The Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, announced this Saturday (11) that an unknown object that violated the country’s airspace and was flying at a high altitude was shot down.
The artifact was detected by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad), an organization formed by Canada and the United States, and shot down while flying over Yukon, territory in the Canadian northwest, which borders Alaska.
The event comes after the US shot down an unknown flying object that was flying over Alaska and brought down a balloon of Chinese origin, allegedly used by the Beijing regime for espionage tasks.
“I ordered the downing of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace,” Trudeau wrote on Twitter.
US and Canadian aircraft participated in the operation to monitor the artifact, although it was an American F-22 fighter that “successfully fired” at the object, explained the prime minister, who worked in coordination with the president of the United States, Joe Biden .
Trudeau said that the Canadian Armed Forces will recover the wreckage of the artifact to analyze it.
On Friday, Biden ordered the shooting and shooting down of an unidentified object that was flying over frozen Alaskan waters.
The White House gave no details about the object’s origin, but explained that it was something different from the Chinese balloon that was shot down last week after flying over several American states.
The US accused the Chinese government of having developed, with the involvement of the Armed Forces, a program of balloons for espionage work, which would have already flown over more than ten countries, in five continents.
Because of the identification of this balloon, the Secretary of State of the United States, Antony Blinken, suspended a trip he had scheduled to Beijing.
China alleges that the apparatus shot down by the US was just a weather balloon, which “deviated from its original course” due to “force majeure”.
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