Canada has shot down an unknown object flying over its territory

Hours after the United States shot down an unidentified object flying over the Alaska area, authorities Canada They reported destroying another similar one widespread in his country.

The order was given by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who announced the scrapping through his Twitter account shortly after being alerted in his airspace.​

“I have ordered the downing of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace,” the Canadian president tweeted. As it turned out, he was successfully shot down by an American F-22.

The same has been spotted earlier this Saturday since North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad), consisting of the United States and Canada.

The discovery was reported by local media and immediately confirmed by the authorities through a statement sent to Global News.

In it, Narad’s spokesman Olivier Gallant confirmed that “a high-flying aerial object has been identified over northern Canada.”

In this regard, Gallant said he could not provide more details. However, he explained that military aircraft are operating in Canada and Alaska to support NORAD’s “defense of North America” ​​activities.

Regard third unknown object to be detected in the North American air territory. The first was seen last weekend in the US and indicated that it was a spy balloon originating from China.

The second was alerted this Friday when Joe Biden gave the order to shoot down another one that was flying across the Alaskan frozen water patch. The decision was made because he was traveling at an altitude that made him a potential threat to civilian aircraft.

As for the latter, the White House did not provide details on its origin. However, he explained that it was different from the Chinese balloon that was shot down last week after flying over several US states.

Due to both events, the United States has denounced the Chinese government for having developed, with the involvement of the Armed Forces, a balloon “program” for espionage activities that has flown over more than 40 countries on 5 continents.

Due to the finding of said balloon, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken suspended a trip he had planned to Beijing.

China, on the other hand, claims that the balloon shot down last Saturday by the United States was a meteorological device that “deviated from its original course” due to “force majeure”.

The complaint of the US government against the Chinese government

The Biden administration has provided its most complete description of the first flying object identified, saying the aircraft was part of a Chinese military-led global surveillance fleet capable of gathering electronic communications.

The findings were outlined in a State Department document, according to which the US military had sent Cold War-era U-2 spy planes to track and study the balloon before it was shot down Saturday by a fighter over the Atlantic Ocean.

American surveillance planes photographed the balloon while it was still in flight. Its visible equipment, which included antennas, “was clearly for intelligence surveillance and inconsistent with equipment aboard weather balloons,” the State Department said — a rebuttal to the Chinese government’s claim that the balloon was a weather machine. .