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The New York Times reports:
The Pentagon downed an unidentified object over Alaska on Thursday night at the order of President Biden, according to a U.S. official. The U.S. official said it was not confirmed if the object was a balloon, but it was traveling at an altitude that made it a potential threat to civilian aircraft.
Mr. Biden ordered the unidentified object downed “out of an abundance of caution,” the official said. The action comes less than a week after a U.S. fighter jet shot down a Chinese spy balloon that had traversed the United States, according to three American officials.
The latest breach, officials said, took place Thursday night, over Alaska. One official described it as a “fast-moving” situation that was still developing.
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SCOOP: Pentagon shoots down an unidentified object over Alaska. Possibly a second balloon. @helenecooper @ewong https://t.co/K4zTequOxs
— Julian E. Barnes (@julianbarnes) February 10, 2023
Kirby says that the military just downed in the last hour an object that was flying at 40k feet over Alaska airspace pic.twitter.com/A1tg8LCuhm
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 10, 2023
John Kirby just announced that an object, at the direct order of President Biden, shot down an object flying over Alaska.
It was “much smaller” than the Chinese spy balloon — the size of a “small car.” pic.twitter.com/qg23W1sLoZ
— MJ Lee (@mj_lee) February 10, 2023
#BREAKING: John Kirby confirms the Biden administration ordered fighter aircraft shot down "a high altitude object over Alaska air space…within the last hour" that we had been tracking for "the last 24 hours," adding "the object…posed a reasonable threat" pic.twitter.com/8Aa70xZ3zj
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) February 10, 2023
Another high-altitude object downed, this time over Alaska, within the past hour, per Adm. John Kirby.
“Yes, the President was absolutely involved” in the decision.
“He ordered it…he wanted it taken down.”
Kirby says object was smaller than Chinese spy balloon.
— Niall Stanage (@NiallStanage) February 10, 2023
Pentagon was tracking the high-altitude object over the past 24 hours & concluded it "posed a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight" per Kirby@POTUS ordered the object shot down "out of an abundance of caution" he said, over frozen US territorial waters
— Jeff Seldin (@jseldin) February 10, 2023