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 …