Trudeau Comments on 'Unidentified Object' Shot Down Over Canada

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Sunday that on his order 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 Canada-U.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. NORAD later said the closure, which lasted a little more than an hour, came after it had detected "a radar anomaly" and sent fighter aircraft to investigate. The aircraft did not identify any object to correlate to the radar hits, NORAD said.

F-22 fighter jets have now taken out three objects in the airspace above the U.S. and Canada over seven days, a stunning development that is raising questions on just what, exactly, is hovering overhead and who has sent them.

At least one of the objects downed was believed to be a spy balloon from China, but the other two had not yet been publicly identified.

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[polyron]

"Unidentified Object"

They keep toying with the notion that they are in the process of figuring out what it is, which they know what it is. They are really just playing coy, typical politics.

[zectation]

If the government says “trust me bro”, scream like hell.

[superpoacher]

Maybe it's time to give Canadians their guns back

[JohnPiper]

How could anyone believe a word this corrupt guy says?

[bbgamerofficial]

The BS is strong with this one. They are lying straight to your face about everything.

[Exotic-P]

He doesn't even look like he believes anything he's saying. He knows it was calculated and organized with the US

[tomsellers]

Single largest day of sales for toilet paper in Canadian history.

[psptsmg]

Trudeau thought that it was a Canadian trucker convoy scout.

[JMc_]

If he's talking, he's lying.

[chief]

At least this tyrant addressed his nation 🙄

[shawnrobinson]

“I gave the order” American jet shoots down object. 🤡🤣

[goodguysinc.]

Imagine shooting down a weather balloon to protect the citizens while calling the citizens Nazis at the same time

[wronron]

If Ole blackface is in on it you know they are lying about something

[troverj]

Unidentified, but it's a threat? I'm not buying it.

[jlynn]

He looks like he was about to cry! This object is not unidentified. They know exactly what they are!😠

[FlightLevelzero]

Trudeau and Biden collaborating; what could possibly go wrong?!?!

[dbohler]

Anyone notice that he seemed much more comfortable calling his citizens NAZIs than he was when announcing that he had to shoot down one of his benefactors’ aircraft?

[BruizerBlue]

Keeping his citizens safe while committing democide.
This might be the last psyop before mass awakening.

[Mascotal]

" I gave the official order to let the Americans handle the situation. "

[TECTOS]

Trudeau the only assets you scrambled were eggs for breakfast. It’s pretty sad when American fighter aircraft have to shoot down objects in Canadian airspace.