A UFO expert, who sits on a NASA panel set up to study unexplained sightings, has claimed that we can “learn a lot” if the mystery oblong object shot down over Lake Huron, US, is recovered.

The object shot down on Sunday (February 12) was the third strange object in the sky shot down in the past few days, with even top ranking intelligence officials stumped as to what they could be.

A conversation heard between the pilots hurtling through the air reveals their confusion.

One is heard saying: "I wouldn’t really call it a balloon… I don’t know what… I can see it outside with my eyes."

Military officials later described the object as an "octagonal structure”, but the pilot called it a “container”.

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