New alert in the American sky. The United States, on the orders of President Joe Biden, shot down a “high-flying object” over Alaska at midday on Friday, a White House spokesman said, without give more details on its nature or origin.
This “object”, which was “the size of a small car”, and therefore smaller than last week’s Chinese balloon, was moving at 40,000 feet (12 km) and posed “a threat to air traffic safety”. said John Kirby, spokesman for the White House National Security Council.
In the aftermath, Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder said the object was shot down at 1:45 p.m. (7:45 p.m. Paris time).
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The United States has been tracking the object for the past 24 hours. Hunters from the United States Northern Command were able to approach and determine that there was no pilot aboard the craft. Which was shot down by an F22 via an AIM-9X Sidewinder air-to-air missile.
According to the Pentagon, the military should be able to recover debris from the frozen waters. At this stage, Washington has not determined whether the object belonged to a state or a private entity.
