After coming face to face with the object, one of the pilots first notes: 'I wouldn't really call it a balloon.'

After coming face to face with the object, one of the pilots first notes: 'I wouldn't really call it a balloon.'

'I can see it outside with my eyes,' he adds, before attempting to grapple with how to describe the flying object in front of him.

'Looks like something… there’s some kind of object that’s distended… it’s hard to tell, it’s pretty small,' he says.

Later in the muffled audio, one of the pilots can be heard going into more detail over the size and shape of the UFO.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11749407/Cockpit-audio-reveals-F-16-pilots-shot-UFO-Lake-Huron-didnt-know-was.html