During Tuesday’s press briefing, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that President Biden should not be embarrassed if he sent the military to shoot down weather balloons. “[Biden] was criticized for waiting too long on the first balloon and so the over-reaction, critics would say, is that he moved too quickly to shoot down the other ones before even knowing what they were. How do you respond to that?” a reporter asked. “I hear you,” Jean-Pierre responded. “And I know you just read me the whatever, the national weather data on numbers of balloons. I get that. What I’m

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