Breaking: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says a US warplane shot down an unidentified object that was flying high over northern Canada, a day after US planes took similar action over Alaska
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Saturday that on his order a US warplane shot down an unidentified object that was flying high over northern Canada, acting a day after US planes took similar action over Alaska.
A spokesman, Major Olivier Gallant, said both Canadian and US warplanes operating as part of NORAD had been deployed. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ordered that the unidentified object over northern Canada be shot down.A suspected Chinese spy balloon spent nearly a week flying through Canada and US airspace before it was shot down by US warplanes off South Carolina last Sunday.
In a statement, the Northern Command said there were no new details on what the object was that a US fighter jet shot down over Alaska. It said the Alaska Command and the Alaska National Guard, along with the FBI and local law enforcement, were conducting search and recovery.
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