A US fighter jet has shot down an unidentified object over icy waters near Alaska on 10 February. This comes a week after the US shootdown of a suspected surveillance balloon from China
A US fighter jet shot down an unidentified object over icy waters near Alaska on 10 February. This comes a week after the USThe unidentified object was first detected and tracked by North American Aerospace Defense Command on 9 February. The object was considered a potential threat to civilian air traffic, so President Joe Biden gave the order for the US military to take it down.
A pair of Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor jets were involved in the intercept and one of the fighter jets shot down the unidentified object. The object was travelling at an altitude of about 12,000 metres and headed in a north-east direction over the Arctic Ocean when it was taken down. It had previously flown over land in Alaska.The US military has sent helicopters as part of the effort to retrieve the wreckage of the unidentified object, as it may have landed on ice rather than in open waters.
Patrick Ryder from the US Air Force described the situations involving the People’s Republic of China balloon and the unidentified object as being “apples and oranges” during a press briefing on 10 February. But Ryder also acknowledged that “we’re all very attuned to balloons at the moment”.
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