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The unidentified airborne object shot out of the sky by US military jets over Canada on Saturday was reportedly a small, metallic balloon with a tethered payload.
Pentagon officials said the object was detected over Alaska late Friday and was closely tracked by US and Canadian military aircraft as it crossed into Canadian airspace before it was taken down over the Yukon Territory by an American F-22 fighter jet around 3:41 p.m. ET.
Canadian Defense Minister Anita Anand told reporters that the object, which was flying at an altitude of 40,000 feet, “appears to be a small, cylindrical object and smaller than the one that was downed off the coast of [South] Carolina” on Feb. 4.
No additional details about the object were immediately available, however Anand added that “there is no reason to believe that the impact of the object in Canadian territory is of any public concern.
