while the search for one continues unidentified object shot down over Yukon Canada’s defense minister says it will be “difficult” to find it by a US fighter jet this past weekend.
Anita Anand told reporters in Brussels, Belgium, Tuesday morning that the terrain and weather in the northern region were posing significant challenges to search and rescue efforts there, while similar operations have been hit in recent days near Alaska and Lake Huron. Running for dropped items.
“The terrain is extremely rugged. It is extremely remote. The temperature is around -25 Celsius, and there is heavy snow,” Anand said of the conditions in the Yukon.
He is in Belgium until Wednesday’s meeting with NATO defense ministers.
“The recovery effort is difficult, but like I said, we have many aircraft in the air and people on the ground. We have the RCMP, we have FBI assistance, and we obviously have members of the Canadian Armed Forces who Helping in this effort.
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NORAD The continental air defense network — has been on “heightened alert” after a suspected Chinese spy balloon was shot down off the coast of the Carolinas on February 4, NORAD and the head of the US Northern Command, Gen. Glenn VanHerk, told reporters Sunday.
The balloon, which China claimed was a meteorological aircraft, was shot down two days after it was first acknowledged by US officials and a week after it first entered US and Canadian airspace. was dropped.
In the nine days following that takedown, US jets shot down three “unidentified objects” over Alaska, the Yukon and Lake Huron, near Ontario and Michigan. US officials have said that the object that fell over Lake Huron probably fell in Canadian waters.
In a technical briefing with reporters on Monday, Canadian Forces Maj. Gen. Paul Prevost said, “These last three objects don’t look like the first objects we deal with.”
Others were smaller in size but followed a “same pattern”, he said. Sean McGillis, executive director of federal policing strategic management with the RCMP, said while the search continues, the conditions are extremely challenging.
“We’re working very hard to locate them, but there’s no guarantee,” he said, adding, “there’s a lot of hope.”
This Global News graphic shows the areas in the United States and Canada where a suspected Chinese spy balloon and three unidentified objects were shot down by US jets on February 13.
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In the Yukon, the search area is between Dawson City and Mayo, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday, which are about 230 kilometers apart by vehicle according to Google Maps.
He said the object was shot down in a “fairly sparsely populated and sparsely populated area” and that Canadian Armed Forces and RCMP personnel have been deployed to locate it. He said personnel expert in handling dangerous cargo are involved in the search efforts.
Anand said in a series of tweets on Monday that the Royal Canadian Air Force has deployed a CC-130H Hercules search and rescue aircraft, two CC-138 Twin Otter utility transport aircraft, which can also be used in search operations, as well as a CH-148 Cyclone helicopter and a CH-149 Cormorant, an all-weather search and rescue helicopter.
McGillis described the area as “very rugged and mountainous terrain”. He added that it was “not going to be an easy recovery, and it could potentially take us some time to locate the device.”
Environment Canada’s forecast for Dawson City, Yukon, showed a high temperature of -17°C for Tuesday with frostbite risk. Temperatures were forecast to remain well below freezing for the rest of the week.
US Army Gen. Mark A. Miley told reporters during a separate news conference on Tuesday that the spills in Alaska and Lake Huron were also in “very difficult terrain.” He also stated that two attempts were made to bring the object down over Lake Huron after the fighter’s first shot missed.
The Alaskan object landed in the Arctic Circle, where temperatures are extremely cold, while the object in Lake Huron is at least a few hundred feet deep, Milley said.
“We will get them eventually, but it will take some time to recover them,” he said.
On Monday, Trudeau said it appeared that “some sort of pattern” was emerging, noting that three additional aerial objects had been shot down in US and Canadian airspace since a suspected Chinese attack about two weeks ago. Initial reports of the spy balloon had surfaced.
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When asked on Tuesday, Anand hesitated to make a similar statement.
“It is too early. We have not recovered the wreckage yet. I will wait till the facts from the analysis of the wreckage are presented to me.”
“I would also like to mention that there is intense cooperation with respect to the wreckage analysis. We have the FBI involved. We have the RCMP involved. We have the Canadian Armed Forces involved and there are multiple aircraft, so it’s a collaborative effort and as As we move through the process and retrieve and analyze the wreckage, we’ll have more to say.
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