{"id":1843562,"date":"2023-02-11T12:50:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T17:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1843562"},"modified":"2023-02-11T12:50:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T17:50:33","slug":"senator-dan-sullivan-reveals-details-of-u-s-military-operation-to-shoot-down-object-over-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senator-dan-sullivan-reveals-details-of-u-s-military-operation-to-shoot-down-object-over-alaska\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Dan Sullivan Reveals Details Of U.S. Military Operation To Shoot Down Object Over Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenator-dan-sullivan-reveals-details-of-u-s-military-operation-to-shoot-down-object-over-alaska%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1843562&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Senator Dan Sullivan (R.AK) called the attempt to shoot down an unknown object over Alaskan air late in this week a success. \u201cvarsity-level\u201d Operation military.<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan\u2019s remarks come after the Pentagon said on Friday that it shot down an object roughly the size of a small car several miles off the coast of Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is varsity-level military operation,\u201d Sullivan said during an interview with Fox News\u2019 Neil Cavuto. \u201cA lot of people don\u2019t understand the challenge and professionalism and just incredible military effort that occurs when you do an op like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlaska is a huge state with giant airspace. This included F-22s, F-35s, F-16s, Alaska National Guard tankers,\u201d He continued. \u201cWe have rescue operation units that are on the ground right now doing a search for this operation, so really, really incredible work that the Alaska military has done and is continuing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan claimed that the spot where the object was taken down was \u201cone of the most important energy areas in America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Sullivan\u2019s comments come as an experienced F-15 fighter pilot told the media on Friday that some of the details released by U.S. officials on the incident\u00a0are \u201cunusual.\u201d\u00a0The object was reportedly unidentified. \u201ccylindrical shape\u201d It was smaller than the Chinese spy ball that was downed last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have no further details about the object at this time, including any description of its capabilities, purpose, or origin,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/new-information-released-about-object-u-s-military-shot-down-over-alaska\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a> Pentagon spokesperson Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder. \u201cThe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Politico was told by a U.S. official that the object didn&#8217;t appear to possess any. \u201cobservable surveillance equipment.\u201d According to reports, the object flew at around 40,000 feet making it a danger to civilian aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Randy Reep is an F-15 pilot with experience. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2023\/02\/11\/experienced-pilot-calls-size-of-unknown-object-flying-over-alaska-coast-unusual\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a> It was large and suspicious.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn modern times, the opportunity to see drones in the air is not uncommon,\u201d Reep. \u201cWhat you\u2019re seeing that\u2019s unusual is the size of these unmanned vehicles that are transient in our airspace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reep stated that U.S. officials wouldn&#8217;t shoot down the object\u00a0\u201cuntil they knew it was an unmanned vehicle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey will have to wait to have all the data so they can provide a good briefing on the exact situation that it was,\u201d Reep.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/u-s-military-shoots-down-unidentified-object-over-alaska\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The U.S. Military shoots down an unidentified object over Alaska<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) called the effort to shoot down an unidentified object over Alaskan air late this week a \u201cvarsity-level\u201d military operation. Sullivan\u2019s remarks come after the Pentagon said on Friday that it shot down an object roughly the size of a small car several miles off the coast of Alaska. \u201cThis is varsity-level &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":1843565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[8320,7020,4954,4505,12579,5958,5114,4012,5010,6700,7238],"class_list":["post-1843562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-alaska","tag-dan","tag-details","tag-military","tag-object","tag-operation","tag-reveals","tag-senator","tag-shoot","tag-sullivan","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1843562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1843565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1843562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1843562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1843562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}