yes, we didn t get a lot of information about the object itself. of course, we have a ton of questions. one piece of information we did get was that in addition to that f-22s from the u.s., there were also f-18s from canada involved in that approach. another thing i was struck by, joel, right? there was a question during the q&a about whether or not there was any belief that this object was tied to china. you had the defense minister being very careful, they re saying, we do not know. we do not have full information yet. we have a lot of analysis that needs to take place. i wonder if you, joel, can walk us through what that analysis looks like, right? they now have debris. they are going to examine it. how do they begin the assessment? i imagine it has already begun, the assessment of the place and origin of these objects. that is right, alicia. there is the actual materials that will be recovered. the fbi teams will go up there,
details a because it s a lot. this is the third time we are talking about this. according to the pentagon, norrard first really spotted these objects flying over alaska friday evening and then went into canadian airspace and so, obviously, the canadians have been synced up with the u.s. over the last week really dealing with these other objects so they again continue to monitor this new object until president biden and justin trudeau sometime on saturday hopped on the phone and bafrl decided together that the best option here was out of abundance of caution to shoot down this unidentifiable object. this happened really ultimately by an american fighter jet, an f-22 shooting down the unidentified on really about 100 miles from the u.s./canadian border here. but you re right. there are a lot to of unanswered questions here when it comes to what this object was, what the friday object was, and of course, what that chinese spy balloon was doing as it transversed the u.s. and whether or not
object violated canadian air space and was taken down by a u.s. f-22 fighter jet over the yukon in the northwest of canada. mr. trudeau and u.s. president joe biden authorized the strike by the country s shared air defense organization, norad. we ll hear more from canada s defense minister. it appears to be a small, cylindrical object and smaller than the one that was downed off the coast of north carolina. there is no reason to believe that the impact of the object in canadian territory is of any public concern. cnn s natasha bertron has been following this story from washington. reporter: president biden and canadian prime minister justin trudeau jointly authorized the shoot-down of an unidentified object that was flying over northern canada saturday. the shoot-down was the third time in a week that u.s. fighter jets were scrambled to shoot down an object that had entered
watchdog that oversees how public appointments are made. katie razzall reporting there. the royal college of nursing is considering escalating its strike action in england, with nurses walking out for 48 continuous hours, and staff in accident and emergency, intensive care and cancer care asked to join the walkouts. union sources have said they would however continue to provide the minimum legal levels of cover required. the government has urged nurses to call off their strikes. an unidentified object has been shot down after it had been flying over the northwestern part of canada. the canadian prime minister, justin trudeau, said us and canadian aircraft were scrambled, and an american fighter aircraft shot the object down. it s the third object to be shot down over north america in the last week, as tim allman reports. the f-22 the f 22 fighter jet the f 22 fighterjet one of the
unidentified object over northern canada. this marks the third time in just the last week where the u.s. has had to shoot down an aerial object over north america. now, according to the pentagon, norad first attempted this on friday evening over alaska. 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 was at that time that canadian and american fighter jets through norad worked together to try to take down this object with ultimately an american f-22 shooting it down. now, this follows just one day prior on friday when president biden ordered the shooting down of another unidentified unmanned object near the coast of alaska. and just one week prior to that ordered the shooting down of that suspected chinese spy balloon off the coast of the carolinas.