China’s latest spy balloon: US fighter jets shoot down new ‘thing’ over Alaska

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene reportedly screamed and cursed at Biden administration officials during a closed-door briefing for not shooting down the Chinese spy balloon earlier.

Ms Greene seemed proud of herself when she recounted the meeting.

“I had to wait in line the whole time. I think I’m the second to last person, and I chew them like the Americans do,” Ms Greene said. The Hill. “I tore them apart.”

House lawmakers were asked to attend a classified debriefing Thursday about the shot down of the alleged spy balloon.

A legislator attended the meeting and spoke The Hill said Ms Greene, whooping and screaming.

“When he asked, he screamed, saying ‘bulls***’ and, you know ‘I don’t believe you,'” the lawmaker told the outlet. “Just screaming and yelling, unreasonable in my estimation.”

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The incident happened a week after a Chinese spy balloon was shot down in South Carolina.

“We call it a ‘thing’ because that’s the best description we have at the moment,” Mr Kirby said.

“We don’t know who owns it, whether it’s state-owned or corporate-owned or privately owned, we just don’t know.

“We do not understand the full purpose, we do not have any information to prove a stated purpose for this matter.

“We expect to recover the debris because it fell not only within our territory but what we believe is frozen water. A recovery effort will be made and we hope it will be successful and we will learn more about it.

“It’s much, much smaller than the spy balloon we took on Saturday.

“The way it is described to me is almost the size of a small car as opposed to a payload the size of two or three buses. Smaller and uneven, no significant cargo if you will. “

“I can confirm that the Department of Defense has been tracking a high-altitude object in the air over Alaska for the past 24 hours,” Mr Kirby said on Friday from the White House briefing room.

“The object was flying at an altitude of 40,000 ft and posed a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian aviation. Out of an abundance of caution and at the recommendation of the Pentagon President Biden ordered the military to bring the object down, and they did .

“It came within our territorial waters, those waters are now frozen, but within our territorial airspace. Fighter aircraft assigned to the US Northern Command picked up the object within the last hour.

At least three similar balloons have been over the US at some point during the Trump administration, according to White House and military officials.

The previous flights were “short” and “nothing like what we saw last week,” according to White House national security council spokesman John Kirby.

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The object was shot down by fighters from the US Northern Command, near Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.

The president says he wants it shot down as soon as possible.

The encounter came less than a week after US forces shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon that grabbed national headlines as it floated across the country.

Joe Biden was asked to comment on the “thing” that the US military shot down in Alaska as he waited on the South Lawn of the White House for Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Biden told reporters that “it’s a success”, according to CNN.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took to Twitter to say he had been informed of the US plan to shoot down an “object” flying over the waters of Alaska on Friday.

“This afternoon, something that violated American airspace was brought down. I was informed about the matter and supported the decision to act. Our military and intelligence services have always worked together, including through @NOADCommandto keep people safe,” Mr Trudeau tweeted.