Canadian authorities have released images showing a suspected UFO that was shot down by a US fighter jet over Canada in 2023, adding more questions and uncertainty to the object that was hovering over the Yukon region of Canada.
The grainy, blurry image captured the “cylindrical” “suspected balloon” 40,000 feet above the Great White North in February 2023 days before it was taken out, according to CTVNews, which obtained the image through an information request with Canada’s Department of National Defense.
Canada has unveiled the first-ever image of the UFO downed during a joint US-Canada mission in February 2023. The grainy photo shows a circular, white object shot by a US Air Force F-22 fighter jet.pic.twitter.com/re0pQB6QX7
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A US F-22 shot the object, which was first tracked flying over Alaska eight days earlier, out of the sky on Feb. 11, 2023.
The airborne object previously described as a “small, metallic balloon with a tethered payload” was spotted amid three other cases in which North America dealt with unidentified objects in the sky.
Between Feb. 10 and Feb 12, three objects were spotted floating over North America before they were downed over Alaska, the Yukon and Lake Huron, respectively.
To add further complexity to the mystery, report indicated they were all smaller than the suspected Chinese spy balloon that traveled from Alaska across the United States before it was shot down over South Carolina on Feb. 4, 2023.
According to a report from the New York Post, the Canadian government was prepared to release the photo of the Yukon UFO, having declassified it and approved it for the public to see before holding off.
“Attached is an image approved to be released,” Canadian military leaders wrote in a Feb. 15, 2023, email, according to the outlet. “We are looking at getting a better one to send to you.”
The Department of National Defence was going forward with the release of the image before the acting assistant deputy minister for public affairs questioned whether the public should see it.
Searches for the debris from all three objects were conducted, but both the Canadian Mounties and the US called off the efforts days later.
Poor weather conditions and slim chances of finding the debris fields were cited as reasons for not continuing the searches.