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Car sized object shot down from Alaskan airspace

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The object was floating/flying at approximately 40,000 feet. This object presented a potential threat to commercial aviation, and was found near Alaska’s border with Canada. They deployed F-22 fighters to shoot it down, all occurring in US airspace.

From the Military Times:

The object was the size of a small car and was traveling near Alaska’s border with Canada, but the administration hasn’t determined exactly what it was and whether it was state-owned, Kirby said. Pilots on scene were able to assess that it was unmanned, he said.

“President Biden ordered the military to down the object, and they did and it caved in inside our territorial waters,” he said. “And those waters right now are frozen, but inside territorial airspace and over territorial waters, fighter aircraft assigned to U.S. Northern Command took down the object within the last hour.”

North American Aerospace Defense Command detected the object through ground radar on Thursday, a Pentagon spokesman confirmed, calling in F-22 fighters to shoot it down with an AIM-9 Sidewinder missile.

“The object was flying at an altitude of 40,000 feet and posed a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight,” Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said during a briefing Friday. “U.S. Northern Command is beginning recovery operations now.”

The Military Times has additional information.

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38 thoughts on “Car sized object shot down from Alaskan airspace”

      1. Nah, Xi saw how bad his puppet was getting it over the last balloon, so he threw him a softball, and gave him permission to shoot this one down as soon as it was spotted..

    1. No! Gotta keep them headlines changing tho. There was a blurb late yesterday evening about Ol’ Jeff’s client list being “partially” released. It has since gone “poof”.

  4. Back in the 50’s John Meshna Surplus in Lynn, MA useed to sell
    weather balloons along with some other pretty cool stuff.
    Seems one could have a lot of fun nowadays with one of those.

  5. I think some Gal named Nena warned us about this shit in a song about 35 years ago! What’s next, a ban on balloons?

  7. Somewhere down on the ice is a corpse in a punctured homemade pressure suit, a lawn chair, and the shredded remnants of 75 helium balloons.

  8. The Chicoms threw their boy a bone to help get him out of the hot water for letting their other spy craft complete mission!

  9. Has anybody checked with Elon Musk? He launched his personal roadster into space back in February 2018 in a SpaceX test of the Falcon heavy rocket?

    Maybe it’s come Back! 😜 

  10. Latest news reports are that NORAD spotted another one over Canada and the Canadians have shot it down.

  14. I wonder how much each ballon costs. Those missiles can’t be cheap. Chi coms depleting our inventories and getting entertainment value.

    2. Look at this news article from The Daily Caller: US Jet Shoots Down Second High-Altitude Object Over Canada

  16. Amy Lee voted for Biden.
    Disappointed.
    I shall remove all her music from my phone.
    Not that I have much.
    Mostly Evanescence first album, really.

  17. We need some less expensive options other than a sidewinder to shoot down a bargain basement balloon from china.

  19. Another one bites the dust or Lake Huron. That makes four total. In a surprise move the Pentagon declared it isn’t aliens, even if they aren’t sure who it is.

    This can only mean one thing… it is aliens. You heard it here first.

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