US shoots down 'high-altitude object' over Alaska, White House says

ABC News via Yahoo ^ | February 10th, 2023 | BEN GITTLESON

[fortes fortuna juvat]

I’m getting the feeling our current government is our enemy.
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Well that’s understandable because it’s the same government that was foisted upon our country following the ‘08 election by that Kenyan fraud and creator of the Deep State!

[Mark17]

His boss notified an Air Force guy who notified his friend at Ellsworth AFB east of Fairbanks

Do you mean Rapid City, South Dakota?

Air Force, retired.

[dragnet2]

[willk]

I flew on a KC-135 refueling mission in 1982 and we were at 41000 ft over Idaho. Refueled a group of A-10 Warthogs and I got to lay next to the boom operator and peer out the little window.

[dragnet2]

[LegendHasIt]

These are the commercial and private jets flying over North America at 40,000 feet or higher as of about 7 minutes ago.

[TigersEye]

President Joe Biden ordered the shootdown, spokesman John Kirby said, adding that the origin of the object has yet to be determined.

If I assumed this was true (I don't) way to swing from one extreme pole of irresponsibility to the other, Joetato!

This admin has become the most epic clown show in the history of human governance in just two years.

[Old Yeller]

If it was an alien UFO, now joe may have started an inter galactic war.

Or an intergalactic kegger.

[Old Yeller]

These are the commercial and private jets flying over North America at 40,000 feet or higher as of about 7 minutes ago.

Reminds me of Space Invaders. How do they keep from running into each other?

[LegendHasIt]

You think that's bad, here is what it looked like 5 minutes ago WITHOUT the 40,000 ft plus filter turned on:

[TigersEye]

I saw somethin' in the sky so I shot it down!

[Songcraft]

They don't know what they shot, but careful observers of the nighttime sky noticed this new hole in the moon.


     

[TigersEye]

President Biden personally shot a huge gasbag out of the sky last night.

[citizen]

An alien probe - aliens of the Independence Day type - and Joe just pissed ‘em off?

[dfwgator]

[eeriegeno]

Questions for Mr Kirby? When was this ‘object’ first detected by NORAD and where was it first detected?

[Big Brother Go to Hell]

Another reason to be skeptical: why aren’t the Chinese raising hell like they did the last time the USAF splashed one of their balloons?

[Inyo-Mono]

Funny!

[ought-six]

“no civilian aircraft fly at 40,000 feet.”

The ceiling for civilian aircraft is 42,000 feet. However, they usually do not go above 37,000 feet, though some have.

[Elsie]

Alaskan population centers

The largest state in the union has population centers??

10 Largest Cities in Alaska

Anchorage    (291,073)
Fairbanks     (32,809)
Juneau        (32,549)
Knik-Fairview (20,608)
Badger        (18,896)
College       (10,843)
Meadow Lakes   (9,686)
Wasilla        (9,420)
Tanaina        (9,003)
Kalifornsky    (8,679)