The Pentagon released a few details about the object shot down over the Yukon over the weekend.

“I ordered the take down of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace. NORAD 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 President Justin Trudeau said on Saturday.

I ordered the take down of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace. @NORADCommand 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.

— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) February 11, 2023

Canadian Defense Minister Anita Anand held a press briefing Saturday evening after Trudeau ordered the object to be decommissioned.

The Defense Minister said, “This was the first time that a NORAD operation has down an aerial object.”

“The object was flying at 40,000 feet and had unlawfully entered Canadian airspace and posed a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight,” she said.

According to a Pentagon memo sent to lawmakers, the object shot down over Canadian airspace was a ‘small, metallic balloon’ and it crossed near “US sensitive sites” before it was decommissioned.

CNN reported:

The unidentified flying object shot down in Canadian airspace on Saturday appeared to be a “small, metallic balloon with a tethered payload below it,” according to a Pentagon memo sent to lawmakers on Monday and obtained by CNN.

The memo offers the first official details of one of the three objects shot down in recent days that was previously described as a “cylindrical object.”

The object crossed near “US sensitive sites” before it was shot down, the memo said.

Defense officials also wrote in the memo to lawmakers that the object shot down over Lake Huron, in Michigan on Sunday, “subsequently slowly descended” into the water after impact.

The new details in the memo come as lawmakers on Capitol Hill are pressing to gain a better understanding of why the Biden administration shot down three unidentified objects in three days following the take down of the Chinese spy balloon that traversed the US the previous weekend.

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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Monday morning delivered remarks at the National Association of Counties Conference.

Buttigieg laughed about all his failures on the job.

“We’ve faced issues from container shipping to airline cancellations. Now we got balloons,” Buttigieg said laughing.

Buttigieg didn’t mention the Ohio train derailment during his remarks.

“About 50 cars, including 10 carrying hazardous materials, derailed in a fiery crash on Feb. 3 in East Palestine, Ohio. Vinyl chloride was later released into the air from five of those cars before crews ignited it to get rid of the highly flammable, toxic chemicals in a controlled environment, creating a dark plume of smoke.” WBNS reported.

WATCH:

Residents from neighborhood near the crash site have been evacuated because of the toxic fumes.

Meanwhile Pete Buttigieg is complaining about white men.

Buttigieg didn’t mention the Ohio train derailment.

But he found time to complain about the too many white men who work in construction.

WATCH:

Buttigieg made no mention of the Ohio train derailment while speaking at a conference this morning but did find the time to say that there are too many white people who work construction. pic.twitter.com/q4WNcq10h9

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) February 13, 2023

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