Hours after the United States shot down an unidentified object that was flying over the Alaskan area,
Canadian
authorities reported that they had destroyed another similar one that
was circulating over their country.
The order was given by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who announced the demolition of it through his Twitter account shortly after it was alerted about it in his airspace
.
"I ordered the downing of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace," the Canadian president tweeted.
According to him, he was successfully shot down by an American F-22.
It was sighted earlier this Saturday by the
North American Aerospace Defense Command
(Norad), which is made up of the United States and Canada.
The supposed Chinese spy balloon that was shot down days ago by the United States, after considering it a threat.
Reuters photo.
The finding was reported by local media and immediately confirmed by the authorities through a statement sent to Global News.
In it, Narad spokesman Olivier Gallant confirmed that "a high-altitude airborne object has been identified over northern Canada."
In this regard, Gallant said he cannot provide more details.
However, he explained that military aircraft are operating in Canada and Alaska to support Norad's activities in "the defense of North America."
It is the
third unknown object that has been detected in the airborne territory of North America
.
The first of them was seen last weekend over the United States and indicated that it was a spy balloon from China.
The second was alerted this Friday, when Joe Biden gave the order to shoot down another of these that was flying through the frozen water area of Alaska.
The decision was made because he was traveling at an altitude that made him a potential threat to civilian aircraft.
Regarding the latter, the White House has not given details of the origin.
However, he did explain that it was different from the Chinese balloon that was shot down last week after flying over several US states.
Due to both events, the United States denounced the Chinese government for having developed, with the involvement of the Armed Forces, a balloon "program" for espionage work that flew over more than 40 countries on 5 continents.
Due to the discovery of said balloon, the Secretary of State of the United States, Antony Blinken, suspended a trip that he had planned to Beijing.
On the other hand, China defends that the balloon that the United States brought down last Saturday was a meteorological device that "deviated from its original course" due to "force majeure."
The US government's complaint against the Chinese government
The Biden administration provided its fullest description of the first identified flying object, saying the aircraft was part of a global surveillance fleet led by the Chinese military that was capable of collecting electronic communications.
The findings were outlined in a State Department document, according to which the US military had sent Cold War-era U-2 spy planes to track and study the balloon before it was shot down by a fighter jet over the Atlantic Ocean on Saturday.
American surveillance planes took pictures of the balloon while it was still in the air.
Its visible equipment, which included antennae, "was clearly for intelligence surveillance and inconsistent with equipment aboard weather balloons," the State Department said - a rebuttal to the Chinese government's claim that the balloon was a weather machine. civilian that had strayed from its course.
With information from agencies
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