'We're calling this an 'object' because that's the best description we have right now,' a White House spokesperson said.
ordered the military to down an unidentified flying object ‘the size of a small car’ in a remote northern coast of Alaska on Friday, less than one week after shooting down a Chinese surveillance balloon.
“At the direction of the president of the United States, fighter aircraft assigned to U.S. Northern Command successfully took down a high-altitude airborne object off the northern coast of Alaska at 1:45 Eastern Standard Time today within U.S. sovereign airspace over U.S. territorial water,” Pentagon press secretary Brig Gen.Most aspects of this object, however, are still unknown, but what we do know seems markedly different from last week’s spy balloon.
based at Alaska’s Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson shot down the object on Friday using an AIM-9X short-range air-to-air missile, the same type used to take down the balloon nearly a week ago.
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