WASHINGTON — The U.S. army on Friday afternoon shot down a “high-altitude object” flying over Alaska airspace that the Division of Protection was monitoring during the last 24 hours, Nationwide Safety Council official John Kirby confirmed on the White Home.
“The item was flying at an altitude of 40,000 ft and posed an inexpensive menace to the protection of civilian flight. Out of an abundance of warning, and on the suggestion of the Pentagon, President Biden ordered the army to down the item and so they did and it got here inside our territorial waters and people waters proper now are frozen,” Kirby informed reporters on the White Home briefing.
Fighter plane assigned to U.S. Northern Command took down the item “throughout the final hour,” Kirby stated round 2:30 p.m. ET.
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