Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Saturday that a flying object was shot down over the Yukon.
In a statement posted on Twitter, he said he “ordered the grounding of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace.” Canadian and American aircraft were deployed in the area. The object was eventually shot down by an American F-22.
I ordered an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace to be brought down. THE @NORADCommand shot down the object over the Yukon. Planes from Canada and the United States were dispatched to the scene, and fire from the US F-22 hit the object.
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) February 11, 2023
Mr. Trudeau added that he had discussed it with the American president, Joe Biden, in the afternoon. “The Canadian Forces will now repatriate and analyze the wreckage of the object,” he wrote.
About an hour earlier, NORAD had said a flying object had been spotted high over northern Canada.
A military spokesman, Major Olivier Gallant, did not specify what this object was or what it was doing over the country. He had not revealed his exact location.
It is the third flying object to violate North American airspace in the past two weeks.
A week ago, a Chinese balloon suspected of espionage was shot down by the American air force after having violated American and Canadian airspace.
A US fighter jet shot down a second unknown object in the sky off the Alaskan coast near the Canadian border on Friday, White House officials confirmed.
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