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The Associated Press
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Saturday that a US warplane shot down an unidentified object flying high over the north of the country on his orders, a day after the United States shot down another similar device. In alaska.
Shortly before Trueau's tweet, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said it had detected a high-flying object over Canada.
NORAD gave no further information.
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On Twitter, Trudeau said: “I have ordered the downing of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace.
@NORAD Command shot down the object over the Yukon.
(...) An American F-22 fired successfully at the object”.
It is the third flying object to violate the airspace of a North American country in the past two weeks.
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