A timeline of what and where fighter jets have shot down unidentified aircraft so far this month ⬇️
The balloon moved through Canada before dipping back into the US and out off the coast of South Carolina, where it was shot down with a missile fired by an F-22 fighter aircraft,A US defence official said the aircraft was a spy balloon and that China had intended to use it on sensitive military sites.
According to Pentagon press secretary Brigadier General Patrick Ryder, the object, which was hovering at an altitude of around 40,000ft, was"not similar in size or shape" to the balloon shot down off South Carolina.Unknown object shot down by US was 'size of small car'Two US F-22 warplanes were dispatched from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson near Anchorage, Alaska, and the object was shot down over sea ice near Deadhorse.
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