February 11, 2023, Ottawa: The mysterious flying object over northern Canada has been shot down by a US fighter jet. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced. “I have ordered the downing of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace,” Trudeau wrote on Twitter. Shortly before, the North American Air Defense Command had informed Norad that after the downing of a flying object over Alaska on Friday, another was spotted at a high altitude over northern Canada.
Trudeau said that Canadian and American fighter jets were involved in the downing over the Yukon Territory in the northwest of the country. An American F-22 aircraft then fired at the object. “The Canadian Forces will now recover and analyze the debris from the object,” Trudeau said he also spoke to US President Joe Biden on the matter.
The US government had the aircraft shot down over the state of Alaska on Friday because civil air traffic was endangered. However, it was initially unclear where the flying object came from and its purpose. The incident was reminiscent of the Chinese balloon allegedly used for espionage, which the US Air Force had brought down from the sky a week ago.
According to the US government, the object over Alaska was about the size of a small car, much smaller than the Chinese balloon. According to the first findings, the object should not have been manoeuvrable.
