The Prime Minister of Canada announced that an “unidentified object” had been shot down over the country on Saturday.
Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister of Canada, announced on Friday that he had ordered an “unidentified object” to be shot down in Canadian skies, a day after the United States shot down an object flying over Alaska.
“Aircraft from Canada and the United States were dispatched to the scene, and fire from the ‘American F-22’ hit the object,” Justin Trudeau tweeted.
Canada’s Minister of National Defense said on Twitter that she had spoken with her American counterpart, United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, reaffirming a “common defense” of their sovereignty.
This is the second flying object shot down by the United States in some 24 hours. A similar object “the size of a small car” was destroyed on Friday because it posed “a threat to air traffic safety”, according to John Kirby, spokesman for the White House National Security Council.
This intervention takes place a week after Washington shot down a balloon off its Atlantic coast, which had flown over sensitive military sites and had been described by Beijing as a “civilian aircraft used for research purposes, mainly meteorological”.
