US jet shot down object over Canada: Trudeau

Canadian PM says his country's military would recover the wreckage for study

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Saturday that on sorder a U.S. fighter jet shot down an "unidentified object" that was flying high over the Yukon, acting a day after the U.S. took similar action over Alaska.

North American Aerospace Defense Command, the combined U.S.-Canada organization that provides shared defense of airspace over the two nations, detected the object flying at a high altitude Friday evening over Alaska, U.S. officials said. It crossed into Canadian airspace on Saturday.Trudeau spoke with President Joe Biden, who also ordered the object to be shot down. Canadian and U.S.jets operating as part of NORAD were scrambled and it was a U.S. jet that shot down the object.

Canadian Defense Minister Anita Anand told a news conference in Ottawa that the object, flying at around 40,000 feet, had been shot down at 3:41 p.m. EST, approximately 100 miles from the CanadaU.S. border in the central Yukon. A recovery operation was underway involving the Canadian Armed Forces and the RCMP.Hours later, in the U.S., the Federal Aviation Administration said Saturday night it had closed some airspace in Montana to support

Defense Department activities.