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The world. i'm kim brunhuber. this is "cnn newsroom." for the third time in a week a us fighter jet has shot down an unidentified object in airspace. it was taken down by u.s. f-22 fighter jet over the yukon in northwest canada. trudeau and biden authorized the strike by the countries' shared defense organization norad. it follows the downing of another unidentified object on friday in alaska and the shoot-down of a suspected chinese surveillance balloon last saturday off the coast of north carolina. it's not clear yet if the incidents are related. cnn's arlette saenz is at the white house w...

Pentagon is that norad had detected the object over alaska actually late friday evening, and then two f-22 fighter jets from alaska monitored the object over u.s. airspace, and then tracked it as it went into canada. now this was obviously the u.s. and canada working very closely together because obviously we have seen these kinds of objects floating around in the area over the last several days. just yesterday the president authorized the shoot-down of yet another object that was flying over alaskan airspace. that was shot down yesterday about ten miles off the coast there. this one we're tol...

Justin trudeau, the canadian tomorrow, that they would shoot it -- prime minister, that they would shoot it down. unclear what the reason would be for the faa to be shutting down this airspace over montana. but of course montana is where we saw that chinese spy balloon enter the united states just last week, jim. >> and natasha, you made the point a few moments ago, but just to expand upon that, obviously the faa would not close airspace over montana for defense department activities if we were talking about the same object that was shot down hours ago over the skies of canada. so it appears, ...

House Intelligence Chair Mike Turner (R-OH) issued a warning that the United States doesn't have "adequate radar" amid a series of incursions in U.S. airspace in recent weeks.

Looks like they finally got the 'object.'