A week after Americans were transfixed by a Chinese balloon traversing the nation on an alleged spy mission until it was shot from the sky over the Atlantic Ocean, the U.S. military just downed a high-flying object in U.S. airspace off the coast of Alaska
A week after Americans were transfixed by a Chinese balloon traversing the nation on an alleged spy mission until it was shot from the sky over the Atlantic Ocean, the U.S. military on Friday downed a high-flying object in U.S. airspace off the coast of Alaska.
Friday’s incident and the flurry of activity surrounding it come as U.S. citizens and officials are on edge over revelations of an apparently vast and pervasive Chinese espionage program involving sophisticated balloons, which U.S. officials say have flown over 40 nations in five continents in the last several years.
Biden was briefed about the aerial device on Thursday night and U.S. fighter jets flew past it to assess whether it was manned, Kirby said. It was not, the pilots determined. Kirby said that the origin of the object was not known and that the U.S. would study it after retrieving its debris. “It wasn’t an aircraft per se,” said Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, noting the object did not take evasive action or change course and was incapable of maneuvering.
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