A United States Air Force F-22 fighter shot down an unidentified object in the skies over Canada this Saturday.
It was the third incident of its kind in a short space of time, one day after another object was shot over Alaska and a week after a Chinese spy balloon was shot down after flying over large parts of North America.
The incident on Saturday was disclosed by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a message on the social network Twitter.
Trudeau, who said he was in contact with US President Joe Biden, added that Canadian troops were now trying to recover and analyze debris from the device, which ended up falling in the Yukon, a remote region in the country’s northwest. next to Alaska.
After, a week ago, the Pentagon and the White House accused China, which was recognized as the first balloon detected in North America, details on the two most recent incidents are scarce.
Regarding the object shot down Friday, the Armed Forces said only that it would be the size of a “small car”, flying at 40,000 feet and apparently unmanned: “At this time we have no further information about the object, including its capabilities, purpose , or origin”.
However, the context of these last two incidents is the same as that of the Chinese spy balloons detected last week: rising tensions between Washington and Beijing, with the United States accusing China of running a global spying program through these flying objects, previously cataloged as UFOs.
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