{"id":136957,"date":"2023-02-11T09:52:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T14:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=136957"},"modified":"2023-02-11T09:52:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T14:52:26","slug":"car-sized-object-shot-down-from-alaskan-airspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=136957","title":{"rendered":"Car sized object shot down from Alaskan airspace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/7ar1fg-1676072559.3181.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-136952\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/7ar1fg-1676072559.3181-300x248.jpg\" alt=\"7ar1fg.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/7ar1fg-1676072559.3181-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/7ar1fg-1676072559.3181.jpg 606w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The object was floating\/flying at approximately 40,000 feet. This object presented a potential threat to commercial aviation, and was found near Alaska&#8217;s border with Canada. They deployed F-22 fighters to shoot it down, all occurring in US airspace.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From the Military Times:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The object was the size of a small car and was traveling near Alaska&#8217;s border with Canada, but the administration hasn&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;President Biden ordered the military to down the object, and they did and it caved in inside our territorial waters,&#8221; he said. &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The object was flying at an altitude of 40,000 feet and posed a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight,&#8221; Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said during a briefing Friday. &#8220;U.S. Northern Command is beginning recovery operations now.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Military Times has additional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2023\/02\/10\/fighter-aircraft-shoot-down-car-sized-object-near-alaska\/\">information<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The object was floating\/flying at approximately 40,000 feet. This object presented a potential threat to commercial &hellip; <a title=\"Car sized object shot down from Alaskan airspace\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=136957\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Car sized object shot down from Alaskan airspace<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}