OUR Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the “unidentified object” was shot down while flying at high altitude in the northwestern part of the country, a day after the US shot down another “object” at high altitude over Alaska.

“I ordered the downing of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace,” Trudeau tweeted. “Canadian and American fighters took off quickly, and the American (pursuing) F-22 hit the object,” he said.

He added that the Canadian Forces would “collect and analyze” the wreckage of the “object”.

I spoke with President Biden this afternoon. The Canadian Forces will now recover and analyze the wreckage of the facility. Thanks to NORAD for watching North America.

— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) February 11, 2023

Canadian Defense Minister Anita Anand also stressed on Twitter that she spoke with her US counterpart Lloyd Austin and reaffirmed that the two countries “will always jointly defend” their national sovereignty.

This is the second “object” shot down by a US fighter in about a day. A flying “object” about the size of a small car was destroyed Friday yesterday because it posed a “threat to aviation security,” according to John Kirby, a spokesman for the US President’s National Security Council.

The two operations were carried out a week after the US Air Force shot down what the Pentagon called a Chinese spy balloon, which reacted angrily, saying it was a weather balloon used for “scientific research” and that it simply veered off course. and entered the United States. airspace “unintentionally”.

No “object” in the sky in Montana

In the meantime, the fighter hastily took off to investigate the “radar anomaly”, but its operator did not detect any “object” on the air of the US state of Montana, where earlier on Saturday night it was announced that the airspace was closed. closed as a precaution by the US military.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) “detected a radar anomaly and dispatched a fighter aircraft to investigate. The aircraft did not detect any objects matching the “spot” of the radar anomaly, the statement said, adding that it “will continue to monitor the situation” hours after the Canadian-US operation resulted in the downing of “an unidentified aircraft.” object” in the airspace over Yukon, Canada.

^{According to AFP, APE-MPE}