Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Saturday that on his order a US fighter jet shot down an 'unidentified object' that was flying high over the Yukon, acting a day after the US took similar action over Alaska. Read more:
VANCOUVER, British Columbia: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Saturday that on his order a US fighter jet shot down an 'unidentified object' that was flying high over the Yukon, acting a day after the US took similar action over Alaska.North American Aerospace Defense Command, the combined US-Canada organization that provides shared defense of airspace over the two nations, detected the object flying at a high altitude Friday evening over Alaska, US officials said.
later said the closure, which lasted a little more than an hour, came after it had detected 'a radar anomaly' and sent fighter aircraft to investigate. The aircraft did not identify any object to correlate to the radar hits, spokesman, Maj. Olivier Gallant, said the military had determined what it was but would not reveal details.Anand refused to speculate whether the object shot down over Canada came from China.'We are continuing to do the analysis on the object and we will make sure that analysis is thorough,' she said. 'It would not be prudent for me to speculate on the origins of the object at this time.
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