Air force took video of object shot down over Yukon in 2023

Canada’s Department of National Defence has released more details and an updated image of the unidentified object shot down over the Yukon in February 2023.

According to a defence spokesperson, the image was taken from a Royal Canadian Air Force CP-140 Aurora long-range patrol aircraft before the object was downed by a U.S. F-22 fighter jet.

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“Regarding the resolution of the image, it was captured as a cropped screen shot of a video feed, using a monochrome system, thus the original image is of low quality and no colour version exists,” the spokesperson said.

Their response comes nearly two-and-a-half months after CTVNews.ca first published the image, which was acquired through an access to information request. Through a new request, CTVNews.ca also obtained the unclassified image in its “original format” – a …