since late last night. interestingly, the object was first spotted over alaska. so it is very similar to the object in that sense that we saw on thursday and friday, where the biden administration announced they had shot down another unidentified object off the coast of alaska there. this okay shot down over canada today, was also first spotted over alaska. so that raises some questions about why action wayne county taken sooner. why action wasn t taken sooner. perhaps wasn t at that level where it threatened civilian aircraft. perhaps it was a bit higher than that so they continued to allow it into canada. we are learning that this was a u.s. f-22 that did shoot down this object over canadian territory. and that f-22 was a part, of course, of norad defenses. and president biden and canadian prime minister justin trudeau gave that joint order to shoot
last week where the u.s. has had to shoot down an aerial object over north america. according to the pentagon, norad first detected this latest object on friday evening over alaska. after they monitored it, they saw that it crossed over into canadian airspace, and the president and canadian prime minister spoke and decided to follow the advice of their military officials and decided to authorize shooting it down. it wuls at that time that canadian and american fighter jets through nor raid worked together to try to take down this object with ultimately an american and f-22 shooting it down. it follows the shooting down of another unidentified object near the coast of alaska and just prior to that ordered the shooting down of that suspected chinese spy balloon off the coast of the carolinas. now, the white house still and pentagon still have many questions to answer relating to
the world. i m kim brunhuber. this is cnn newsroom. for the third time in a week a us fighter jet has shot down an unidentified object in airspace. it was taken down by u.s. f-22 fighter jet over the yukon in northwest canada. trudeau and biden authorized the strike by the countries shared defense organization norad. it follows the downing of another unidentified object on friday in alaska and the shoot-down of a suspected chinese surveillance balloon last saturday off the coast of north carolina. it s not clear yet if the incidents are related. cnn s arlette saenz is at the white house with the latest on this developing story. reporter: president biden and canadian prime minister justin trudeau took a very rare step on saturday and jointly authorized the shooting down of an unidentified object over northern canada. this marks the third time in the
some are already there, certainly to look at the actual materials, and to find all these materials. it will take an information of what the pilots saw, as was discussed earlier by dan, and f-22s, and what they were experiencing, what they were watching these objects in the sky, certainly create new diagrams and maps of how these objects got their, and try to construct a full understanding of these objects. and you know, of course, the big 64,000 dollar question is, where did it come from? and hopefully, gathering this information, this intel, will build up that idea. and i think it just demonstrates a strong responsible relationship right now that we re seeing with this defense minister and with our president, and going slow, in terms of ensuring that we re getting the information right, but not going slow in terms of defending our country and our homeland, and certainly, canadian territory as well. but being very responsible in understanding that the facts
unidentified object here. i want to walk you through the details because it s pretty wild here as now we are at the third instance in which president biden had to do something like this. so according to the pentagon, norad first detected this object flying around alaska friday evening. then went over into canadian airspace, which they continued monitoring, the canadians monitored, all yointly coming to the to observe this object. now on saturday after president biden and justin trudeau were briefed they got on a phone call and decided out of an abundance of caution that it was the best option to shoot it down. now, eventually american fighter jet, an f-22 actually shot it down over canadian airspace about 100 miles off the border there. and so now canadians are handling the recovery. some of the details are a bit different than the lack of details we have gotten about friday s object in that chinese