Canadian defence minister on downed aerial object

Canadian Defence Minister Anita Anand on Saturday commented on an operation by NORAD, the combined U.S.-Canada organization that provides shared defense of airspace over the two nations, which downed an unidentified object flying at 13,000 meters above the Yukon.

Anand said that the object appeared to be a "small, cylindrical object." The object was downed by a U.S. fighter jet on the order of the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and comes a day after the U.S. took similar action over Alaska. NORAD detected the object flying at a high altitude Friday evening over Alaska, U.S. officials said. It crossed into Canadian airspace on Saturday.