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2023-02-11 -Land of the Free

US shoots down ‘high-altitude object' over Alaska

[Breitbart] A US fighter jet shot down an unidentified object drifting high over Alaska on Friday, the White House said, just six days after the downing of an alleged Chinese spy balloon sparked a fresh diplomatic rift with Beijing.

White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said it was unclear what the purpose or origin of the new object was, but said that it was taken down because, floating at 40,000 feet, it was a threat to civil aviation.

"The president ordered the military to down the object," Kirby said.

The object was much smaller than a huge Chinese balloon that crossed the United States last week and was shot down by a US fighter jet off the Atlantic coast on Saturday, Kirby said.

It was "roughly the size of a small car," he said.

"We do not know who owns it, whether state owned or corporate owned," he said. "We don’t understand the full purpose."

The incident took place amid a new alarm over what US officials say is an ongoing program by China to fly surveillance balloons to collect intelligence around the world.

US officials said such balloons have flown over 40 countries, including at least four times previously over United States territory.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-02-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top

#1 After US shoots down object over Alaska, Republicans tell Biden, I told you so

Posted by Skidmark 2023-02-11 03:16|| 2023-02-11 03:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Arctic Ocean recovery begins for cylindrical 'high-altitude' unidentified object 'with no observable surveillance equipment' shot down over Alaska by Sidewinder missile: Pentagon admits it doesn't know who the mystery object the size of a car belongs to

Posted by Skidmark 2023-02-11 04:06|| 2023-02-11 04:06|| Front Page Top

#3 I think I've seen this movie.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-02-11 07:18|| 2023-02-11 07:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Republicans react to third 'object' shot down over Canada: 'Unprecedented challenge'

Posted by Skidmark 2023-02-11 19:35|| 2023-02-11 19:35|| Front Page Top

#5 So multiple foreign vehicles aloft. What is, or was the retrieval plan? Are foreign vessels loitering in the Caribbean or Atlantic awaiting retrieval instructions ?

Posted by Besoeker 2023-02-11 20:21|| 2023-02-11 20:21|| Front Page Top

#6 Are these vehicles conducting photographic terrain mapping to assist the vector of launched strategic weapons without GPS (GPS disabled) ?

Posted by Besoeker 2023-02-11 20:33|| 2023-02-11 20:33|| Front Page Top

#7 Retaliating for the 'crimes' of the Gweilo Freedom of navigation exercises through the South China Sea and the Taiwan Straits? Not that the Middle Kingdom needs to justify any of its actions of course (/sarc).

Posted by magpie 2023-02-11 21:31|| 2023-02-11 21:31|| Front Page Top

#8 Thank goodness we have at least 1 fighter that can go above 60,000 feet.
In Vietnam, I was an intelligence briefer for the airwing. We were informed about SR-71s have a track in our operational area. Usually above 60,000 ft. We used to brief these to the next flights. Then we realized that the F-4s we had weren't quite up to fighting something that high!

Posted by Jise Elmeang4932 2023-02-11 22:32|| 2023-02-11 22:32|| Front Page Top

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