The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) near Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, closing air space for a "National Security Air mission." That's what they did off South Carolina before shooting down the first China Balloon!
A U.S. Air Force C-130 refueling tanker has been on-station for about the past thirty minutes and remains in the area, as seen from the radar image below:
The full Notice from the FAA is screen-shot below:
UPDATE 3:07 PM EST --
The U.S. has downed an unidentified object over Alaska at the order of President Biden. It's not confirmed if the object was a balloon but it was traveling at an altitude that made it a potential threat to aircraft.
UPDATE 3:11 EST --
AFRQ52827 remains on site. Marine recovery is unlikely due to ice and weather conditions. Far harder operation than the one we saw last week off SC.
Alaska National Guard, FBI, participated.
The object shot down was about the size of a small car. Not similar in size or shape to surveillance balloon.
The object shot down over Alaska did not appear to be "self-moving and was at the mercy of the wind"
The US aircraft involved in the shoot down was an F-22 fighter jet which fired an A-9X "Sidewinder" missile.
LOCAL WARNING RADAR SITES
The image below shows the location of US Warning Radar sites in that area; they are significant: FPS-117 long range and FPS-124 short range radars.
Here is a description for those radar sites:
UPDATE 4:13 PM EST --
COVERT INTEL -- URGENT
PREMIUM CONTENT:
This section of the article is only available for Subscribers who support this web site with $1 a week billed either Quarterly ($13) or monthly ($5).
This is necessary because this is a CLOUD-BASED web site. The way it works is YOU READ . . . I GET BILLED for "Data Transfer."
Despite being politely asked for voluntary donations, few people ever bothered to donate. Then, despite being asked to click an ad within a story to generate ad revenue for this site, the majority of the general public couldn't be bothered with that, either. So there's no reason to give the general public free news anymore; they don't pull their own weight.
With tens-of-thousands of people reading stories here every day, the costs nearly drove the site out of business.
In order to be able to continue providing cutting-edge news, often hours or even DAYS before Drudge and most of the "mass-media" -- if they even cover it at all -- I need to be able to sustain this effort. To do that, I rely on folks like YOU contributing a pittance of about $1 a week; which is chump-change that you won't even miss! Yet that small amount makes all the difference in the world to the continued existence of this web site.
In the final analysis, knowledge is power. Getting information first, or info that other sources simply don't report, is usually well worth a few bucks in the long run.
Please click here to choose a subscription plan in order to view this part of the article.
Subscribers LOGIN to see the story.
*** If you are having trouble logging-in, email:
YOU MUST SET YOUR WEB BROWSER TO "ACCEPT COOKIES" FROM THIS SITE IN ORDER TO LOGIN OR ELSE YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SEE PREMIUM CONTENT.
