According to a Fox News report, the U.S. Military has shot down a large, high-flying object in territorial waters over Alaska; National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby confirmed the incident during Friday’s White House Press Briefiing.
“I can confirm that the Department of Defense was tracking a high altitude object over Alaska airspace in the last 24 hours. The object was flying at an altitude of 40,000 feet and posed a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight. Out of an abundance of caution and the recommendation of the Pentagon, President Biden ordered the military to down the object. And they did. And it came in inside our territorial waters,” Kirby said.
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Biden spokesman John Kirby confirms "the Department of Defense was tracking a high-altitude object over Alaskan airspace in the last 24 hours." pic.twitter.com/RADF33myvT
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Kirby added that the “object” landed on frozen waters, and added that “Fighter aircraft assigned to U.S. Northern Command took down the object within the last hour.”
He added that the “object” was “much, much smaller than the spy balloon that we took down last Saturday.”
“The way it was described to me was roughly the size of a small car as opposed to a payload that was like two or three busses sized,” Kirby said.
“We do not know who owns it, whether it’s state owned or corporate owned or privately owned,” he said.
The Pentagon said an F-22 using an A9X missile shot down the “object.”
More over at Fox News:
#BREAKING: The United States military on Friday shot down an “object” flying at 40,000 feet in U.S. territorial waters over Alaska at the direction of President Joe Biden, the White House said. https://t.co/1ogFEnikBZ
— FOX 4 NEWS (@FOX4) February 10, 2023
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