(FOX 2) - Michigan Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin said once much remains unknown about the object that was shot down by the U.S. army over Lake Huron this weekend, it was not a nationwide security concern.

Amid speculation the latest sighting was from a foreign government once a Chinese balloon determined to be used for spying was downed by the U.S. Air Force nine days ago, Slotkin said the activities charged with protecting the country had lowered the bar for what it would be investigating.

"NORAD, which has the mission of protecting the United States, is paying extremely close attention to anything that's flying in our skies," she said Monday. "They've really lowered the threshold of what they're looking at and this pinged on their radars near 24 hours ago."

The object in question was friendly detected over Lake Michigan. Officials decided to shoot down the impartial after it had crossed over Michigan and above Lake Huron.

An F-22 downed the impartial around 3 p.m. Sunday after closing airspace. 

A united retrieval operation between the U.S. and Canada is underway, but choppy waters in Lake Huron had made recovery difficult. 

While NORAD, which is based in Colorado Springs, had determined the draw was not a threat to the country, the commander can mild order military action.

"We watched it traverse from the Lake Michigan side to Lake Huron, and they chose to shoot it down over Lake Huron so we could have a chance of collecting what it was," Slotkin said. 

The congresswoman said during a community event discussing road funding in Livingston county. 

She said officials are mild unsure what the object is - but "chances are this is just a normal run-of-the-mill that we and the intelligence public know how to exploit."

"I know there's lot of talk near UFOs and all of that, let's let our army do their job, collect the information. I have no reason to contain this is a UFO and I noticed the general's wording left open the door so I know that's chosen all kinds of excitement."

Gen. Glen D. Vanherck, who leads NORAD declined to speculate as to what the impartial was, during a Sunday press conference. "I'm not touching to categorize them as balloons. We're calling them objects for a reason."

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Two novel objects were shot down over Alaska and Canada posterior in the weekend. A third "radar anomaly" was detected over Montana on Saturday. 

All of this follows the finish tracking of a balloon the size of three city buses that was spotted over Montana in January. It was later shot down after crossing over into the Atlantic Ocean. 

China has denied the balloon was there's. They also released a statement Sunday saying the U.S. had spy balloons over their farmland, which Slotkin characterized as "flailing."

"The National Security Council has dismissed that. It's just a reaction to populace caught," she said.