National Security Council spokesman John Kirby confirmed Friday that there was an object flying over airspace and President ordered it shot down.'So I can confirm that the Department of Defense was tracking a high-altitude object over Alaska airspace in the last 24 hours,' he said at Friday's briefing. 'The object was flying at 40,000 feet and posed a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight.' Kirby said that 'out of an abundance of caution and at the recommendation of the , President Biden ordered the military to down the object and they did, and it came inside our territorial waters.'
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