Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the U.S. shot down an unidentified flying object over the Yukon, Canada at his request.
An American F-22 fighter jet has shot down a car-size unidentified flying object over Yukon, Canada, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Saturday .
"I ordered the take down of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace," Trudeau wrote on Twitter . RELATED STORIES—Aliens haven't contacted Earth because there's no sign of intelligence here, new answer to the Fermi paradox suggests—Scientists are working on an official 'alien contact protocol' for when ET phones Earth
It criss-crossed land over Alaska before heading out to sea. It was flying toward the North Pole when it was shot down over the Arctic Ocean off the coast of Canada, John F. Kirby, a spokesman for the National Security Council, said in a news briefing on Friday . Thus far, the U.S. does not see evidence that that object posed a military threat, officials said.
And just a week ago, a Chinese spy balloon was destroyed Feb. 4 after being detected over Idaho in late January. That balloon, which was much larger than the object shot down over Canada this week, was traveling tens of thousands of feet above civilian airspace and was allowed to cross into the Atlantic Ocean before being taken down by an air-to-air-missile.
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