WASHINGTON: The US and Canada were working on Sunday (Feb 12) to recover the remnants of three mysterious objects shot down over their territory, amid growing jitters that resulted in several brief air-space closures in recent days. Reflecting the heightened state of alert, US authorities on Sunday first a
WASHINGTON: The US and Canada were working on Sunday to recover the remnants of three mysterious objects shot down over their territory, amid growing jitters that resulted in several brief air-space closures in recent days.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meantime was heading Sunday to the western Yukon territory, where an unidentified object was shot down a day earlier.A senior Republican on Sunday accused Beijing of"an act of belligerence" regarding the first balloon, shot down February 4 off the US East Coast after officials said it was engaged in spying.
Trudeau's visit comes a day after a US F-22 jet, acting on orders from the prime minister and US President Joe Biden, downed a"high-altitude airborne object" over the Yukon, about 160km north of the border.The Trudeau visit had been planned earlier - he was already scheduled to meet with Indigenous leaders -- but he said Sunday in Ottawa that some of those leaders might have been affected by falling debris from the object shot down Saturday.
Operations were also continuing off the South Carolina coast, where the past week's drama climaxed when the initial large balloon was shot down on Feb 4.Culminating a weekend with the military on alert, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said on Twitter that Sunday's Lake Michigan closure was"to ensure the safety of air traffic in the area during NORAD operations. The temporary flight restriction has since been lifted.
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