Fighter aircraft shoot down car-sized ‘object’ flying near Alaska

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Fighter aircraft shoot down car-sized ‘object’ flying near Alaska
By Meghann Myers
Feb 10, 03:52 PM
A U.S. fighter shot down a small, foreign “object” over Alaska just days after a surveillance balloon from China was downed off the East Coast. Officials provided few details of the craft, but are collecting wreckage.

Air Force fighters shot down an undetermined object of unknown origin off the coast of Alaska on Friday, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said during a briefing.

The object was the size of a small car and was traveling near Alaska’s border with Canada, but the administration hasn’t determined exactly what it was and whether it was state-owned, Kirby said. Pilots on scene were able to assess that it was unmanned, he said.

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