Search efforts for Yukon, Alaska flying objects are being suspended – National | 24CA News
The seek for the flying object shot down over Yukon final week was suspended Friday by the RCMP.
“The RCMP has decided to discontinue search efforts in the Yukon for the aerial object shot down on February 11. The highest probability area has been searched and the debris was not located,” the RCMP mentioned in a assertion Friday night.
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“Given the snowfall that has occurred, the decreasing probability the object will be found and the current belief the object is not tied to a scenario that justifies extraordinary search efforts, the RCMP is terminating the search.”
Meanwhile, the United States has ended search operations for 2 objects it shot down earlier this month within the aftermath of downing a suspected Chinese spy balloon, in line with a press release launched by the Pentagon.
The U.S. Northern Command mentioned air and maritime security perimeters had been being lifted at two different websites the place flying objects had been shot down final weekend.
“U.S. Northern Command recommended that search operations conclude today near Deadhorse, Alaska, and on Lake Huron, as search activities have discovered no debris from airborne objects shot down on Feb. 10 and Feb. 12, 2023,” it mentioned.
The seek for the thing downed over Lake Huron had been suspended Thursday afternoon.
Speaking to reporters on Feb. 12, the day after the Yukon object was downed, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau mentioned it posed a “reasonable threat” to the protection of Canadians.
Trudeau mentioned the unidentified object “unlawfully” entered Canadian airspace and was shot down by an American F-22.
He ordered the thing to be shot down after it violated Canadian airspace. The announcement got here minutes after an unique Global News report, revealed at 3:36 p.m. ET, that North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, was monitoring an object that might be one other potential spy balloon.
The high-altitude airborne object was downed at roughly 3:41 p.m. ET.
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U.S. President Joe Biden mentioned Thursday that the Lake Huron object and two others shot down over Yukon and Alaska don’t seem to have come from China or every other nation and didn’t have surveillance capabilities.
The objects had been shot down in fast succession not lengthy after a Chinese surveillance balloon that had flown over Canada and the U.S. was shot down earlier this month.
— with information from Global News’ Sean Boynton, Heidi Lee & Reuters
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