{"id":606668,"date":"2023-02-10T14:54:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T20:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/10\/pentagon-says-recovery-efforts-underway-to-find-high-altitude-object-shot-down-over-alaska\/"},"modified":"2023-02-10T14:54:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T20:54:00","slug":"pentagon-says-recovery-efforts-underway-to-find-high-altitude-object-shot-down-over-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/10\/pentagon-says-recovery-efforts-underway-to-find-high-altitude-object-shot-down-over-alaska\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon says recovery efforts underway to find high-altitude object shot down over Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Friday the United States shot down an unidentified “high-altitude object” over Alaska “out of an abundance of caution.” Photo by Ken Cedeno\/UPI | License Photo<\/a><\/p>\n

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Feb. 10 (UPI) —<\/span> Pentagon spokesman Gen. Pat Ryder said an F-22 U.S. fighter aircraft successfully took down a high-altitude object over Alaska after it was detected by ground radar Friday.<\/p>\n

Ryder, speaking during a Pentagon press briefing, said U.S. Northern Command is conducting debris recovery of the object and, “at this point,” the U.S. doesn’t know the origin of the object.\n<\/p>\n

Ryder said the object did not appear to have propulsion capabilities. He said it was operating at an altitude that could have endangered civilian aircraft at about 40,000 feet.<\/p>\n

“No indication at this time that it was maneuverable,” Ryder said. “It did enter U.S. airspace, and we took it down.”\n<\/p>\n

He said the object first entered U.S. airspace Feb. 9. Fighter jets “further identified the object,” he said. But after reporter questioning, he declined to describe the object in detail.<\/p>\n

Ryder said it was “not an aircraft per se,” adding that it was traveling in a northeasterly direction when it was shot down.<\/p>\n

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby<\/a> earlier Friday confirmed that a “high-altitude object” flying at about 40,000 feet over Alaska was shot down on President Joe Biden<\/a>‘s order.\n<\/p>\n

“The object was flying at an altitude of 40,000 feet and posed a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight. Out of an abundance of caution, and at the recommendation of the Pentagon, President [Joe] Biden ordered the military to down the object, and they did, and it came inside our territorial waters and those waters right now are frozen,” Kirby told reporters in a briefing at the White House.<\/p>\n

Kirby said the debris field was “much, much smaller” than the one left by the Chinese balloon that shot down Saturday off the South Carolina coast.<\/p>\n

Kirby said debris recovery efforts<\/span> will be made and that the object was roughly the size of a small car.\n<\/p>\n

Meanwhile late Friday, ABC News said<\/a> an unnamed U.S. official told it that the undercarriage of the balloon shot down in the Atlantic Saturday had been found largely intact and will be retrieved later.<\/p>\n

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