An unnamed congressional aide claims the object was shaped 'like an octagon.' Sounds like BS, but you'd like to think the Wall Street Journal has some capacity to to identify and filter quality sources.
This was denied as being known by the military presser, and the general involved also made the ridiculous claim that they shot it down entirely to prevent an accident to civilian air traffic.
If it’s occupying airspace illegally, without a license to operate or a flight plan, without any means of control or contract, where it might become a deadly obstacle to legitimate air vehicles?
Who else but the military would enforce that kind of thing? The cops?
I'd like to think my congresspeople hire aides that have some capacity to identify and name shapes correctly. It's not unreasonable that something with an octagonal cross-section could also be described as cylindrical - from a distance it could be hard to tell, or one description was intentionally a bit vaguer.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/latest-flying-objects-shot-down...