It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a High Altitude Object!
Okay, most of that dialog comes from the 1938 Superman comic, and was later used in the opening of the Superman TV program of that period. The Pentagon and government officials are calling the thing they shot down over the Alaskan coast an object.
What might it be? A balloon? A kite or paraglider? A remotely piloted drone? A glider? I guess that we will have to wait and see.
I won’t be surprised when the QAnon contingent claims that it is a UFO from space now being analyzed at Area 51. I feel an alien autopsy coming on.