BREAKING: U.S. takes down a second flying object, this time flying over Alaska, White House National Security Council says.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military on Friday afternoon shot down a"high-altitude object" flying over Alaskan airspace that the Department of Defense was tracking over the last 24 hours, National Security Council official John Kirby confirmed at the White House.
Fighter aircraft assigned to U.S. Northern Command took down the object"within the last hour," Kirby said around 2:30 p.m. ET. Kirby made clear the U.S. does not know who owns the object and he would not call it a balloon, like the one allegedly owned by the Chinese government that the U.S. military shot down last weekend.
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