For the third time.. America drops an unknown object over North America
Fighter jets have now shot down three objects in airspace over the United States and Canada in the past week.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Saturday that a US warplane had shot down an unidentified object over North American skies.
This was the second day in a row that the US military shot down an unidentified object.
violation of Canadian airspace
"I have ordered the shooting down of an unidentified object that has violated Canadian airspace," Trudeau wrote on Twitter: " US North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) F-22 fighter jet, which protects Canadian and US airspace, shot down the object over the Yukon, Canada".
Trudeau said he spoke with the US President, Joe Biden, on Saturday and that the Canadian Forces would analyze the body.
3 foreign bodies
Fighter jets have now shot down three objects in airspace over the United States and Canada in the past week.
Canadian Defense Minister, Anita Anand, refused to speculate on the source of the object, which she said was cylindrical in shape.
She stopped short of calling it an airship, but said it was smaller than the Chinese airship that was shot down off the coast of South Carolina a week ago, but similar in appearance. It said it was flying at an altitude of 40,000 feet and posing a danger to civilian air traffic when it was shot down at 3.41am local time (2041GMT).
"There is no reason to believe that the impact of the body on Canadian soil is of any public concern," Anand told a news conference.
Hours later, the airspace over the western US state of Montana was temporarily closed Saturday night after a "radar anomaly" was detected but nothing was found by the fighter jets sent to investigate, NORAD reported.
Shot down another airborne
The shooting down of the latest object over Canada comes just over 24 hours after the US military shot down another airborne object that was in Alaska airspace. On Friday afternoon, an American F-22 fighter jet shot down an object at a high altitude off Deadhorse, Alaska, along the northern coast of the state. Officials said the object entered US airspace but was heading toward the North Pole at 20 to 40 miles per hour.
smaller than the Chinese airship
Canadian Defense Minister, Anita Anand, refused to speculate on the source of the object, which she said was cylindrical in shape.
She stopped short of calling it an airship, but said it was smaller than the Chinese airship that was shot down off the coast of South Carolina a week ago, but similar in appearance. It said it was flying at an altitude of 40,000 feet and posing a danger to civilian air traffic when it was shot down at 3.41am local time (2041GMT).
"There is no reason to believe that the impact of the body on Canadian soil is of any public concern," Anand told a news conference.
Hours later, the airspace over the western US state of Montana was temporarily closed Saturday night after a "radar anomaly" was detected but nothing was found by the fighter jets sent to investigate, NORAD reported.
The shooting down of the latest object over Canada comes just over 24 hours after the US military shot down another airborne object that was in Alaska airspace.
jet shot down an object
On Friday afternoon, an American F-22 fighter jet shot down an object at a high altitude off Deadhorse, Alaska, along the northern coast of the state. Officials said the object entered US airspace but was heading toward the North Pole at 20 to 40 miles per hour.
Despite the balloon-borne technology, the Pentagon said the balloons give China no intelligence-gathering capability beyond existing technology, such as satellites.
The appearance of the Chinese airship over American skies caused a rift in the tense and delicate relations between the Chinese and American governments. The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has postponed a trip to Beijing, which would have been the first visit to the country by a senior US diplomat since 2018.
