Fighter jet shoots down object over U.S. waters

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🗓️ 11 February 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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The Pentagon says a fighter jet shot down a “high-altitude object” over Alaska that appeared to be unmanned. The object was flying at an altitude of 40,000 feet and was the “size of a small car” but a U.S. official says it didn’t seem to have any surveillance equipment. Former Defense Secretary William Cohen tells Anderson Cooper he thinks the President wanted to send a message of, “if you invade our airspace, we’re going to take it out.” Plus, CNN Chief International Security Correspondent Nick Paton Walsh joins AC360 from Antakya, Turkey, where search and rescue teams are still looking for survivors of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that’s killed more than 23,000 people.

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0:00.0	Good evening and this time no one waited.
0:03.2	Just days after Chinese spy balloon was allowed to drift across the country until safely
0:06.9	off the Carolina coast, another unidentified object was spotted over Alaska.
0:11.6	In this case, though, fighter jets were scrambled to investigate and then to shoot it down.
0:15.9	President Biden was asked about it a long after.
0:18.3	Do you have anything to say about the object shot down over Alaska?
0:27.3	President and Scali out would join us now with more on how all of this played out and
0:30.1	how the administration is handling it.
0:31.4	So what else has the administration said about this object?
0:34.8	Well here's what we know Anderson.
0:36.3	This mysterious object is a size of a small car.
0:39.5	It was unmanned.
0:40.8	It didn't appear to have the capability to maneuver itself within the wind stream and also according
0:46.2	to a US official, it didn't appear to have surveillance equipment on board.
0:50.5	So those are some significant details but we really don't know the answer to the major
0:54.5	question here, which is who was responsible for sending this up into the sky?
0:59.2	Listen to what the NSE's John Kirby said about that earlier today at the White House.
1:05.0	We're calling this an object because that's the best description we have right now.
1:09.9	We do not know who owns it, whether it's a state owned or corporate owned or privately
1:17.9	owned.
1:18.9	We just don't know.
1:20.6	Now what he also said significantly, Anderson, is that this mysterious object was traveling
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