Balloon hunting season continues in North America with US fighter jets downing a “small” and “cylindrical” object over the Yukon in Canada yesterday. It was a day after something described as “the size of a small car” was shot down over neighbouring Alaska. The North American Aerospace Defense Command (a combined US-Canada effort to protect the nations’ airspace) detected them, and Canadian PM Justin Trudeau and US President Joe Biden said take ‘em down… There’s no word on what the objects are or who might have put them in the sky, but recovery efforts will be made to find out their “purpose or origin”. US officials say since recovering what’s left of the Chinese balloon shot down off the coast of South Carolina last weekend, they are certain it was designed for spying. China says it was a civilian airship used for meteorological research.