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Getting caught, and doing it frequently, that is a significant change and violation of norms and international law, in terms of respect for a countrys airspace. brute respect for a countrys airspace. we had in that press conference that the reason why these objects were shot down, britain, despite the fact that they didnt really pose any risk generally, was that they posed a risk to the airspace, because they were floating around about how high a commercialjet would fly the. commercial aviation,...

U.s. and international commercial airliners, which is one of the reasons they gave the u.s. to taking it down. in the case of the canadian object, we dont know what altitude it was a, prime minister trudeau made the decision to take it down in consultation with the united states. not clear the reasons why they made that choice though, so there is still a lot more to learn about both of these incidents. whats really interesting, ayman, and to the point then made, we have not heard any description...

These are in fact, three chinese surveillance devices, which there is no evidence to suggest that, does that mean we are closer to consequence shine at than we thought? >> this may be a technical question, but what qualifies as high altitude compared to the spy balloon? the spy balloon was at some point indeed 35,000 range. i would suspect by definition, that would be high altitude, but its much higher than the. i guess officials did not feel that the falling debris, both the one shot over alask...

Balloon, object was actually flying, where it was floating, however, it was traversing, and that is about 40,000 feet, thats the top end of where commercial airliners usually fly and while this is a sparsely sparsely area, that and they had no concept of what this was, created an unacceptable risk when it came to how the pentagon was doing things and what the recommendations were to president biden. they were first indications of this on thursday evening, the president was briefed on thursday ev...

The united states over a period of several days. and the reason here, the driving reason according to officials ive spoken to, is where this balloon -- or where this object was actually flying, where it was floating, however it was trav traversing. that is at 40,000 feet. that is the top end of where commercial airliners usually fly. that in the minds of u.s. officials, who had no concept of what this actually was, created an unacceptable risk, one official told me, when it came to how the penta...

Chinese balloon that entered u.s. aur space two weeks ago. so that puts it at 40,000 feet. that make it is a possible collision hazard for commercial airliners. so that was the logic for shooting it down once it was identified as being unhabited. >> are there other civilian abouts beyond aircraft at that level? im try ing to ask and not be s naive, but how much stuff is floating around at that height? >> not a lot. but 40,000 feet is particularly over alaska one might think, jeez, alaska is way ...

Feet, which is higher than most commercial airliners fly, but it is within the range that a civilian jet could fly and you do get some planes above that altitude, i believe, so this posed more of a direct safety risk to air traffic over the united states than at first chinese balloon did, which was so high it was only going to affect any stray you to pilots all starring weather balloon operators in the area. i pilots all starring weather balloon operators in the area.— operators in the area. i...

It is already inside u.s. airspace just north of anchorage, alaska prefer the pentagon and norad are not confirming that report. oxygen out to get into specific tactics or techniques we may or may not use when observing these types of things. again norad ascent up aircraft to observe to see what it was. >> heres what we do know pentagon pat reiter said this object was shot down at 1:45 p.m. eastern yesterday inside u.s. airspace over the northeast coast of alaska. his first detected thursday nig...

Here at the white house jon kirby explained. >> posed eight reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight. out of an abundance of caution and the recommendation of the pentagon president biden ordered the military to down the objects. >> the pentagon said the object was shot down it was cursing at 40000 feet over alaska. the same altitude dangerously close to many commercial airliners, arthel. arthel: seen that chinook helicopter on skis is pretty awesome. lucas tomlinson thank you. eric. e...

Briefing immediately following the white house announcement of the shootdown. i take it that this was somewhat coordinated today. what did they say? >> there is no question, sean, depending on spokesman writing deer general pat ryder object shot down at 1:45 eastern time in u.s. airspace evidence off the northeast coast of canada. flying at 40,000 feet, dangerously close to the altitude of some commercial airliners. norad launched a pair of f-22 raptors. this time air force base in anchorage. on...