Object is believed to be a surveillance balloon of Chinese or Russian origin, a government official says
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ordered warplanes Saturday to shoot down “an unidentified object” in Canadian airspace over the Yukon, which one government official said was believed to be a surveillance balloon of Chinese or Russian origin.
The last object that violated North American airspace was shot down on Friday by a U.S. fighter jet over American territorial waters, in the Beaufort Sea near the border between Alaska and the Yukon. John Kirby, a spokesman for the White House national-security council, said President Biden ordered the craft shot down on Friday because it was sitting at 12,000 metres, low enough to pose a threat to commercial aircraft. The spy balloon had been far higher, at more than 18,000 metres.
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