US fighter jet shoots down unidentified object over Canada

A US F-22 fighter jet shot down an unidentified object over Canada on Saturday.

The US shot down an unidentified object that was flying over Canada on Saturday, in the second incident in two days that comes one week after the Pentagon took down a Chinese spy balloon off the US coast.

North American Aerospace Defense Command, the combined U.S.-Canada organization that provides shared defense of airspace over the two nations, said it had detected an object flying at a high altitude over northern Canada

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Saturday afternoon said he had ordered the shooting down of “an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace” and that the target was taken out over the Yukon.

An American F-22 fighter jet shot down the unmanned object as part of an operation conducted by the North American Aerospace Defense Command [Norad], a joint US-Canadian command responsible for defending the continent. 219