“President Biden today authorized US fighter aircraft assigned to NORAD to work with Canada to bring down a high-altitude aerial object over northern Canada,” Pentagon spokesman Pat Ryder said in a statement.
He said an F-22 fighter jet fired an AIM 9X missile which brought it down.
The White House said Biden and Trudeau spoke Saturday, and “appreciated the strong and effective partnership between NORAD and US Northern Command and their continued close coordination to detect, track and defend our airspace.” agreed upon.”
The object shot down on Saturday was shot down over the Yukon bordering Alaska, where fighter jets shot down another object on Friday near the village of Deadhorse on the US state’s north coast.
Search and recovery operations for the remains of that object continued on Saturday, Northern Command said in a statement, but were hampered by Arctic “wind chill, snow and limited daylight”.
“Recovery activities are taking place on the sea ice,” adding that the Pentagon “could provide no further details about the object, including its capabilities, purpose, or origin.”