Incident comes six days after US shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon
Mr Kirby said the object was traveling at 40,000 feet. He said officials were describing it as an object because that was the best description they had of it.
Officials said the object over Alaska was not manoeuvrable and was at the mercy of the prevailing winds. Last weekend the US military shot down a Chinese balloon which the Biden administration has insisted was on a spying mission. China maintained it was a weather balloon that had strayed from its planned track.The payload on the balloon shot down over the coast of South Carolina last Saturday was estimated to be about the size of two or three single-deck buses. The Pentagon said on Friday that a “significant amount of debris” has been recovered from the downed balloon.
The object over Alaska was discovered on Thursday, the White House said. It said Mr Biden had been briefed about it on Thursday night. Mr Biden has faced strong criticism from opposition Republicans over delays in shooting down the Chinese balloon last week.
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