The Royal Canadian Air Force deployed several planes on Monday to search for debris from a mysterious object that was shot down over Yukon territory, Canadian Defense Minister Anita Anand said.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) first detected the “high-flying aerial object” over Alaska Friday evening and launched fighter jets to “characterize the nature of the object.”
A US F-22 Raptor shot down the object on Saturday using an AIM 9X missile after a conversation between President Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
FILE PHOTO: A CC-130H Hercules, one of several aircraft deployed by the Royal Canadian Air Force in search of an object that was shot down over Yukon territory on Saturday. (Michael Dodge/Getty Images)
Debris from the object, which Anand said was “cylindrical,” is believed to be in a remote location northeast of Dawson City, a small city about 40 miles east of Canada’s Alaska border.
A CC-130H Hercules, CH-148 Cyclone, CH-149 Cormorant and two CC-138 Twin Otters aircraft are patrolling “complex alpine terrain that is subject to difficult northern weather conditions,” Anand said Monday.
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It is one of four flying objects that were shot down by US fighters this month.
The first, a 200-foot-tall Chinese surveillance balloon, was shot down off the coast of South Carolina on Feb. 4 after flying over the continental United States
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On Friday, another unidentified object was shot down over northeast Alaska, then on Sunday, an octagonal object was shot down over Lake Huron.
Recovery efforts are underway for all four objects. A “significant” portion of the Chinese spy balloon was recovered off the coast of South Carolina, including the payload of the plane’s electronics, a senior defense official told Fox News on Monday.
