Independence Day scenes as ‘cylindrical UFO’ shot down by US fighter jet
Canadian officials have released the first pictures of the “cylindrical” UFO shot down over Alaska in February 2023.
The grainy photo shows what appears to be a circular white object, which was shot down by a US Air Force F-22 stealth fighter while working with the Canadian military last year.
Canada’s Department of National Defence (DND) claimed the reason for the lengthy 19-month delay between footage and incident was that releasing the image “may create more questions/confusion”.
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Taylor Paxton, director of e-communications for Canadian DND, said in an email the confusion would be inevitable “given the current public environment and statements related to the object being benign”.
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Obtained by CTVNews.ca, the emails mention descriptions of the UFO from Canada’s armed forces.
“Top quarter is metallic, the remainder white. 20-foot wire hanging below with a package of some sort suspended,” Canadian Brigadier-General Eric Laforest wrote. “Best description that we have.”
Laforest went on to dub the object “cylindrical”.
The original sighting of the UFO came hot off the heels after the US military confirmed the shooting down of a “Chinese spy-balloon” reportedly as big as three buses over the same stretch of land.
US officials said at the time the balloon had almost certainly been flying over sensitive sites to collect information about them.
Iain Boyd, professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Colorado, spoke to CTVNews.ca about the Canadian government’s reluctance to release the image as an issue of national security.
“It comes down to these episodes illustrating a potential vulnerability in the US/Canada defensive system,” Boyd said.
“Certainly the failure to provide more information has fed conspiracy theories but the military will likely accept that outcome over disclosing information that may help an adversary identify defensive weaknesses.”
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