Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has acknowledged that another unexplained object has been shot down over North American airspace.
He claimed that the most recent object, which was shot down above Yukon in northwest Canada, “violated Canadian airspace.”
Aircraft from both Canada and the US were dispatched to find the item, which Mr. Trudeau claims was destroyed by a US F-22 fighter jet.
In the past week, three objects have been shot down over North America.
Last weekend, American forces shot down a Chinese balloon, and on Friday, a tiny car-sized unidentified object was shot down off Alaska.
On Saturday, Mr. Trudeau declared that he had given the order and spoken with US Vice President Joe Biden.
He stated on Twitter that the “Canadian military will now recover and analyze the object’s wreckage.”
Anita Anand, the defense minister, told reporters that the most recent unidentified item was caught at approximately 15:41 local time on Saturday while flying over central Yukon at a height of roughly 40,000 feet (12,000 meters).
She called it “tiny” and “cylindrical,” but added that recovery attempts are still ongoing to learn more.
The US Department of Defense provided additional information regarding the mission to shoot down the item, confirming that two F-22 jets took off from a military base in Anchorage, Alaska, and the object was destroyed using an AIM 9X missile.
According to Brig Gen Pat Ryder, the Pentagon’s press secretary, the FBI will work closely with Canadian police.
Separately, the US military scrambled fighter fighters over Montana on Saturday due to the closure of some airspace, but it turned out to be a “radar anomaly” and nothing odd was discovered.
Just a week before the latest object’s appearance above North America, the US also destroyed a suspected Chinese spy balloon.
