Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau held a press conference on Saturday 11

Justin Trudeauthe prime minister of Canadaannounced this Saturday 11, that a unidentified flying object was shot down after violating the country’s airspace. The artifact was detected by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)an organization formed by Canada and WE, and shot down while flying over the Yukon, a territory in northwestern Canada, which borders Alaska. The episode takes place after the United States shot down an unknown flying object that was flying over Alaska and shot down a balloon of Chinese origin, supposedly used by the Beijing regime for espionage duties. “I have ordered the downing of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace,” Trudeau wrote on social media.

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 recover wreckage of the artifact for analysis. On Friday, Biden ordered the shooting and downing of an unidentified object that was flying over frozen Alaskan waters. The White House did not elaborate on the origin of the target, but said it was something different from the Chinese balloon that was shot down last week after flying over several US 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 10 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”.

*With information from the EFE Agency