The canadian police announced that it had terminated the search for the remains of the flying object shot down almost a week ago in the arctic province of yukon.
According to a statement, despite having searched the “most likely area where the object would have fallen,” authorities were unable to locate the remains, due to difficult weather conditions.
Recent snowfall, the decreasing probability that the object will be found, and the current belief that the object is not related to a scenario that warrants “extraordinary search efforts” have led Canadian federal law enforcement to abandon the search.
On February 11, believing that the civil air transport safety compromised, US military authorities, in coordination with Canada, dispatched a fighter plane to destroy a unidentified flying object.
Last week, Canada acknowledged that the size and characteristics of the flying objects Discovered in recent days in North American airspace make them difficult to track with radar.
the major general Paul Prevostdirector of Canadian Armed Forces Joint Strategic Staffstated that its small dimensions pose difficulties for its detection by radars, both ground-based and airborne.
“We are studying how we can respond to these shortcomings in the future,” added Prévost.
After the demolition of the object that flew over Canada, the Minister of Defense of the North American country, Anita Ananddid not want to provide details about the artifact and limited itself to pointing out that it was “similar but smaller” to the chinese spy balloon shot down on February 4 off the coast of North Carolina.
This Friday, The United States also announced that it had ended the search for two other objects shot down by planes.one off the north coast of Alaska on February 10, and the other on the lake huronat the Canadian border, two days later.
The decision comes after carrying out a “systematic search”, using a “variety of capabilities” with air and surface sensors, which has not provided new results, reported the North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad) and the US Northern Command. (Usnorthcom) in a statement.
Both institutions detailed that the tracking activities for the recovery of debris from flying objects were executed jointly by the us army with different federal agencies and together with his Canadian partners.
According to the statement, the US Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, supported the decision
During a press conference on Thursday, the President of the United States, Joe Bidensaid there was nothing to suggest at this time that these two objects were “linked to the Chinese spy balloon program.””.
The Pentagon had also announced that it had successfully concluded the search operations for the remains of the Chinese globe shot down off the US Atlantic coast on 4 February.
The US authorities considered that the balloon was intended to collect sensitive information for the USalthough Beijing rejected it, claiming it was for meteorological purposes.
(With information from AFP and EFE)
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