The pilots of US Air Force F-35 fighters sent to intercept the mystery
object over Alaska on Friday say that whatever it was had been
“interfering with the sensors of their aircraft” before they shot it down.

Three unidentified objects have been spotted over North America in the
past 10 days. The first, a giant airship “the size of three buses” is
understood to have originated in China although the US and Chinese
governments disagree about its exact purpose.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/baffled-pilots-who-shot-down-29198269

While the Pentagon says it was a spy balloon, China says the monster
airship was a civilian craft designed to monitor weather systems – but
even if that turns out to be correct, the two smaller objects sighted
over the US in recent days remain unexplained.

The USAF pilots who shot down the object over Alaska “were not able to
identify what they saw,” reports CNN's Natasha Bertrand.

“When the US first detected this object over Alaska on Thursday, they
sent up F-35 jets to … see what was going on,” she explained. “And these
pilots reported back very conflicting accounts”.

The pilots of the cutting-edge stealth fighters said “that this object
was actually interfering with the sensors of their aircraft and they
couldn't figure out why, because there was no identifiable kind of
surveillance equipment on the object,” she said.

The pilots were also mystified as to what kind of aircraft they were
actually dealing with.

According to Bertrand, the pilots “were saying that they did not see
anything on the object that appeared able to propel it, that it seemed
like there was no way that this was actually able to stay in the air”.

It’s possible that in the head of the high-speed, high-altitude
encounter the pilots may have misinterpreted the type of aircraft, which
was described as being “about the size of a small car”.

A Pentagon official told ABC News that the object was “cylindrical and
silver-ish gray” and gave the “balloon-like” appearance of floating
without “any sort of propulsion”.

Asked whether the Alaska object was related to the giant Chinese airship
spotted over Missouri, Brig. Gen. Ryder said they appeared to be very
different, saying it was like comparing “apples and oranges”.

### - lol, in chasing after chinese spy balloons it looks like we've
only gone and shot down a couple of genuine ufo's as well?? :)))

hey, so maybe these aliens will be OUR nelson mandela then eh?

wouldn't that be a hoot!?

the whole world unites to defeat a NEW common foe...

fucking aliens LOL ! Argggggh EVERYBODY RUUUUNNNNN!!! :D

(if only! - a sci-fi story straight outta arthur c. clarke's:
Childhood's End)