New details emerged over the weekend about the unidentified object that the U.S. military shot down on Friday several miles off the coast of Alaska.

The new information comes after the U.S. military shot down an object with a “cylindrical shape” that was about the size of a small car, according to U.S. officials. The object did not appear to have any “observable surveillance equipment.”

“We have no further details about the object at this time, including any description of its capabilities, purpose or origin,” said Pentagon spokesperson Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder. “The object was about the size of a small car, so not similar in size or shape to the high-altitude surveillance balloon that was taken down off the coast of South Carolina.”

Accounts from pilots of the F-35 fighter jets that were sent to intercept the object varied, according to CNN.

U.S. officials said that the jets observed the object on Thursday night and on Friday morning before shooting it down and were only able to report back “limited” information about what they saw.

Some of the pilots reported that the object “interfered with their sensors” on their planes, the report said.

Others said that they saw no propulsion system on the object and could not explain how it was staying in the air and flying at 40,000 feet.

CNN’s Jake Tapper asked House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) about the reports during an interview Sunday on the network’s “State of the Union” show.

“At this point, they are just reports, so we will have to wait until we get the final information,” Turner said. “But because this thing was shot down, we have an ability to do the forensics, to do the exploitation of it when it’s found. And that will answer a lot of our questions. And, also, getting the data from the various planes, their sensors, what they actually were seeing or not seeing, in addition to what the pilots saw, will be really important.”

Turner said that the biggest development to come from the recent interactions with foreign objects entering U.S. airspace is that it “is time for the United States to take this as a turning point to invest.”

“We need more sophisticated radar systems. We have them. We just don’t have them deployed to protect high over the United States,” he said. “An integrated missile defense system — we have helped invest in Israel having an integrated missile defense system. We don’t have one ourselves.”

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U.S. officials believe the unidentified flying objects (UFO) spotted over the United States and Canada over the past couple days are balloons, the Senate’s top Democrat said Sunday morning.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos he discussed the situation with National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on Saturday night.

“They believe they were, yes,” Schumer told the anchor of “This Week” when asked to confirm whether the objects shot down over Alaska and Canada were balloons.

“I think the Chinese were humiliated. I think the Chinese were caught lying, and it’s a real step back for them…they look really bad,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer tells @GStephanopoulos about the Chinese balloon surveillance program. https://t.co/eS3P8M0epS pic.twitter.com/GrR27nUY3d

— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) February 12, 2023

Schumer added that these objects were “much smaller” than the balloon shot down off the coast of South Carolina last weekend, and were flying at a lower altitude of about 40,000 feet, endangering commercial aircraft.

With salvage operations underway, Schumer said U.S. military and intelligence officials are focused on gathering and accumulating information. A “comprehensive analysis” will follow, the senator said.

Schumer also claimed the United States only recently discovered these flying objects. “Until a few months ago we didn’t know about these balloons,” he said.

Another UFO appears to have been detected over Montana late Saturday.

North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) detected what it called a “radar anomaly,” leading to a temporary flight restriction over the central part of the state. But a fighter aircraft sent to investigate “did not identify any object to correlate” the radar hits and the restriction was lifted, NORAD added.

The only UFO the U.S. military has publicly identified is the one shot down off the coast of South Carolina last weekend.

That vessel, the U.S. officials say, was a Chinese spy balloon that flew at a high altitude — away from commercial aircraft — across a wide swath of the United States. China claims the airship was a weather balloon that had been blown off course.

Authorities in China said they witnessed a UFO off the coast of a port city, a state-run newspaper claimed on Sunday. “Local maritime authorities in East China’s Shandong Province announced on Sunday that they had spotted an unidentified flying object in waters near the coastal city of Rizhao in the province and were preparing to shoot it down, reminding fishermen to be safe via messages,” said a tweet from the Global Times.