The Royal Canadian Air Force deployed several aircraft on Monday to search for remains of a mystery object that was shot down over the Yukon Territory, Canadian Defense Minister Anita Anand said.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) first detected the “high-altitude airborne object” over Alaska on Friday night and dispatched fighter jets to “characterize the nature of the object.”
An American 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 the Yukon Territory on Saturday. (Michael Dodge/Getty Images)
The remains of the object, which Anand said was “cylindrical,” are believed to be in a remote location northeast of Dawson City, a small town about 40 miles east of Canada’s border with Alaska.
A CC-130H Hercules, a CH-148 Cyclone, a CH-149 Cormorant and two CC-138 Twin Otters are traversing “complex alpine terrain that is prone to challenging northern weather conditions,” Anand said Monday.
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It is one of four flying objects shot down by US warplanes this month.
The first, a 200-foot-tall Chinese surveillance balloon, was shot down off the coast of South Carolina on February 4 after traveling over the continental US.
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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 has been recovered off the South Carolina coast, including the aircraft’s electronic payload, a senior defense official told Fox News on Monday.
