An American F‑22 was scrambled Saturday to shoot down an unidentified object over Canada’s Yukon territory.
The Yukon is a sparsely populated region of Canada that is north of British Columbia and abuts the eastern border of Alaska.
“I ordered the take down of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace. [The North American Aerospace Defense Command] shot down the object over the Yukon. Canadian and U.S. aircraft were scrambled, and a U.S. F‑22 successfully fired at the object,” Canadian Prime Minister Justice Trudeau t …