Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder said an unidentified plane previously shot down in Canadian airspace was first recorded in Alaska airspace. This was reported by the press service of the US defense. departments.
“Joint Command Aerospace Defense North America [НОРАД] first detected an object in Alaskan skies,” the message says.
According to the press service, two F-22 fighter jets tracked the device for as long as it was in US airspace, carefully tracking it and trying to determine the origin and purpose of the object. The monitoring continued until the day the balloon crossed the border and ended in Canadian skies, and was subsequently shot down by the AIM 9X missile launched at the initiative of US President Joe Biden.
As Ryder explains, the Federal Bureau of Investigation will work with Canadian colleagues to investigate the debris of the falling balloon.
February 10 at the White House reportedThat the US military detected and shot down a balloon over Alaska. According to National Security Council Spokesman John Kirby, the plane shot down by the US military was at an altitude of 12,000 meters, parts of it crashed into ice-covered sea areas.