The Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, announced this Saturday (11) that an unknown object that violated the country’s airspace and was flying at high altitude had been shot down.

The artifact was detected by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad), an organization formed by Canada and the United States, and shot down while flying over the Yukon, Northwest Territory Canadian, which borders Alaska.

The event comes after the United States shot down an unknown flying object that was flying over Alaska and downed a balloon of Chinese origin, allegedly used by the Beijing regime for espionage tasks.

“I have ordered the downing of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace,” Trudeau wrote on Twitter.

American and Canadian planes took part in the surveillance operation for the artifact, although it was an American F-22 fighter that “successfully fired” on the object, explained the Prime Minister, who worked in coordination with the President of the United States, Joe Biden. .

Trudeau said the Canadian Armed Forces will recover the wreckage of the artifact for analysis.

On Friday, Biden ordered the shooting and shooting down of an unidentified object that was flying over frozen waters in the state of Alaska.

The White House gave no details on the origin of the object, but explained that it was something different from the Chinese balloon which was shot down last week after flying over several American states.

The United States has accused the Chinese government of having developed, with the participation of the armed forces, a balloon program for spy work, which has already flown over more than ten countries, on five continents.

Due to the identification of this balloon, United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken suspended a trip he had planned to Beijing.

China alleges that the plane shot down by the United States was just a weather balloon, which “deviated from its original path” due to “force majeure”.

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