“I have ordered the downing of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace,” Trudeau said on Twitter. “Canadian and US fighter jets took off quickly and an American (pursuit) F-22 hit the object,” he said.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Saturday that an “unidentified object” was shot down while flying at a high altitude in the northwest part of the country, a day after the US shot down another “object” that was at a high altitude over Alaska.
“I have ordered the downing of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace,” Trudeau said on Twitter. “Canadian and US fighter jets took off quickly and an American (pursuit) F-22 hit the object,” he said.
The Canadian Armed Forces will “collect and analyze” the debris of the “object”, he added.
Canada’s Defense Minister Anita Anand also underlined via Twitter that she had spoken with her US counterpart Lloyd Austin and reaffirmed that the two countries will “always jointly defend” their national sovereignty.
This is the second “object” shot down by a US fighter in about 24 hours. A flying “object” roughly “the size of a small car” was destroyed yesterday Friday because it posed a “threat to aviation security”, according to John Kirby, a spokesman for the National Security Council of the US presidency.
The two operations came a week after the US Air Force shot down what the Pentagon described as a Chinese spy balloon, which reacted angrily, arguing that it was a weather balloon being used for “scientific research” and had simply veered off course and entered US airspace “unintentionally”.
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