Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Sunday that 'recovery teams are on the ground' searching for a flying object that was shot down by an F-22 over the weekend.
Fox News correspondent Lucas Tomlinson has the latest developments after a U.S. F-22 shot down an object over Canada on 'Fox Report Weekend.'searching for an object that a U.S. F-22 fighter jet shot down on Saturday, the third object shot down in a week over North American airspace, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said.
"Recovery teams are on the ground, looking to find and analyze the object," Trudeau told reporters on Sunday morning. and confirmed together that we will continue to do everything necessary to protect the sovereignty of our shared North American airspace, but also to do everything necessary to keep our citizens safe."
North American Aerospace Defense Command first detected the"high-altitude airborne object" flying at about 40,000 feet over Alaska late on Friday evening and scrambled jets to monitor it and"characterize the nature of the object."A U.S. F-22 Raptor shot down the object using an AIM 9X missile over Canada on Saturday afternoon.
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