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The US has shot down another object, this one over Alaska. Here's what we know

For the second time in a week, the US has shot down an uninvited object in its airspace. Here's what we know about the latest incident.

ABC News

US downs unknown object over Alaska as China tension grows

President Joe Biden ordered the Pentagon to shoot down an object spotted at 40,000 feet over Alaska, less than a week after fighter jets targeted an alleged Chinese surveillance balloon that had crossed the U.S. and provoked a national uproar.

Tribune News Service

US fighter jet shoots down mystery object in skies high above Alaska

Pentagon says unidentified high-altitude craft was unmanned and smaller than Chinese balloon downed last week

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Everything we know about the mysterious ‘objects’ shot down by US warplanes

Three high-altitude objects were destroyed days after a fighter jet shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon

The Independent UK

US shoots down unknown object over Alaska as China tension grows

President Joe Biden ordered the Pentagon to shoot down an object spotted at 40,000 feet over Alaska less than a week after fighter jets targeted an alleged Chinese surveillance balloon that had crossed the U.S. and provoked a national uproar.

Tribune News Service

Why Biden ordered ‘object’ shot down over Alaska so quickly

The ‘object’ traveling at 40,000 feet above Alaska posed a greater threat to civilian air traffic than the espionage airship that floated 20,000 feet higher in the atmosphere

The Independent UK

Where in Alaska did military shoot down flying ‘object’ days after intercepting Chinese spy balloon?

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US shoots down unknown object flying above Alaska as spat with China over alleged spy balloon continues

U.S. fighter jets shot down an object flying at 40,000 feet over Alaska after officials determined it “posed a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight,” according to National Security Council spokesman John Kirby.

Tribune News Service

US says it shot down ‘high-altitude object’ over Alaska

Officials say Washington does not know origins of object, downed days after alleged Chinese ‘spy’ balloon flew over US.

Al Jazeera

Pentagon shoots down unknown object flying in U.S. airspace

The Pentagon has shot down an unknown object flying in U.S. airspace off the coast of Alaska

The Independent UK

US shoots down unknown object off coast of Alaska

An unknown object described as the size of a small car has been shot down in US airspace off the coast of Alaska, the White House says.

ABC News

US shoots down unknown flying object off the coast of Alaska

The US military has shot down an unknown object flying in US airspace off the coast of Alaska on the orders of President Joe Biden, White House officials said.

Evening Standard

Pentagon downs "high-altitude" object in U.S. airspace near Alaska

U.S. officials said the object "posed a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight."

Axios

The U.S. shot down an object over Alaska. The government doesn't know yet what it was

The incident comes just days after the U.S. shot down a Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina. This new object was smaller and lower, and it's not clear where it came from.

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The Independent UK

US shoots down ‘high-altitude object’ of ‘unknown origin’ over Alaska

The incident comes a week after a Chinese spy balloon was shot down over South Carolina

The Conversation

China violated international laws and standards with its surveillance balloon

The United States recently shot down a Chinese high-altitude balloon after it apparently travelled from China and flew over Alaska and British Columbia.

Daily Mirror

Human skull found nearly 50 years after man mauled to death by bear while hiking

Gary Frank Sotherden was reported missing in the late 1970s. A skull was later discovered by hunters in 1997 along the Porcupine River in Alaska, US, but police couldn't extract any DNA

Wales Online

Polar bear that killed a mother and her baby son in Alaska 'was in poor health'

The pair were mauled to death as they walked from school to a medical clinic

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The Independent UK

Human skull found in Alaska two decades ago belongs to man mauled by bear in 1976

Nearly 50 years after Gary Sotherden vanished while hiking in the remote Alaska interior, the mystery of his death has been solved through DNA

The Independent UK

Polar bear in fatal Alaska attack was in poor health

Officials say a polar bear that killed a young mother and her baby Jan. 17 in western Alaska was likely an older animal in poor physical condition

Chicago Sun-Times

U.S. shoots downs Chinese balloon off South Carolina coast

U.S. defense and military officials said Saturday that the balloon entered the U.S. air defense zone north of the Aleutian Islands on Jan. 28 and moved largely over land across Alaska and then into Canadian airspace in the Northwest Territories on Monday.

The Independent UK

A skull found in 1997 in remote part of Alaska actually belongs to a New York man

Alaska authorities say a skull found in a remote part of the state’s Interior in 1997 belongs to a New York man who likely died in a bear mauling

The Independent UK

Skull found in '97 in remote Alaska belongs to New York man

Alaska authorities say a skull found in a remote part of the state’s Interior in 1997 belongs to a New York man who likely died in a bear mauling

Reason

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

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Salon

In rare veto, EPA halts Alaska mine

Mining waste would have jeopardized the world’s largest sockeye salmon run

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