An American fighter shoots down an unspecified object over Canada

A US fighter jet shot down an unidentified object over Canada on Saturday afternoon on the orders of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in a new incident in North American airspace following the downing of a Chinese balloon suspected of spying purposes last week Trudeau said Saturday that an "unidentified object" was shot down in the Yukon Territory while flying over northwestern Canada, the day after the United States destroyed an object that flew over Alaska.

"I have ordered the shooting down of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace," Trudeau wrote on Twitter He added, "Airplanes were sent from Canada and the United States," and an AIM 9X missile fired by an american f-22 managed to "hit" its target.

For his part, Pentagon spokesman Pat Ryder said that US President Joe Biden has authorized the fighter to "work with Canada", noting that it is one of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Trudeau noted that the Canadian forces " She will now collect and analyze the debris of the object.

” Canadian National Defense Minister Anita Anand stated during a press conference on Saturday evening that the object was flying at an altitude of “40,000 feet” (12,200 meters) and that it was dropped “about 100 miles (160 km) from the border ” Canadian-American at 20:40 GMT.

She said it was a "cylindrical device" that was smaller than the balloon that was shot down in North Carolina last week "We are continuing to analyze the object, so it would not be wise to speculate on its provenance," Anand added, thanking the Pentagon and the Canadian and US militaries for their cooperation.

Earlier Saturday afternoon, Anand said on Twitter that she spoke with her US counterpart Lloyd Austin, stressing that "we will always defend our sovereignty together " Also Saturday evening, the US military announced that the airspace was closed over part of Montana, noting that a fighter had been dispatched to verify " Radar glitch, but this plane did not find anything unusual in the sky.

The North American Air Defense detected a radar glitch and sent a fighter plane to check it, but that plane did not identify (the presence of) any object, according to a statement issued For the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and the US Northern Command, the statement confirmed that officials “will continue to monitor the situation.

” The US Civil Aviation Regulatory Authority said in a statement that it had “closed a portion of airspace in Montana in support of Department of Defense operations ” The airspace was reopened later.

Two objects in 24 hours Trudeau spoke with Biden about the target that was shot down over the Yukon region in northwestern Canada bordering Alaska, where US forces had also destroyed, on Friday, another flying object “the size of a small car” because it posed a "threat to the safety of air traffic" According to a spokesman for the national security council in the White House, John Kirby Thus, the object that fell in the Yukon is the second object dropped by the United States in about twenty-four hours.

On Saturday, the search continued for the wreckage of the object that was dropped on Friday, but "winds, cold, snow, and limited daylight" hindered the operation, according to a statement by "NORAD", and explained that the Pentagon could not provide "other details .

about this object, its capabilities, its purpose and its source.

" These two incidents came a week after Washington destroyed a balloon off its Atlantic coast that had flown over sensitive military sites, and Beijing described it as a "civilian aircraft used for research purposes, especially in the field of meteorology " Pictures taken by US military planes show that the Chinese balloon that flew over the United States last week was well equipped with spying tools and was not intended for meteorology.

This diplomatic clash prompted US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to postpone a rare visit to China And the US authorities continue to collect the wreckage of the airship in the Atlantic Ocean near the coast of South Carolina.

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