Another shoot-down

[George K]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/us-shoots-flying-object-alaska-airspace-white-house-says-rcna70166

The U.S. military on Friday afternoon shot down a "high-altitude object" flying over Alaskan airspace and Arctic waters, National Security Council official John Kirby confirmed at the White House.

The Pentagon had been tracking the object over the last 24 hours, he said.

"The object was flying at an altitude of 40,000 feet and posed a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight," Kirby told reporters during the White House briefing. "Out of an abundance of caution, and at the recommendation of the Pentagon, President Biden ordered the military to down the object and they did and it came inside our territorial waters and those waters right now are frozen."

Fighter aircraft assigned to U.S. Northern Command took down the object "within the last hour," Kirby said around 2:30 p.m. ET.

Interesting how, since one guy in Montana spotted the Chinese balloon, all these stories are bubbling to the surface.

[89th]

You know fighter pilots are like YASSSSSSS finally we get to shoot something for realzzzzzzz

[George S]

You can thank my people's space laser for that.
I designed that space laser too. So proud!

[Mik]

40k altitude is much worse than 60k.

[George K]

@George-S said in Another shoot-down:

So proud!

And yet, humble at the same time!

[George K]

[Renauda]

@George-K

cylindrical and silverish gray” and seemed to be floating -

An alien tic-tac. Better let Giorgio Tsoukolos know.

[Horace]

@George-K said in Another shoot-down:

Seems xenophobic.

[Copper]

The Chinese are training Mr. Biden to shoot.

They will have him use this new skill when the time is right.

[LuFins Dad]

Shit. Better start figuring out next year’s taxes…