From the February 4, 2023, London Daily Mail "Downing of Chinese spy balloon is first time military hasshot down foreign aircraft over US soil since World War II" by Paul Farrell.
That balloon was pretty much all you heard about this past week. Was it a weather balloon that got away of spy balloon? Don't know.
A military fighter plane shot it down about 8 miles over the Atlantic Ocean on Saturday.
Not since a Japanese aerial attack on U.S. ships in Dutch Harbor in Alaska on June 4, 1942, when a Japanese fighter was shot down, has the military done this.
The incident has come to be known as Akutan Zero.
--GreGen
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