A third unidentified object has been shot down by an Alaska-based F-22 fisher jet, but this one was over the Yukon Territory in Canada. It was requested to be shot down by Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Saturday. Canadian and U.S. aircraft were scrambled, and a U.S. F-22 successfully hit the object, Trudeau said.
“I ordered the take down of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace,” Trudeau wrote on Twitter. “I spoke with President Biden this afternoon. Canadian Forces will now recover and analyze the wreckage of the object. Thank you to NORAD for keeping the watch over North America.”
The item was shot down a day after U.S. jets descended on an object in the Arctic Ocean just north of Deadhorse, Alaska and a week after a China spy airship was shot down over Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Recovery operations are still underway to pick up the pieces of the object that fell onto the ice-covered Arctic Ocean.
Earlier Saturday, the North American Aerospace Defense Command was tracking a “high-altitude airborne object” over the Yukon.
NORAD confirmed the Trudeau report in a statement that said it had “positively identified a high-altitude airborne object over Northern Canada.”
U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, today released the following statement:
“In the last few days, we’ve experienced unprecedented incidences of not only a confirmed Chinese spy balloon, but other unidentified aircraft that have breached the sovereign airspace of Alaska and the rest of the country. I once again commend our military, particularly the Active Duty and Guard forces in Alaska, who have literally been working around the clock for weeks tracking and eliminating this unprecedented challenge, including the Alaska-based F-22 that just shot down another unidentified aircraft over Canada.
“Their priority mission should continue to be protecting and defending American airspace and, importantly, redoubling efforts to recover, exploit and analyze the unidentified aircraft shot down over Alaska and Canada. This needs to be done as quickly as possible in order to fully understand the nature of the threat we are facing right now. It’s important that the Biden Administration provide to the American people as much information as possible on these sightings or any similar incidents.”
