New Details Emerge About The Object Shot Down Over Alaska: Report
The weekend brought new information about the unidentified object, which the U.S. military downed on Friday some miles off Alaska’s coast.
The U.S. military has shot down an object with a. “cylindrical shape” According to U.S. officials it was roughly the size of a small vehicle. According to U.S. officials, the object didn’t appear to have any other characteristics. “observable surveillance equipment.”
“We have no further details about the object at this time, including any description of its capabilities, purpose or origin,” said Pentagon spokesperson Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder. “The object was about the size of a small car, so not similar in size or shape to the high-altitude surveillance balloon that was taken down off the coast of South Carolina.”
CNN reported that the accounts of F-35 fighter-jet pilots who were sent to intercept the object differed.
Officials from the United States stated that they observed the object on Thursday night, Friday morning and then shot it down. They were not able to report back. “limited” Information about what they saw.
Some pilots reported that the object was not working. “interfered with their sensors” According to the report, they had been flying in their planes.
Others stated that they didn’t see any propulsion system and could not explain why the object was still in the air at 40,000 feet.
CNN’s Jake Tapper asked House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) about the reports during an interview Sunday on the network’s “State of the Union” show.
“At this point, they are just reports, so we will have to wait until we get the final information,” Turner stated. “But because this thing was shot down, we have an ability to do the forensics, to do the exploitation of it when it’s found. And that will answer a lot of our questions. And, also, getting the data from the various planes, their sensors, what they actually were seeing or not seeing, in addition to what the pilots saw, will be really important.”
Turner stated that the greatest development from recent interactions with foreign objects entering U.S. Airspace is that it “is time for the United States to take this as a turning point to invest.”
“We need more sophisticated radar systems. We have them. We just don’t have them deployed to protect high over the United States,” He said. “An integrated missile defense system — we have helped invest in Israel having an integrated missile defense system. We don’t have one ourselves.”
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