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U.S. shoots down object that crossed into airspace near Alaska

There’s been a new incursion by an unidentified object high above American territory and the U.S. military has shot it down. It happened Friday afternoon off northeastern Alaska as the object flew at 40,000 feet. The Biden administration said it was the size of a small car, but what it was doing and where it came from are unclear. Nick Schifrin reports.

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