A Canadian public broadcasting station has obtained and released an image said to be the UFO, or unidentified object, shot down by the United States Air Force over Canada’s Yukon Territory on Feb. 11, 2023, during a period when at least one China spy balloon was floating over the United States.
CTVNews.ca. obtained the image by filing a Canadian freedom of information request.
“Heavily redacted documents show how the image was approved for public distribution within days of the headline-grabbing incident, but then held back after a public affairs official expressed concerns that releasing it ‘may create more questions/confusion,’” the station said.
Released through a Canadian freedom of information request, the grainy image appears to be a photocopy of an email printout.
At the time the unidentified object was spotted, Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau scrambled Canadian jets, and U.S. jets were also scrambled from Alaska, with the U.S. jet succeeding in hitting the object.
“I ordered the take down of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace,” Trudeau wrote on Twitter on Feb. 11, 2023. “I spoke with President Biden this afternoon. Canadian Forces will now recover and analyze the wreckage of the object. Thank you to NORAD for keeping the watch over North America.”
“At the time, officials described the Yukon object as a ‘suspected balloon’ that was ‘cylindrical’ in shape. A reported Pentagon memo said it appeared to be a ‘small, metallic balloon with a tethered payload below it,’ the station reported.
“Released as part of the freedom of information request package, an email from a Canadian brigadier-general offered what they described as the ‘best description that we have’ of the Yukon object,” the station said. “Visual – a cylindrical object,” the brigadier-general wrote in a Feb. 11, 2023, email. “Top quarter is metallic, remainder white. 20-foot wire hanging below with a package of some sort suspended from it.”
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