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US shoots down 'high-altitude object' over Alaska, White House says
ABC News via Yahoo ^ | February 10th, 2023 | BEN GITTLESON

Posted on 02/10/2023 3:01:31 PM PST by Mariner

The White House said Friday that a 'high-altitude object' has been shot down over Alaska.

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

Responding to reporters' shouted questions about the shootdown Friday afternoon outside the White House, Biden called the operation a "success."

It comes just days after the U.S. shot down a Chinese surveillance balloon last Saturday, following a political firestorm.

Kirby said the object was about the size of a small car and was at flying about 40,000 feet.

He said because it posed a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight, that out of an abundance of caution and at the recommendation of the Pentagon, Biden ordered the military to down the object.

ABC News Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz first reported that when fighters were scrambled, the pilots did visuals, got images and said there was no sign the object had propulsion.

It was described as "cylindrical and silver-ish gray" and seemed to be floating, a U.S. official said.

Asked if was "balloon-like," the official said, "All I say is that it wasn't 'flying' with any sort of propulsion, so if that is 'balloon-like' well -- we just don't have enough at this point."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alaska; balloonboybiden; cylinder; cylindrical; interception; jbsbj; shootdown; ufo
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To: lizma2

I’m getting the feeling our current government is our enemy.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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!


61 posted on 02/10/2023 4:45:17 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Democrat politicians and voters are dangerous psychopaths. They confirm it everyday.)
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To: Cen-Tejas
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.

62 posted on 02/10/2023 4:55:00 PM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: Mariner

63 posted on 02/10/2023 4:58:35 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: canuck_conservative

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.


64 posted on 02/10/2023 5:04:15 PM PST by willk (Local news media. Just as dangerous as national media.i later)
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To: Mariner

65 posted on 02/10/2023 5:06:18 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: canuck_conservative

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

66 posted on 02/10/2023 5:09:27 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: Mariner
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.

67 posted on 02/10/2023 5:11:16 PM PST by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: faucetman
If it was an alien UFO, now joe may have started an inter galactic war.

Or an intergalactic kegger.


68 posted on 02/10/2023 5:15:40 PM PST by Old Yeller
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To: LegendHasIt
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?
69 posted on 02/10/2023 5:17:16 PM PST by Old Yeller
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To: Old Yeller
You think that's bad, here is what it looked like 5 minutes ago WITHOUT the 40,000 ft plus filter turned on:


70 posted on 02/10/2023 5:26:22 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: All

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

71 posted on 02/10/2023 5:27:21 PM PST by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: Mariner

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


     

72 posted on 02/10/2023 5:28:15 PM PST by Songcraft
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To: All
President Biden personally shot a huge gasbag out of the sky last night.


73 posted on 02/10/2023 5:32:08 PM PST by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: Mariner

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


74 posted on 02/10/2023 5:37:20 PM PST by citizen (Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people - John Adams 1798)
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To: citizen

75 posted on 02/10/2023 5:41:25 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Mariner

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


76 posted on 02/10/2023 6:07:29 PM PST by eeriegeno (Checks and balances??? What checks and balances?)
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To: Mariner

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?


77 posted on 02/10/2023 6:18:13 PM PST by Big Brother Go to Hell
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To: 4Liberty

Funny!


78 posted on 02/10/2023 6:20:28 PM PST by Inyo-Mono
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To: canuck_conservative

“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.


79 posted on 02/10/2023 6:21:55 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: PTBAA
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)

80 posted on 02/10/2023 6:22:18 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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