The day after what the Pentagon described as a “high altitude airborne object” was shot down off Alaska’s Arctic coast, recovery efforts for its remnants continued Saturday as Alaska-based fighter jets again scrambled to down another object over Canada.
The governor and state’s congressional delegation said Friday that they supported the decision to strike down the object that entered Alaska’s airspace.
“I’ve driven this point home for years, and we have now been reminded twice in the past week: Alaska is the first line of defense for America. When threats to America come to Alaska’s doorstep, we respond,” Murkowski said in a statement.Sullivan said the U.S. needs “to reestablish deterrence with regard to Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party which believes they can willfully infiltrate American airspace whenever they want.
Dunleavy used the occasion to blast the administration of Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden for not shooting down a high-altitude surveillance balloonlate last month before it drifted over the Lower 48. The balloon, which U.S. officials say originated in China, was shot down off the coast of South Carolina on Feb. 4, less than a week before Friday’s shoot-down operation in Alaska.
She said she got the news of the closure not long after she awoke at 6 a.m. from parents trying to understand what was going on, she said.
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