The US shot down an unidentified object that was flying over Canada on Saturday, within the second incident in two days that comes one week after the Pentagon took down a Chinese language spy balloon off the US coast.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Saturday afternoon mentioned he had ordered the capturing down of “an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace” and that the goal was taken out over the Yukon.

An American F-22 fighter jet shot down the unmanned object as a part of an operation performed by the North American Aerospace Protection Command [Norad], a joint US-Canadian command answerable for defending the continent.

“I spoke with President Biden this afternoon. Canadian Forces will now get better and analyse the wreckage of the item. Thanks to Norad for conserving the watch over North America,” Trudeau wrote on Twitter.

The US defence division mentioned two F-22s had monitored the item because it flew over US airspace late on Friday night. It added that the fighters continued to observe the item, together with Canadian plane, because it flew from Alaska into Canada.

The F-22 shot the item with an AIM 9X missile — the identical weapon used to shoot the Chinese language spy balloon final week, based on the Pentagon.

On Friday, the US navy shot down a “high-altitude object” that was the scale of a automobile off the coast of Alaska. The 2 incidents come as Washington and Ottawa stay on excessive alert following the current one-week incursion into US and Canadian air house by a big Chinese language spy balloon.

A US F-22 final Saturday shot down the Chinese language surveillance balloon, which China insists was a civilian craft conducting meteorological analysis.

The Biden administration on Friday put six Chinese language teams with alleged connections to China’s spy balloon programme on the “entity record”, which successfully bars American agency from offering them with US expertise.

The White Home didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark concerning the incident on Saturday.

Norad and US Northern Command mentioned the US navy was conducting restoration operations close to Deadhorse, Alaska, together with the FBI and native police to salvage the stays of the item that was shot down on Friday. In an announcement they mentioned the search and rescue operation was dealing with Arctic climate circumstances.

Northern Command can be persevering with a salvage operation off the coast of South Carolina the place the Chinese language balloon landed final Saturday after it was hit by a Sidewinder missile. It mentioned the FBI was taking custody of the particles that’s being recovered from the downed balloon by Navy divers and underwater unmanned autos.

The drama of the spy balloon has derailed efforts to stabilise the US-China relationship which has sunk to its lowest degree because the nations normalised diplomatic relations in 1979.

US secretary of state Antony Blinken cancelled a go to to China on the final minute in response to the incursion and Beijing’s refusal to confess that it was a spy vessel. The Pentagon has subsequently revealed that China flew three balloons over components of the US throughout the Trump administration and one balloon via US airspace early within the Biden administration.

Canadian defence minister Anita Anand mentioned she had mentioned the scenario along with her US counterpart, Lloyd Austin.

“I mentioned this with @SecDef Austin and reaffirmed that we’ll at all times defend our sovereignty collectively,” Anand wrote on Twitter.

However Heino Klinck, a former senior Pentagon official and professional on the Individuals’s Liberation Military, mentioned that if there was a reference to China it could recommend the Chinese language navy was altering the best way it operated.

“If that is all China’s doing, it’s an actual manifestation of how their counter-normative behaviour has expanded, not solely geographically, but in addition operationally,” Klinck mentioned.