AESIR11 is the USAF F-16C pilot callsign attached to the February 12, 2023 Lake Huron AIM-9X Sidewinder shootdown of an unidentified object. Per micah-hanks’s May 21 2026 preview of pursue Release 02, AESIR11 captured the in-cockpit video that is one of up to 46 aaro-held UAP clips slated for the next PURSUE tranche.
Former AARO director sean-kirkpatrick, in an April 27 2026 center-for-naval-analyses presentation, characterized the Lake Huron incident as one of several early-2023 hobbyist-balloon shootdowns.