be searching for the debris of an unidentified object shot down over Lake Huron on Sunday was the most-tracked flight worldwide at one point.
The Swedish website Flightradar24 said Monday before noon EST on Twitter that its most-tracked flight was a U.S. Coast Guard HC-130J, a long-range search and rescue aircraft, which could be seen circling over the Canadian side of Lake Huron.
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As many as 6,000 people were listed as tracking the flight at around midday Monday. By 12:30 p.m. EST, the flight was no longer being tracked.
A U.S. fighter jet shot down an unidentified flying object on Sunday over Lake Huron, the fourth such downing in eight days.
It comes after the U.S. shot down the first object, a suspected Chinese spy balloon, over the Atlantic Ocean on Feb. 4. By then, it had already spent a week crossing through Canada and the United States.
A U.S. fighter jet took down an unidentified object off the north coast of Alaska on Feb. 10, followed by another on Feb. 11 over central Yukon.
