The latest flying object seemed to be a small metallic balloon, according to U.S. officials.
“To our knowledge, this is the first time a NORAD operation has downed an aerial object,” she added. NORAD is the North American Aerospace Defense Command, an organization jointly operated by the United States and Canada that provides aerospace warning and protection.shot down the object over the Yukon. Canadian and U.S. aircraft were scrambled, and a U.S. F-22 successfully fired at the object,” Trudeau tweeted Saturday evening.
Trudeau added that he spoke with Biden on Saturday before the object was downed over the Yukon, and that “Canadian Forces will nowA White House statement said that the two heads of state authorized the object to be shot down “and at the recommendation of their militaries.” It continued, “The leaders discussed the importance of recovering the object in order to determine more details on its purpose or origin.
This cylindrical object was detected one day after Biden ordered the military to shoot down another unidentified object floating over Alaska, and one week after the president ordered the military to shoot down a surveillance balloon off the Carolina coast, causing Secretary of StateWhen asked on ABC’s “This Week” if the Biden administration believed each of the unidentified flying objects were balloons, Senate Majority LeaderHe also backed Biden in his decision to wait to shoot down the balloon...
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