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WASHINGTON -- A US fighter jet, acting on orders from President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, shot down another unidentified flying object on Saturday, Canadian and US officials said, in the latest installment of the drama unfolding in the skies of North America “I have ordered the downing of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace,” Trudeau said in a statement posted on Twitter.

He said a US F-22 with the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), which is operated jointly by the US and Canada, shot down the object over the Yukon Territory As with the object Biden ordered taken down near Alaska on Friday, Officials said they had yet to determine what had been shot down from the sky over the Yukon, which borders the northernmost US state.

Trudeau said that he had spoken to Biden on Saturday afternoon “Canadian Forces will now recover and analyze the remains of the object,” he said in his Twitter post, adding: “Thank you to NORAD for keeping an eye on North America.

” The White House said in a statement Saturday that Biden and Trudeau had "discussed the importance of recovering the object to determine more details about its purpose or origin " Speaking at a news conference, Canada's Defense Secretary Anita Anand said the object was cylindrical and smaller than the spy balloon shot down over the Atlantic the previous weekend.

Pentagon officials said late Saturday that radar had picked up the last flying object over Alaska on Friday night and had dispatched US warplanes, soon joined by Canadian fighters, to track it down "Monitoring continued today as the object crossed into Canadian airspace," Brigadier General Patrick Ryder, the Pentagon's press secretary, said yesterday.

The F-22 shot down the object over Canadian territory using a Sidewinder air-to-air missile, the same as the one used to shoot down two previous flying objects, Ryder said, including the Chinese spy balloon a week earlier Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke to Anand by phone on Saturday, Ryder said.

Multiple theories abounded in Washington about the provenance of the objects, But several Biden administration officials warned that much was still unknown about the latest two objects downed The United States has long monitored unidentified flying objects entering US airspace, and officials believe that surveillance operations by foreign powers, weather balloons, or any other aerial confusion may explain the most recent incidents of aerial phenomena.

unidentified (government term for UFOs) as well as many episodes in recent years However, almost all of the incidents officially remain unexplained, according to a report made public in 2021.

Intelligence agencies will deliver a classified document to Congress on Monday to update that report The original document analyzed 144 incidents between 2004 and 2021 that were reported by US Government sources, mostly US military personnel.

It is believed that it is rare for the United States to shoot down UFOs But tensions have been high since the discovery of a Chinese spy balloon in US skies about two weeks ago, prompting Secretary of State Antony Blinken to cancel a planned trip to China.

The surveillance balloon was shot down last weekend The Chinese government acknowledged that the airship was one of its own, but said it was for meteorological research.

Beijing said a similar balloon sighted over Central and South America the same weekend was also for civilian purposes US intelligence agencies have assessed China's spy balloon program as part of a global surveillance effort designed to gather information on the military capabilities of countries around the world, according to three US officials.

Some officials believe the balloon flights are part of an effort by China to hone its ability to collect data on the US military bases, in which it is most interested, as well as those of other nations in the event of conflict or uprising .

US officials said last week that the balloon program has operated from multiple locations in China On Friday, US officials revealed that the military had shot down an unidentified flying object over the Arctic Ocean near Alaska "out of an abundance of caution," John Kirby, a spokesman for the National Security Council, said at a news conference Friday.

US northern command troops were working Saturday with Alaska National Guard units, the FBI and local police near Deadhorse, Alaska, to recover it and determine its nature, defense department officials said With recovery activities taking place on sea ice, in sub-zero temperatures and with limited daylight, service members are forced to move slowly, officials said.

“We have no further details at this time about the object, including its capabilities,.