‘It’s surreal’: search for mystery flying object rocks quiet Canadian lakeside

Military aircraft patrol above Lake Huron, on the US-Canada border, as a Canadian coast guard icebreaker searches for debris

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It was a mild, sunny winter afternoon when Tara Shannon learned all the airspace above her community in south-eastern Ontario had been closed.

Soon after, she and her neighbours began receiving scattered reports of a high-flying mystery object had been spotted in the area.