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Went missing. it was last spotted over the yukon territory in alaska, on the same day that the u.s. government shot down an unidentified object a similar description, altitude, and location with a lockheed martin f-22. so, there is a non zero chance that the u.s. government used a 400,000 dollar missile to shoot a ham radio transmitter on a 12 -dollar balloon, out of the sky. today president biden confirmed that other than the initial chinese spy balloon, the three other mystery objects to the u...

S cyber inclusion in our databases. putting all that aside, this is a new collection system, we want to know what theyre doing, we have to be able to communicate directly to them, to knock it off. apparently, the department of defense tracked this balloon from its lift off in hainan island, all the way the that to the united states. in the future, will probably communicate clearly, aggressively to chinese, you cannot loiter over the united states. and 60,000 feet and under basically an internati...

President biden is a decent person. >> hes trying to do his job and and i think that he won two three . oh, really? the fact that he did not shootbo the balloon down initially when he crossed through alaska, i think is something that he deeply regret. what that tragic shooting atean im not saying justifies itusti silly. >> we dont knowfies the the three dangerous. >> it could have been partylloos balloons, i mean, or researc omh or private companies, thi whatever it is , recreational ng i good t...

Collection effort using these balloons. their global in nature including the united states. now, its out in the open. were gonna have to do something about it. a new policy of how to deal with intrusions in our sovereignty, the giant balloon that we shot down initially will be exploited, theyll tell the american people in congress what was in it, it clearly was intelligence collection. thats a central story. the second story, how are we going to deal with unknown objects in u.s. sovereign airspa...

Balloons are coming from China and collecting intelligence. But they have been doing so for some time and should not cause such massive alarm.

Able, to recover much of the debris. which we will exploit. well study it, well learn from it. we also took advantage of the time that it was flying over the country to learn from the system itself, while it was in-flight. we collected on them while they were trying to collect on us. >> general, can you pull back the curtain for us, give us a sense of what the u.s. could learn from that debris? what the u.s. could learn from watching the movement of that balloon? >> i think much of the intellige...

Needs to be shot out the sky basically as soon as we see it, but maybe we need to cool our jets here literally. joining us now is shane harris, intelligence and national security reporter for "the washington post." thank you for being here. the balloon and science experiment is something happening in middle schools all over the country, and maybe were using f-22 fighter jets to shoot them down. is this the new normal? do you feel the pentagon has to adopt a new political posture -- a new posture...

Our country is in a full-blown political panic about China's not-a-spy-balloon, but we should just relax. After all, Americans spy by balloon all the time.

Experiment made easy because balloons like this are cheap and easy for civilians to get their hands on. you can buy a high altitude balloon for as little as $12. an illinois hobbyist group that uses balloons like these has now come forward to say their balloon which they were using to float ham radio transmitters went missing. it was last spotted over the yukon territory in alaska at the same time the u.s. shot down a high altitude balloon. so theres a chance the u.s. government used a $400,000 ...

>> brian: peter, i never thought i would hear this phrase. the fbi contacted the hobby club. just that right there. >> ainsley: norad. >> brian: and the hobby club actually tried to turn themselves. in im guilty of having a balloon hobby. >> steve: we were tracking it until we lost it they said on sunday. >> peter: got to put yourself in that room. its a hobby club and they are watching. hey, wheres our balloon on whatever day, february 10th? >> brian: they were tracking it. >> peter: hey, bill,...