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And pressurisation of the cockpit. typically, aircraft are designed to operate at really extreme altitudes above that, like the u—2 spy plane or the 71 blackbird, again, spy plane. crews would wear kind of spacesuits, full pressure suits, and most jet fighters arent equipped for that. also, where there have been previous examples of weather balloons, for example, or surveillance balloons from the us side that have kind of got lost or cables have broken, where fighters have tried to shoot them ...

Balloon and im not going to be able to be more specific than that. china responded by saying it was just a weather balloon that had been blown off course. the us military said they couldnt shoot it down for fear of causing debris or damage below, so it was only when it drifted across america and out over the atlantic that they eventually shot it down. the spotting of the first balloon led north american air defense, norad, to adjust their radar settings. domestic political pressure may have play...

So what are the balloons actually being used for? the answer is espionage. they carry sensors to collect signals and data as they fly over locations. us officials are analysing the wreckage they recovered from the sea in order to try and understand what exactly those sensors do and what china was after. you dont need to get into specifics, just, did we know what theyre trying to collect, yes or no? yes, sir. we understand that this is part of a broader suite of operations that china is undertaki...

Where a balloon is coming from. for example, a satellite or a drone, you could say its coming from x countrys military, but with a balloon, its more benign. and so beijing tried to say that it was being used for meteorological purposes. a bit of deniability about what theyre really up to, you mean? what do we know about the chinese balloon programme, then? so we know that they have been doing this throughout the world, that a lot of these are connected. and this instance with the united states h...

>> it would have to be from china. if its a chinese balloon. i mean that with all due respect. thats the least it can do. >> well -- >> i was going to say -- >> im moving on. >> obvious. [ laughter ] >> you fought bernie back out here if you talk about extraterrestrials and balloons. in the quality. >> if youre looking for proof there is life in outer space, intelligent life in outer space, look no further than russell. there is another accounting for how a -- >> im glad that became a compliment...

About the depletion of our stockpiles, and also this cost big money and money is not going on shes in washington last time i checked. >> im sorry laura, this actually drives me crazy. and with all due respect that is not responsible or credible. i dropped leno who is actually command amanda specific said that we need to have intense urgency to avoid a war. in the reality is that assessments are in the open suggest that we run out of ammunition and the tyler long conflict in a like a week. either...

There is life on other planets that are visiting us or scouting us. >> bill -- >> even the u.s. -- [ laughter ] >> im just saying its possible. >> sure, it is quite possible but if you think that something from another universe came all the way here and was kind of dragging around and shot down very easily -- [ laughter ] -- i think if its a ufo they would have done better in avoiding -- >> first of all -- [ cheers ] >> were not saying its from another universe, were saying its from the same uni...

Commentary “Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon,” or so the great writer A.A. Milne would have us ...

To address the ufo issue. they exist. theyre actually called unidentified aerial phenomena now, and there are hundreds of reports from us pilots about them which get catalogued. they get investigated, not so much because they might be extraterrestrials or aliens, but because the us fears they might be some new technology from another country. and many of those reports may, in fact, have been balloons or similar objects. its now emerged that the other three unidentified objects shot down between ...

Do we know what the chinese communist government was looking for? senator, we have some very good guesses about that and we are learning more as we exploit the contents of the balloon and the payload itseif~ — 0k. what might the chinese be trying to find out? lee hudson covers defence and aerospace for politico. lee, what were these balloons doing, particularly these chinese spy balloons? so, it seems, according to the us intel community, that they were gathering not only images, but electroni...