White House spokesman John Kirby said U.S. officials still don't know much about the object that was shot down over Alaska, including where it's from.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said a"high altitude" object"posed a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight," and was shot down.WASHINGTON — The U.S. shot down an unidentified object Friday over Alaska airspace at the order of President Joe Biden, less than one week after shooting down a Chinese spy balloon off the East Coast.
If it turns out to be another Chinese surveillance craft, that revelation could rupture already strained relations with America's top adversary. Beyond the threat to civilian airliners, a surveillance craft could spy on several sensitive military sites in Alaska, including sophisticated radar systems and missiles designed to detect and intercept ballistic missiles headed toward the United States.
"What we know is that the flight path it executed took it over sensitive military sites. What we also know is that it could maneuver, that it had propulsion capability and steerage capability and could slow down speed up," Kirby said. Last week's spy balloon crossed the continental U.S. and some of the military’s most sensitive sites, including nuclear missile siloes. Its breaching of U.S. airspace cratered relations with China, prompting Secretary of State Antony Blinken to cancel a planned trip to Beijing.
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