• The United States shoots down an "aerial object" over the Arctic coast of Alaska

More than 24 hours after the incident, the United States had provided no additional information about the strange "unidentified flying object" it shot down on Friday in Alaska, north of the Arctic Circle.

The only thing that could be added to the case was that the object was cylindrical, silver in color, did not appear to have any propulsion system, and apparently did not have any devices to carry out espionage operations.

Perhaps the best summary was given by retired Air Force Lt. Gen. David Deptula, who in an interview with CNN television called the whole incident

"rather perplexing."

The US government has not reported that it has found the remains of the ship, which fell on the ice pack, that is, the layer of ice that covers the Arctic Ocean at this time of year.

Nor has it revealed the direction the "object" was following,

which had the size "of a small car", which, translated into the dimensions of automobiles in the US, would probably mean, in Europe, a medium-sized car.

The shootdown took place over the north coast of Alaska, about 50 kilometers west of the Prudhoe Bay oil field and about 200 kilometers east of the border with Canada's Yukon Territory.

Between the demolition site and Canada there is only one population center: the town of Kaktovik

.

It is one of the most isolated communities in all of North America, with about 250 inhabitants, who live primarily by fishing for bowhead whales, beluga whales, and arctic narwhals, as well as the hundreds of thousands of caribou that migrate each summer from the South.

The fact that the area is remote does not mean that it lacks interest.

The object was shot down over one of the largest unexploded oil fields

in America, and when it fell it was just above Bullen Point, where the US had radar from 1957 to 1994 to monitor the possible arrival of Soviet atomic missiles through the Arctic ( if an atomic war broke out between the US and Russia, the missiles would go to their targets through the North Pole, because that is the shortest route).

The strange flying 'thing' was also very close to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, which since 1978 has carried oil from Prudhoe Bay to the Valdez terminal in southern Alaska.


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