- Officials said 'high-altitude airborne object' is monitored over Northern Canada
- Unidentified object shot down over Alaska entered US airspace before detection
- It was shot down on Friday within an hour of President Joe Biden's order
NORAD has confirmed that the United States military is monitoring yet another potential spy balloon currently flying over Canada.
This comes shortly after an unidentified object was shot down over Alaska after it was able to penetrate US airspace before detection, officials have revealed.
'We have positively identified a high-altitude airborne object over Northern Canada,' NORAD officials said in a statement.
'While we cannot discuss specifics related to these activities at this time, please note that NORAD conducts sustained, dispersed operations in the defense of North America through one or all three NORAD regions,' Major Olivier Gallant, a NORAD spokesperson, said in a statement.
NORAD has confirmed that the United States military is monitoring yet another potential spy balloon currently flying over Canada shortly after an unidentified object was shot down over Alaska after it was able to penetrate US airspace before detection.
Earlier Saturday, Canada's Global News has reported that security sources were monitoring 'one or two more objects' that they thought could be spy balloons.
A source told Fox News the earlier unidentified object was discovered 'over Alaska not far from the northern coast'. The object was first spotted north of Anchorage, Fox News' Lucas Tomlinson tweeted.
It comes after sources told CNN the military had developed a method to track spy balloons last year - despite the object, which is said to be the size of a small car, not being picked up on radar until after it was over Alaska.
National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby revealed on Friday it had been shot down within an hour of an order issued by President Joe Biden. The Pentagon has since sent military helicopters to recover it from frozen waters.
Officials are yet to confirm what the object is or which country it belongs to. It is unclear if it is another Chinese spy balloon similar to the one shot down off the coast of South Carolina earlier this month.
Officials said it was traveling at an altitude that was potentially harmful for civilian aircrafts, The New York Times reported.
The object was taken down by an F-22 using an A9X missile out of Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson in Anchorage.
Several officials also said the object shattered into pieces after being struck by the missile, adding to the mystery of what the object truly is.
A US official revealed the pilots who intercepted the object said it had a cylindrical shape and no observable surveillance equipment attached.
The Pentagon has now launched a recovery operation to collect the debris from the surface of the frozen waters off Alaska.