Ajit Karn
Chinese spy balloon: President Joe Biden ordered the United States to shoot down an unidentified flying object over Alaska on Friday. The object was the size of a small car, much smaller than the Chinese spy balloon shot down by Air Force fighter jets over the Atlantic Ocean on Saturday.
Here are ten facts about the new flying object after chinese spy balloon.
- The car-sized object posed a significant threat to civil aviation and was flying at approximately 40,000 feet.
- The origin of the object is unknown at this time. According to White House spokesman John Kirby, the object was unmanned. The balloon was significantly smaller than the one from last week and did not appear to be manoeuvrable, according to US pilots.
- Using an AIM-9X short-range air-to-air missile, an F-22 fighter aircraft based at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska destroyed the object.
- The object flew over one of the most desolate areas in the country, which had a population of approximately 300 people.
- The object was detected by American radar at 9 p.m. on Thursday (Alaska time). It was moving between 20 and 10 miles per hour.
- Prior to the shoot-down, the Federal Aviation Administration restricted flights over a roughly 26-square-kilometer area of U.S. airspace off the coast of Alaska’s Bullen Point.
- On Friday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted that he had been briefed on the decision and supported it.
- The object fell onto frozen waters, and officials anticipated that they would be able to recover the debris faster than they did with last week’s enormous balloon.
- The object shattered into fragments when it was shot down.
Also read this:US Fighter Jet Downs Alaska “High-Altitude” Object
- The spy balloon escalated tensions between the United States and China, with the Pentagon claiming the balloon was part of China’s extensive surveillance programme. China warned of repercussions and called the US’s response an obvious overreaction. China stated that the balloon was for meteorological purposes and drifted away.
