U.S. Military Shoots Down ‘High-Altitude Object’ Off Coast Of Alaska
A “high-altitude object” has been shot down by the U.S. military off the coast of Alaska, according to the Defense Department. “Fighter aircraft assigned to U.S. Northern Command successfully took down a high altitude airborne object off the northern coast of Alaska at 1:45 pm Eastern Standard Time today within U.S. sovereign airspace over U.S. territorial water,” Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, a Pentagon spokesperson, said. “On February 9, North American Aerospace Defense Command detected an object on ground radar and further investigated and identified the object using fighter aircraft. The object was flying at an altitude of 40,000 feet and