Summary: US and Canada military shoot down new unidentified flying object<br><br><br><br><b>Another unidentified object has been shot down over North American airspace, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has confirmed.</b><br><b></b><br><br>He said the latest object "violated Canadian airspace" and was shot down over Yukon in north-west Canada.<br><br>Both Canadian and US aircraft were scrambled to track down the object which Mr Trudeau says was taken out by a US F-22 fighter jet.<br><br>It is the third object to be shot down over North America in the last week.<br><br>The American military destroyed a Chinese balloon last weekend, and on Friday an unspecified object the size of a small car was shot down off Alaska.<br><br>Mr Trudeau confirmed on Saturday he gave the order and had spoken with US President Joe Biden.<br><br><br>"Canadian forces will now recover and analyse the wreckage of the object," he wrote on Twitter.<br><br>The latest unspecified object was flying over central Yukon at about 40,000 ft (12,000m) and intercepted at about 15:41 local time on Saturday, defence minister Anita Anand told reporters.<br><br>She described it as "small" and "cylindrical", but that recovery efforts are still being carried out to discover more details.
