Justin Trudeau says he ordered an unidentified cylindrical object shot down over Yukon Saturday because it posed a threat to planes.
The undercarriage of the first balloon, which contains the surveillance equipment, was located mostly intact in the water on Friday, but efforts to extract it were delayed until at least Monday because of rough seas.
The second object that was shot down over Alaska Friday was said to be about the size of a small car. It has not yet been recovered. The initial balloon was flying at about 18,000 metres, which is higher than most civilian aircraft. The second and third were spotted at altitudes of about 12,000 metres, which is at the top end of the normal cruising height for more commercial airplanes.Article contentTrudeau said at that height, the object over Yukon “represented a reasonable threat to civilian aircraft, so I gave the order to take it down.
The North American Aerospace Defence Command publicly revealed its presence over northern Canada on Saturday afternoon. Both American and Canadian military jets were scrambled to take it out under the command of NORAD.Canadian and U.S. authorities have had little to say about the objects or their intended purpose beyond surveillance. China has insisted the first balloon was a meteorological surveillance balloon that accidentally drifted off course and into the U.S.
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