Canada shot down another unidentified flying object over its airspace on Saturday on the orders of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, as reported by the latter on his Twitter account. “I ordered the downing of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace,” he said. The US Joint Air Command shot down the object over the Yukon in the northwest of the country, near Alaska. “Canadian and American aircraft were mobilized and an American F-22 successfully fired on the object,” he added.
Trudeau spoke this afternoon with United States President Joe Biden about the incident. “The Canadian Forces will now recover and analyze the remains of the object. Thank you Norad [Defensas Aéreas de Norte América, en sus siglas inglesas] for monitoring America,” Trudeau said.
Norad was monitoring an unidentified high-altitude flying object hovering over northern Canada. Norad is a joint organization of Canada and the United States that provides air defense and control for all of North America. The operation comes a day after the White House announced the downing of another high-flying object in Alaskan airspace and the recovery and analysis of debris from the Chinese balloon shot down last week. are continuing.
The Pentagon later explained that Norad detected the object over Alaska late Friday afternoon. Two F-22 aircraft from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, kept an eye out for the object over US airspace with the assistance of Alaska Air National Guard refueling aircraft, the following closely and taking the time to characterize the nature of the object. Surveillance continued today as the object passed through Canadian airspace, with Canadian CF-18 and CP-140 aircraft joining the formation to further assess the object.
Following a call between Trudeau and Biden, the US president authorized US fighter jets assigned to Norad to work with Canada to shoot down the object at high altitude over northern Canada. An American F-22 shot down the object on Canadian soil using an AIM 9X missile. US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Canadian Defense Minister Anita Anand also spoke. “While Canadian authorities conduct recovery operations to help our countries obtain more information about the object, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will work closely with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police,” the general said. Canada in the press release. Pentagon spokesperson.
The object has been closely monitored and tracked by Norad for the past 24 hours and the President has been continuously briefed by his national security team since the object was detected, according to the White House. Washington gave no explanation as to why this object was allowed to cross Alaska, instead of shooting it over the sea (like the one on Friday) when entering airspace American.
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In their call, Biden and Trudeau discussed the importance of recovering the object to determine more details about its purpose or origin. The two leaders “welcomed the strong and effective collaboration of Norad and U.S. Northern Command and agreed to continue their close coordination to detect, track and defend” their airspace, according to the summary of the appeal provided by the White House.
airspace closures
The United States and Canada closed part of their airspace to traffic on Saturday. Canada did this for the operation to shoot down the suspicious object. In the case of the United States, it has been closed for a few hours in the region of Le Havre, Montana, near the border with Canada, due to an anomaly detected on radar. The air force sent fighters to investigate, but found no objects linked to the detected signals. Even so, air command warned it was continuing to monitor the situation. The confusion has been heightened because Republican Congressman Matt Rosendale he took for granted on his Twitter account that there was another object that he could interfere with air traffic, ensuring he was in direct contact with Pentagon commanders.
Regarding the object shot down this Friday over Alaskan waters (the “size of a small car”, according to the White House), Norad reported this Saturday that recovery operations continue this Saturday in Deadhorse , in northeast Alaska, near the border with Canada. . “The Alaska Command of the United States Northern Command and the Alaska National Guard, in close coordination with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and local law enforcement, are conducting search and recovery”, said in a statement.
Arctic weather conditions, including wind chill, snow and limited daylight, make the operation difficult, according to the air command, which prioritizes the safety of rescue teams, as activities unfold on the ice floe. “We have no further details at this time on the object, including its capabilities, purpose, or origin.” The mystery continues.
More UFOs Recorded
The recent hypersensitivity to unidentified flying objects that has led to the fall of two people in the past two days stems in part from the discovery of a Chinese balloon that crossed the United States last week. The official number of unidentified aerial phenomena, however, has skyrocketed recently, according to a report released by the Pentagon earlier this year.
In this report, 366 UFOs and other phenomena were added to the list. Of these, “more than half had mundane characteristics”, according to the report. There are 195 cases which were characterized primarily as balloons (163), drones (26) and other disturbances such as birds, weather phenomena or airborne debris such as plastic bags (6).
There remain, however, 171 sightings whose explanation is not attributed. Some of these uncharacterized phenomena “appear to have demonstrated unusual flight characteristics or performance capabilities and require further analysis,” the Pentagon said.
Most reports of sightings come from US Navy and US Air Force pilots and operators who witnessed the phenomenon in the course of their operational duties and reported through official channels. The recent cadence has been an unidentified phenomenon every other day or so. According to the Pentagon, many reports lack sufficiently detailed data to allow attribution with high certainty. But what is more recent is the Air Force’s response with the expedited and widely publicized shootout.
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