Following the shootdown of three unidentified objects in three days over Alaska, the Yukon and Lake Huron in February and the downing of a Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina a week earlier, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau received a secret memo laying out how the Canadian government was responding to the Feb. 11 Yukon incident. In addition, it stated the “full exploitation” of whatever the U.S. Air Force shot down over the waters of Alaska on Feb. 10 had “not yet been completed.” Reports a few days later stated that the U.S. had called off the search for wreckage of the downed object. Exactly what kind of intelligence exploitation this is referring to is unclear.
The “Memorandum for the Prime Minister,” transmitted Feb. 14, was obtained by the Canadian CTVNews outlet from a source who filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that the news organization said it verified with its own information request. According to the memo, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) numbered unknown objects sequentially “to track every detected object that is not immediately identified: upon cross-examination most objects are found to be innocuous and do not meet the higher threshold for higher reporting or engagement.” However, the object the memo identified as “UAP #23” – meaning it was the 23rd unidentified radar track by NORAD over North America at that point in the year that was classified as UAP – did rise to a higher level of concern, given that it was shot down.
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The memo stated that “the function, method of propulsion, or affiliation to any nation-state” of the unidentified object shot down by a U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor on Feb. 11 “remains unverified. It is unknown whether it poses an armed threat or has intelligence collection capabilities.”
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