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
led to the decisions. jon: do we know, is recovery effort still going on at night or is it going to be suspended until daybreak? the shootdown over alaska yesterday, norad in a previous statement this evening said because of the rough weather minus 20 degrees, 20 degrees wind chill because of limited daylight in wintertime practically behind north, the days are short. recovery effort has been curtailed this evening. you had air force special operations helicopter and fort richardson. that s been suspended. you have a c-130 rescue aircraft, he will have drones overhead potentially and infrared, you can t see the military operate at night equally. there s no question now that nighttime has suspended across
he said us and canadian aircraft were scrambled and that an american fighter aircraft shot the object down. mr trudeau broke the news in a tweet, adding that canadian forces will now recover and analyze the wreckage of the object. he thanked north american aerospace defense command for keeping the watch over north america. idrees ali is the pentagon correspondent for news agency reuters. hello to you. can you talk us through what has been said about these two objects and i appreciate it could be brief because we do not know an awful lot. ~ ., ., ., ,, ., , lot. we do not and essentially yesterday. lot. we do not and essentially yesterday. on lot. we do not and essentially yesterday, on friday, - lot. we do not and essentially yesterday, on friday, and - yesterday, on friday, and object that was flying at about 40,000 feet was shocked down over alaska. 40,000 feet was shocked down overalaska. 40,000 feet was shocked down over alaska. shot down. we thought that was the end of i
norad to conduct the operation in a u.s. f-22 shot down the object in close coordination with canadian authorities. the leaders discussed the importance of recovering the object in order to derrell more details on its purpose or origins. norad has been tracking this object for the last 24 hours and the white house says president biden was continual ly briefed n this matter. this come just one day after the president had ordered the shooting down of another unidentified high-altitude object that was near the alaskan coast. so many questions involving both of these objects. whether there s any relation. and they re trying to determine what exactly the origin and the purpose of these objects were. of course, it was just one week ago today when the president had ordered down the shooting of that suspected chinese spy balloon that actually ended up happening out over the waters off the carolinas coast.
that justin trudeau order it be taken down over the uconn. after a u.s. f-22 successfully fired at the object. this coming as urgent questions remain about what the u.s. military shot out of the sky off the coast of alaska yesterday. the pentagon confirming the military and fbi are working together to recover what they can of the object. and hopefully get some answers. but arctic conditions, wind, snow and little daylight, making that operation treacherous. the white house says president biden on recommendation from military leaders gave the order friday morning for an f-22 fighter jet to shoot down the unidentified object before the government could confirm its owner, its origin or its exact purpose. we do not know who owns it. whether it s a whether it s state owned or or corporate owned or privately owned. we just don t know. reporter: the object taken down off the very northeastern edge of alaska.