UFO

2023 - 2 - 12

US fighter jet shoots down UFO over Canada, Trudeau says (RNZ)

A US F-22 fighter jet has shot down an unidentified object over Canada, the second such shootdown in as many days.

US pilots and intelligence officials have been trying to learn about the object since it was first spotted on Thursday. China's government has said it was a civilian research vessel. The Pentagon on Friday offered only a few details, including that the object was the size of a small car, it was flying at about 40,000 feet and could not maneuver and appeared to be unmanned.

US fighter shot down UFO over northern Canada (silive.com)

F-22 fighter jets have now taken out three objects in the airspace above the U.S. and Canada over seven days.

Wayne Eyre, chief of the defense staff, said the instructions given to the planes was “who ever had the first, best shot to take out the balloon had the go-ahead.” The balloon was part of a large surveillance program that China has been conducting for “several years,” the Pentagon has said. for “an obvious overreaction and a serious violation of international practice.” “It would not be prudent for me to speculate on the origins of the object at this time.” has said Chinese balloons have flown over dozens of countries across five continents in recent years, and it learned more about the balloon program after closely monitoring the one shot down near South Carolina. In a statement, the Northern Command said there were no new details on what the object was. “The importance of this moment should not be underestimated,” she said. Anand didn’t use the word “balloon” to describe the object. The aircraft did not identify any object to correlate to the radar hits, NORAD said. Canadian Defense Minister Anita Anand told a news conference in Ottawa that the object, flying at around 40,000 feet, had been shot down at 3:41 p.m. jets operating as part of NORAD were scrambled and it was a U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command, the combined U.S.-Canada organization that provides shared defense of airspace over the two nations, detected the object flying at a high altitude Friday evening over Alaska, U.S.

Playbook: UFO fever grips Washington (Politico)

With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross. President Joe Biden listens as Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a meeting in the.

[enjoying her Eagles’ Super Bowl run](https://apnews.com/article/biden-kansas-city-chiefs-philadelphia-eagles-mlb-politics-256e15924e43fde60e476d011afa078d). [“‘A serious committee’: Lawmakers have high bipartisan hopes for China panel as tensions rise,”](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/-serious-committee-lawmakers-high-bipartisan-hopes-china-panel-tension-rcna70109) by NBC’s Scott Wong: “The China committee’s two leaders — Chair MIKE GALLAGHER, R-Wis., and ranking member RAJA KRISHNAMOORTHI, D-Ill. Kushner’s firm structured those funds in such a way that it did not have to disclose the source, according to previously unreported details of Securities and Exchange Commission forms reviewed by The Washington Post.” It Could Be His Final Act in Washington,”](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/12/us/politics/bernie-sanders-help-committee.html) by NYT’s Sheryl Gay Stolberg: Independent Vermont Sen. [“Trump campaign paid researchers to prove 2020 fraud but kept findings secret,”](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/11/trump-campaign-report-electoral-fraud/) by WaPo’s Josh Dawsey: “The campaign paid researchers from Berkeley Research Group, the people said, to study 2020 election results in six states, looking for fraud and irregularities to highlight in public and in the courts. MIKE ROUNDS (R-S.D.) on Medicare and Social Security proposals, on “State of the Union”: “I think Sen. JIM HIMES (D-Conn.) on the origins of the objects that have been shot down this week, on NBC’s “Meet the Press”: “In an absence of information, people will fill that gap with anxiety and other stuff. SPENCER COX on the culture wars, on “Meet the Press”: “There’s some data that came out this past week to show that especially conservatives, we don't know how to disagree anymore. CHRIS SUNUNU on if he will be a “culture warrior” like other Republican governors, on CBS’ “Face the Nation”: “No, we have to talk about that, but it isn’t the government’s role to solve it. Biden and Trudeau “discussed the importance of recovering the object in order to determine more details on its purpose or origin,” according to the White House. That change does not yet fully answer what is going on, the official cautioned, and whether stepping back to look at more data is yielding more hits — or if these latest incursions are part of a more deliberate action by an unknown country or adversary.” The “high-altitude airborne object” soon merited a phone call between Biden and Canadian Prime Minister JUSTIN TRUDEAU, and the two leaders agreed to take it out.

Your Monday Briefing: U.S. Destroys U.F.O.s (The New York Times)

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada said that the flying object “represented a reasonable threat to civilian aircraft.”Credit...Blair Gable/Reuters.

And here’s Friday’s edition of “ [The Daily](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/10/podcasts/the-daily/sports-betting-lobbying-laws-states.html?action=click&module=audio-series-bar®ion=header&pgtype=Article),” on how sports betting became mainstream in the U.S. [You can find all our puzzles here](https://www.nytimes.com/crosswords). [Jalen Hurts versus Patrick Mahomes](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/10/sports/football/super-bowl-quarterback-mahomes-hurts.html)will be a match of contrasting styles. Yevgeny Prigozhin, Wagner’s billionaire leader, [has become a prominent public figure](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/11/world/europe/russia-wagner-group-prigozhin-putin.html), raising questions about his political ambitions. athlete in Super Bowl LVII (5 letters). He later said his comments had been taken out of context, but they’ve pushed the country’s hottest button. When Sweden expanded its parental leave in the 1970s, for instance, its fertility rate rose, and it remains one of the highest among advanced economies. Most initiatives that encourage families to have more children are expensive, and the results are often limited. Russian spies have repeatedly tried to infiltrate the Legion, a spokesman for Ukraine’s military intelligence service said. Context: Turkey upgraded its building codes after an earthquake in 1999 killed more than 17,000 people, but experts said the codes were often ignored. China maintains that the object was a civilian weather balloon. An American F-22 jet downed that object over the Yukon Territory on Saturday.

Canada hunting for debris of shot down 'unidentified object' amid ... (Newshub)

Canadian investigators are hunting for the wreckage of the mysterious flying object shot down by a U.S. fighter jet over Yukon territory, Prime Minister ...

Why the new UFO discoveries in the US and Canada are more ... (Travel Weekly)

But, what makes these new unidentified objects more concerning for the general public is the altitude they appear to be travelling at. The Chinese spy balloon ...

In an air traffic recording, the pilot says “I hate to say it, but it looked like a cruise missile.” Flying at around 30,000 – 40,000 feet, the same height as a commercial airliner. That followed the downing of two objects at the weekend.

Canada hunting for debris of UFO shot down over Yukon (The Straits Times)

On Sunday, local news reports say that China was getting ready to take down an unidentified object flying over waters near Qingdao.

In a sign of the heightened jitters over the incursions, the US on Saturday ordered a temporary closure of airspace over Montana after it detected a “radar anomaly”. The US military shot it down on Feb 4 off the coast of South Carolina. Mr Biden ordered the takedown of a smaller unidentified object spotted about 40,000 feet (12km) over Alaska on Friday. “Recovery teams are on the ground, looking to find and analyse the object,” Trudeau told reporters. The high-altitude object was identified over Alaska late Friday evening and monitored by US military aircraft as it crossed into Canada, according to the Pentagon. The person said fishermen in the area have been told to be careful about safety, the report added.

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