New alert in the American sky. The United States, on the orders of President Joe Biden, has just shot down a “high-flying object” over Alaska, a White House spokesman said on Friday, without giving more details. details on its nature or origin.
This “object”, which he said was “the size of a small car”, and therefore smaller than last week’s Chinese balloon, was moving at 40,000 feet (12 km) and posed “a threat to traffic safety air,” said John Kirby, spokesman for the White House National Security Council. The United States has been tracking the object for the past 24 hours and it was shot down by fighter jets about an hour ago. The latter determined that there was no pilot in the flying object.
According to Kirby, the military should be able to recover debris from the frozen waters. At this stage, Washington has not determined whether the object belongs to a state.