They shoot down a high-flying object over northern Canada

() — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ordered a high-altitude object shot down over Canadian airspace on Saturday, he said in a Tweet.

“I ordered the shooting down of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace. The @NORADCommand shot down the object over Yukon. Canadian and US aircraft were coded, and a US F-22 successfully fired on the object,” Trudeau said.

Trudeau also said he spoke with US President Joe Biden on Saturday and that Canadian forces will lead the recovery operation.

has reached out to the White House for comment.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command said Saturday it was monitoring “a high-altitude airborne object” over northern Canada, and military aircraft were operating in the area from Alaska and Canada, according to an agency news release.

It is unknown what the object is or if it is related to the suspected Chinese spy balloon shot down last week or another object shot down over Alaska on Friday.

globalnews reported about NORAD’s detection of the object on Saturday.

On Friday, the US military shot down a “high-altitude object” over Alaska after US officials determined it posed a “reasonable threat to civilian air traffic” as it was flying at 40,000 feet (12,192 meters). The object was shot down by fighter jets assigned to US Northern Command, with Biden calling the operation a “success.” Recovery teams are now trying to recover debris from the ice in US territorial waters.

While officials have so far given no indication that the downed object over Alaska is related to the Chinese spy balloon, details have been scant.

A week earlier, US military fighter jets shot down the alleged Chinese surveillance balloon over the Atlantic Ocean, ending a notable public drama that sparked a diplomatic spat between Washington and Beijing as the American public tracked the globe from Montana to the Carolinas.

The Joe Biden administration has been the subject of a series of questions this week about the timing of the president’s decision to fire the spy balloon.