US shoots down car-sized unidentified high-altitude aerial object flying above Alaska

Washington: A US fighter jet shot down an unknown object flying at the height of about 40,000 feet off the northern coast of Alaska on orders of President Joe Biden, officials said, less than a week after the military brought down a Chinese spy balloon that had flown across America.

According to Pentagon



Press Secretary Brigadier General Pat Ryder, the object, which was about the size of a small car, was first detected inside American airspace on Thursday.

The object, whose origin is not known so far, posed a "reasonable threat to civilian air traffic", he said.