Canada. An American fighter shot down an unidentified object over the Yukon. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: There’s still a lot we need to clear up

On Saturday, the North American Air Defense Command (NORADC) detected unidentified object in Canadian airspace. Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau ordered its downing, which was done by an American F-22 fighter. Authorities said the object was cylindrical in shape and was being searched for by the military and federal police. It was shot down over the northern part of the territory Canada.

“I ordered the shooting down of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace. NORAD Command shot down an object over the Yukon. Canadian and US aircraft were immediately called into action and a US F-22 successfully shot down the object,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Twitter.

Speaking to reporters on Sunday, Trudeau said special teams were searching for the downed object.

“Teams are in place to find and then investigate the object,” he said.

“There’s still a lot we need to find out.” Therefore, examining this object will be very important – stressed the Canadian Prime Minister.

Formerly Majority Leader in the US Senate Chuck Schumer told ABC that U.S. officials believe both the object shot down over Canada on Saturday and the one shot down over Alaska on Friday are balloons.

The North American Air Defense Command detected the mysterious object on Friday evening.

US fighters based in Alaska monitored the object as it entered Canadian airspace, and Canadian planes later joined the operation.

“U.S. F-22 shot down an object in Canadian territory using an AIM-9X missile with close co-operation between authorities USA and Canada,” Pentagon spokesman General Patrick Ryder said in a statement.

The Pentagon also reported that the US president Joe Bidenafter talking to Trudeau, authorized the U.S. Army to work with Canada to shoot down the object.

“Leaders discussed the importance of retrieving the object to determine more details about its purpose or origin,” Biden said in a statement after Trudeau spoke.

This is the third object over North America in the past two weeks. After being shot down over the Atlantic a week ago chinese spy balloonthat flew over the USA, on American Friday An F-22 shot down an object over Alaskawho was headed to Canada. The incident took place during Friday’s Canada-US talks on, among other things, air defense modernization in North America. An unknown object flying at an altitude of about 12 km above the ground, the size of a “small car”, was heading towards Canadian airspace, Canadian media reported on Friday. Ahead of the takeoff of the F-22 fighter that shot down the object, second only to a Chinese balloon, the US Aviation Administration banned flights over Bullen Point, a disused radar station about 100 miles from the Canadian border. In the morning, Polish time, the US Federal Aviation Administration announced that it had lifted temporary flight restrictions.