Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Joe Biden ordered warplanes to shoot down “an unidentified object” in Canadian airspace over Yukon Saturday, which one government official said was believed to be a surveillance balloon of Chinese or Russian origin.
“I ordered the take down of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace,” the Prime Minister said. “Canadian and U.S. aircraft were scrambled and a U.S. F-22 successfully fired at the object.”
The U.S. military is also monitoring yet another unknown flying object, this time in Montana, and mulling whether to shoot it down, Republican Congressman Matt Rosendale said on Twitter.
The object was near Havre, Montana, just south of the border with Saskatchewan, wrote Mr. Rosendale, whose congressional district includes the area.
Defence Minister Anand says it’s not prudent to speculate on the origins of the object as work turns to recovering the wreckage
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Canada has a history of strange objects falling from the skies though & not just
alleged Chinese Spy balloons:
1. A shower of live lizards in Montreal, December 1857
2. A slight rain shower of huge black ants in Winnipeg, May 1895
3. Fish falling from a thunderstorm in Moose Jaw, Sask., July 1903
4. Frogs raining on 11th Avenue in Calgary, August 1921
5. Tiny winged brown beetles dropping in an intermittent shower in Red Creek, B.C., October 1934
6. Large red-angle worms fell during a snowshower in Carleton, N.B., October 1846
7. Fine white cobweb filaments floated from the sky in Montreal, October 1962
8. Wild ducks crashed to the ground in a storm in Banff, Alta., June 1932
9. Wild geese felled by lightning in Elgin, Man., April 1932
Yes, frogs are on the list
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