WASHINGTON: A US fighter jet on Friday shot down over Alaska a high-altitude object that was the size of a small car, on the order of President Joe Biden, the White House said.

White House spokesperson John Kirby told reporters many details were unknown about the object but the United States expected to recover the object after it landed in US territorial waters.

It was unclear where the object came from, Kirby said. “We don’t know who owns this object,” he said.

He said the object went down on the far northeastern part of Alaska near the Canadian border. He said the American pilot’s assessment was that no human was onboard.

The Federal Aviation Administration said it closed some airspace around Deadhorse, Alaska to support Department of Defense activities.

Published in Dawn, February 11th, 2023