US shoots down another “Unidentified Object” over Alaska
A US government official said on Friday that the US military spotted and shot down an unidentified object flying over Alaska on Thursday evening on orders from President Biden.
Whether the unidentified object was a balloon was not confirmed, "but it was traveling at an altitude that made it a potential threat to civilian aircraft," according to The New York Times, which reported first on Friday afternoon.
The president gave the shoot-down order "out of an excess of caution," the unnamed American official said, in the wake of the dramatic shooting down of the Chinese "spy" balloon off the US east coast on Saturday.
The meager details provided to the Times revealed no information that could indicate the nature of the flying object, or whether it was a weather balloon or a spy balloon (China continues to insist last week's balloon was only for research station, and which exploded off course).
Commenting on the second object to violate US airspace in a week, another official quoted in the new report called the situation "fast-moving" and still developing, with more details expected to emerge soon. .
“It is not clear whether the object came from an opposing power or from a commercial or research operation that went missing,” the NYT official said.
#BREAKING White House: Object smaller than recent balloon downed near Alaska a few moments ago
It's suspected to be another Chinese Balloon
— War Monitor (@WarMonitors) February 10, 2023
Officials called the airspace violation relatively brief and could not easily identify what it was. It's also unclear whether a recovery team would be able to access the downed object, or whether the crash happened over water or on land.
Administration spokesman John Kirby said in a briefing that the Pentagon tracked the object before considering it a "reasonable threat" to civil aviation safety as it traveled at 40,000 feet.
Kirby: A "high altitude object" was shot down over Alaska pic.twitter.com/Ps2W9nCBHz
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) February 10, 2023
Meanwhile, the United States announced on Friday that it would prosecute Chinese firms it believes were linked to the manufacture of the alleged spy balloon that was shot down last weekend…
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