Did an F-16 shoot down a UFO over Lake Huron in 2023?

“AARO's published description of the February 12, 2023 USAF Air National Guard F-16C engagement over Lake Huron describes 'a kinetic interaction between two distinct areas of contrast, with the initial subject of the footage fragmenting in a radial displacement pattern that suggests a high-energy event.'”

Catalog entry DOW-UAP-PR071 in PURSUE Release 02 is a 46-second infrared video from a USAF Air National Guard F-16C captured on February 12, 2023 over Lake Huron, in the U.S. Northern Command area of responsibility. AARO's video description states that at approximately the 20-second mark, 'the footage appears to depict a kinetic interaction between two distinct areas of contrast, with the initial subject of the footage fragmenting in a radial displacement pattern that suggests a high-energy event.' The clip is the U.S. military's declassified gun-camera record of the publicly-reported Lake Huron shootdown of an unidentified object during the February 2023 high-altitude-object incidents. The video was uploaded to a classified network in February 2023 — the same month the engagement occurred — and was declassified under PURSUE on 2026-05-22.