The White House released a statement Saturday night giving details about a call that President Joe Biden had with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau following a military operation that Canada allowed the U.S. military to conduct in its airspace.
NORAD tracked an unidentified object over Canada that was deemed to be a potential threat and a U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor was scrambled to shoot it down.
“The object was closely tracked and monitored by North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) over the last 24 hours and the President has been continually briefed by his national security team since the object was detected,” the White House’s readout of the call said. “Out of an abundance of caution and at the recommendation of their militaries, President Biden and Prime Minister Trudeau authorized it to be taken down.”
“President Biden authorized US fighter aircraft assigned to NORAD to conduct the operation and a US F-22 shot down the object in Canadian territory in close coordination with Canadian authorities,” the statement continued. “The leaders discussed the importance of recovering the object in order to determine more details on its purpose or origin.”
The incident over Canada comes after the U.S. military shot down an unidentified object over Alaskan air space on Friday afternoon. The object, the size of a small car, was flying at 40,000 feet with a “cylindrical shape” over U.S. territorial water when it was shot down.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and the U.S. Northern Command released a statement over the incident on Saturday evening.
“Recovery operations continue today near Deadhorse, Alaska. U.S. Northern Command’s Alaska Command and the Alaska National Guard, in close coordination with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and local law enforcement, are conducting search and recovery activities,” the statement said. “Arctic weather conditions, including wind chill, snow, and limited daylight, are a factor in this operation, and personnel will adjust recovery operations to maintain safety.”
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