According to breaking reports, the US has just shot down an object flying over Alaska at a high altitude.
The object hasn’t been identified yet by authorities. They are calling it an ‘object’ because they say that’s the best description they have for it at the moment.
Here’s more via CNBC:
The U.S. military shot down a “high altitude object” in American airspace off the coast of Alaska on Friday, the White House announced, less than a week after a similar object was shot down off the coast of South Carolina.
“We’re calling this an object because that’s the best description we have right now,” said White House spokesman John Kirby, adding “we don’t know what entity owns this object.”
The object was destroyed by a missile from a U.S. fighter plane “off the very very north eastern part of Alaska, near the Alaska-Canada border,” said Kirby, speaking at a White House press briefing.
Kirby said the U.S. military first became aware of the object on Thursday night, and shot it down Friday shortly after midday.
The craft was flying at approximately 45,000 ft, in altitude, lower than the balloon last week, and it was the size of a small car, he said.
Some reports are saying it’s the size of a small car.
At that high altitude I would guess that it’s some kind of Chinese drone or maybe even another balloon.
I guess Biden learned from his mistake of letting it fly over the entire US.