patient last week, the u.s. shot down one of these balloons. they said they called it a chinese surveillance balloon. china pushed back, saying it was a weather balloon. what is canada s position? this is an object. this is a cylindrical object that we shot down today. it appears to be a cylindrical object. and we are working to analyze the debris to identify more specifics about this object. it appears to be smaller in size than the one that the united states shut down off the coast of north carolina last week. but at this point, that is the information that i can share. thank you. and is there anything else that you would like to add, that you think is important for canadians to know tonight? i think the importance of
the chinese spy balloon that we found recently. i mean, we should do so as well with these last two objects. more broadly, i think over the next few years, because of technology, not just that s accessible to the average citizen, but our own government, we are going to see it have more ability to hopefully stop these types of incursions in our airspace. so, i think the best way to address this is just to get answers, as much information to the public as possible. and i think the, in particular biden congressman congressman, forgive me. you have rolled me all night. we re gonna go now to canada. it s my top priority, the safety and protection of canadians working in collaboration with our partners, including the united states, norad, and other departments, canada was tracking a high altitude object over central uconn yukon. north american aerospace defense command detected this
object shot down today the canadian defense men sister said it was shot down in the yukon territory. she said it was a joint operation conducted with american f-22 stealth fighter jets, fifth generation fighter jets along with canadian f-15 yet. the the same as navy super hornets. she said there were canadian patrol aircraft flying overhead. oorion aircraft. nighttime has set in. it s a race to the clock to get to the debris before it gets dark. this is the third time in a week american fighter jets shot down
object and launched canadian and u.s. fighter aircraft to investigate. the object was visually i identified using fighter aircraft assigned to norad. [speaking non-english] [speaking non-english] this exemplifies what norad is and what norad does best. and i was pleased to discuss this operation earlier today with my colleague, the united states secretary of defense lloyd austin. today, at the direction of the