US shoots down ‘unidentified object’ that violated airspace over Canada

 Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau said that a US fighter jet shot down an unidentified airborne object over Yukon Saturday.

“I ordered the take down of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace,” Trudeau tweeted. ”Canadian and U.S. aircraft were scrambled, and a U.S. F-22 successfully fired at the object.”

Previously, security sources had told Canada’s Global News Saturday that one or two new airborne objects that could be additional spy balloons were being monitored by NORAD, the joint US-Canada military response team that oversees the continent’s air defenses.

Canada closed its airspace over parts of Yukon Saturday afternoon due to an “active air defense operation.”

Recovery operations continued Saturday near Deadhorse, Alaska to retrieve the remnants of a still-unidentified object that penetrated American airspace before being shot down Friday, the US Northern Command said.

The search, which was being conducted on sea ice, was hampered by “arctic weather conditions, including wind chill, snow, and limited daylight,” the command said. “We have no further details at this time about the object, including its capabilities, purpose, or origin.”

The mysterious object managed to penetrate American airspace unobserved, Fox News reported.

https://nypost.com/2023/02/11/norad-monitoring-possible-spy-balloons-nearing-us-airspace/