OTTAWA — The U.S. military shot down a fourth high\u002Daltitude object in just over a week on Sunday, this time closer to heavily populated areas in southern…
Canadian Defence Minister Anita Anand said in a statement Sunday evening that a “high-altitude object” was detected in U.S. airspace over Lake Huron.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails or any newsletter. Postmedia Network Inc.
“You can know that this is something that NORAD and Canada and the United States are taking extremely seriously, and we will continue to keep people informed as we know more,” he said. The undercarriage of the first balloon, which contains the surveillance equipment, was located mostly intact in the water on Friday, but efforts to extract it were delayed until at least Monday because of rough seas.Article content
Beyond Anand’s comments, no size estimate has yet been provided on the third one shot down over Yukon. American officials said over the course of less than a week the object travelled from China, across Alaska, through parts of Canada into Montana and then across the continental U.S. until it was shot down off the coast of South Carolina near Myrtle Beach.Article content
Yukon Premier Ranj Pillai said Saturday the territory had been in contact with the federal government and had already been in talks with federal officials “to discuss Arctic security” over the previous week.Article contentIn a statement issued Sunday, Yukon’s opposition leader Currie Dixon said the incident “reaffirms the need to modernize our North Warning System, as well as for a fully built-out Canadian Armed Forces base in the Yukon.
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