Another ballon downed in Alaska.

[Atticus]

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Source: MSNBC

Per Kirby just now on MSNBC. Shot down from 40k feet and landed on our offshore ice after it was deemed a hazard to commercial flight.

Read more: Link to source

[WheelWalker]

1. Calling this "an object", size of a small car.

[underpants]

2. Enhanced intelligence pays off

Plus no one is hiding anything from Joe because don’t think he’s imbecilic raving buffoon.

[uppityperson]

3. Link?

[BumRushDaShow]

4. CNBC has a link

U.S. shoots down second ‘high altitude object’ on Biden’s orders
Published Fri, Feb 10 20232:37 PM EST


This is breaking news. Please check back for updates.


https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/10/us-shoots-down-second-high-altitude-object-on-bidens-orders.html

[Yonnie3]

8. NY Times as well

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/10/us/politics/pentagon-downed-object-over-alaska.html

[BumRushDaShow]

14. Now NBC, ABC, CNN - and just now AP's breaking popped up!

[getagrip_already]

5. Cue hissy-fit in 3-2-1.......

Surely he acted too hastily and now we can't learn anything from it! /s

[tinrobot]

6. But... but... think of the polar bears!

[Deuxcents]

9. Watching the news conference...🤯.. asking the same questions over n over

Who picks these “journalists “?

[Evolve Dammit]

10. JHC. So now it's balloon man instead of little rocket man??

[Kennah]

11. ABC link

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-shoots-balloon-alaska-white-house/story?id=97040022

[durablend]

12. "Clearly Hunter Biden's laptop"

Trying to slip it back into the country.

[MiHale]

13. Sarah Palin says...

I can see the Commie China Spy Balloon from my porch.

[Raine]

15. Good! 👍 nt

[DFW]

16. Is THAT what it was?

The Boston Globe only said it was unidentified and flying very high, and I thought, holy shit, they just downed Marge Greene's ego!!

[highplainsdem]

17. LOL!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

18. Story from Insider

US fighter aircraft shot down an 'object' threatening flights over Alaska just days after downing a Chinese spy balloon

The US military recently shot down an unidentified object in US airspace over Alaska, a senior official said Friday.

"I can confirm that the Department of Defense was tracking a high-altitude object over Alaska airspace in the last 24 hours. The object was flying at an altitude of 40,000 feet and posed a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight," White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby told reporters at a briefing.

Kirby said that out of an abundance of caution and at the recommendation of the Pentagon, President Joe Biden ordered the US military to down the object. On that order, a fighter jet assigned to US Northern Command shot down the object off the northeastern part of Alaska, near the Canadian border.

"We're calling this an object, because that's the best description we have right now," Kirby said. "We do not know who owns it, whether it's state owned or corporate owned or privately owned. We just don't know."

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-fighter-shot-down-object-over-alaska-that-threatened-flights-2023-2

Waiting to see what the verbal diarrhea caucus of the GOP has to say.

[Yonnie3]

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