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US Military Shoots Down 'High-altitude Object' Flying Over Alaska According to National Security Council spokesman John Kirby during a White House press briefing Friday afternoon, a flying object the size of a "small car" was shot down over Alaska, a state on the extreme northwest of the North American continent. "I can confirm that the Department of Defense was tracking a high altitude object over Alaska airspace in the last 24 hours," Kirby said. "The object was flying at an altitude of 40,000 feet and posed a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight." Kirby said that based on the recommendation of the Pentagon, President Joe Biden "ordered the military to down the object. And they did. And it came in inside our territorial waters." He added that the "object" landed on frozen waters, and that "Fighter aircraft assigned to U.S. Northern Command took down the object within the last hour." A Pentagon spokesman Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, said the object entered U.S. airspace on Thursday; and was shot down by an F-22 using an A9X missile out of Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska. He said the military has located a significant amount of debris from the object. Friday's incident comes over a week after defense officials said that a Chinese spy balloon was spotted over Billings, Montana. It was shot down on Saturday by an F-22 using a single A9X missile. https://www.keneci.com/hotfeed-read-more#h.r6wi1xulks8g