In February last year, an F-22 fighter jet of the US military shot down an unidentified flying object (UFO) in Canadian airspace. Now, 19 months later, the Canadian Department of National Defense has released pictures of this mysterious object.
According to a report by Canadian CTV News on September 25, the television station obtained a blurry image of the object from the Canadian Department of National Defense through an access to information request. It appears to be a printed copy of an email.
The cylindrical object captured in the image was shot down by a US F-22 fighter jet in the Yukon Territory of Canada on February 11, 2023. The fighter jet belonged to the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).
This unidentified object initially appeared in the airspace over Alaska, then crossed into the Yukon Territory of Canada. Following consultations between Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau and US President Biden, the US military and Canada collaborated to deploy an F-22 fighter jet armed with AIM-9X Sidewinder missiles to shoot down the object.
Trudeau took to the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) on that day, stating, “I ordered the shooting down of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace. The (fighter jets of) NORAD shot down the object in the Yukon Territory. Canadian and US aircraft were scrambled, and a US F-22 fighter jet successfully fired at the object (bringing it down).”
From February 10 to 12 of that year, a total of three unidentified objects were discovered in North American airspace, each being shot down over Alaska, the Yukon Territory, and above Lake Huron. These objects were smaller than the Chinese spy balloon shot down over South Carolina airspace on February 4.
CTV News reported that an email from a Canadian General provided the “best description” of the unidentified object shot down by an F-22 fighter jet over the Yukon Territory.
Dated February 11, 2023, the email described the object as a cylindrical shape with a quarter of it being metallic and the rest white. Hanging below it was a 20-foot (6-meter) long wire with some kind of package suspended from it.
The image of the object had circulated within the Canadian Department of National Defense on February 14 of that year and was declassified as non-sensitive the following morning, allowing it to be made public.
However, concerns from a public affairs official about releasing the image “might cause more issues/confusion” led to it being kept from public view until now.