According to TASS, the order to destroy the object was given by the President of the United States, Joe Biden.

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) gave the go-ahead for two F-22 fighters to shoot him down ... He fell on Canadian territory, so we did it in cooperation with Canada,” she said.

Earlier, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that Canadian and American military aircraft shot down an unidentified object in the sky over the northwestern part of the country.

Canadian Minister of National Defense Anita Anand said the unidentified object shot down in Canadian airspace posed a potential threat to civil aviation aircraft.