NORAD planes shoot down unidentified flying object over central Yukon
OTTAWA—Recovery operations are underway in Yukon after Canadian and U.S. fighter jets scrambled Saturday to shoot down an unidentified and unmanned object, the third such high-altitude incident in a week.
Anand said it was shot down at 3:41 p.m. EST, about 40,000 feet over central Yukon over fears it posed a civilian threat. Anand characterized the mission as the essence of how NORAD is suppose to work, and said a decision was made to have Canadian and U.S. planes in the air to ensure there were “sufficient assets” to ensure it could be taken down.
A second object was shot down after flying into Alaskan airspace on Friday. U.S. officials have not provided any details on what it was, except to say that it was different than the Chinese balloon.
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