On Saturday, a US warplane shot down an “unidentified object” flying high above the yukona day after the United States took a similar action on Alaska.
White House National Security Council spokesman John KirbyHe said at a press conference that he still “they have not been able to definitively assess what these objects are, but that there are “no indications of extraterrestrial activity” in the downed objects.
“No indication of aliens… with these recent shootdowns, (I) wanted to make sure the American people knew about it,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters, after a senior US official refused to rule out that a day earlier .
The North American Aerospace Defense Command, the combined U.S.-Canada organization that provides shared defense of the two nations’ airspace, detected the high-flying object Friday night over Alaska, U.S. officials said. It crossed Canadian airspace on Saturday.
Kirby added that The United States has not yet determined what the objects are, but does not believe they pose a direct threat, except for concerns about civil aviation. However, since it could not be ruled out that they were not carrying out surveillance activities, they decided to shoot them down: “[El presidente Biden] he ordered it on the recommendation of Pentagon leadership. He wanted it removed. And they did that. They did it using fighter aircraft assigned to US Northern Command”.
Canadian Defense Minister, Anita Anand, told a news conference in Ottawa that the object, which was flying at about 40,000 feet, had been shot down at 3:41 p.m. EST, about 100 miles from the Canada-US border in central Yukon. A recovery operation involving the Canadian Armed Forces and the RCMP was underway.
Hours later, in the United States, the Federal Aviation Administration said late Saturday that it had closed some airspace in Montana to support Defense Department activities. NORAD later said the shutdown, which lasted just over an hour, came after it detected “a radar anomaly” and sent fighter jets to investigate. The aircraft did not identify any objects to correlate with the radar hits, NORAD said.
F-22 fighter jets now They have shot down three objects in the airspace over the US and Canada for seven daysa startling development that raises questions about what, exactly, is floating over their heads and who sent them.
On the other hand, the United States categorically denied China’s claims that US balloons have flown over its territory at least ten times in the past year.
“Is not true. We have not made it. It’s not true at all,” Kirby said on the network. MSNBC.
(With information from AFP and AP)
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