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Of the three objects after the first shooting were not chinese origin but were balloons for weather observation. i think this whole incident... yes, in the interests of fairness mr gao, washington never said those three objects were of chinese origin, they said they were investigating what they were. i take your point that the investigations are continuing. but i wonder, if indeed what china says is true, that this was a weather balloon then why not tell the us or latin america, where another ba...

The united states openly talking about their words killer military capabilities of their products and one of them, this is incredible, ill show you, this is one of their founders put this screen up in a presentation and points to the balloon and says, oh, look theres the united states. fly right over. so there you have it. "outfront," neil degrasse tyson also the author of cosmic perspectives on civilization and many other books that i hope people will get. but so, neil, lets start here with the...

The objects may be “tied to commercial or research entities and therefore benign”, spokesman John Kirby said.

And we made sure that the airspace was clear of any commercial, civilian or recreational traffic. >> so small you cant see it. >> reporter: new audio from the pilots trying to figure out what that pilot was over the great lakes. >> some kind of dark object. you can see some strings hanging down below it. . >> the u.s. and canada havent yet recovered any debris from the last three objects shot down. a senior biden administration official says its possible they may never be able to. >> very, very ...

Several of the factory in recent years have been torn down. which edont know if it has anything to do with the six blacklisted companies, but beijings company has flown over the u.s. before according to state media. in this 2019 state media video, pointing to a computer screen showing the trajectory of an unmanned air ship flying around the world. he says look, this is the united states. beijing claims the balloon that intruded u.s. airspace this month was only for civilian purposes. but u.s. in...

How and why -- how do we change that narrative and why do you think that is? >> i think its been an incredibly frustrating cycle for those of us covering chinese espionage and sabotage. i always thought what is it going to take to get the american public and policy makers to make that? if we could see a bomb go off at every company thats been breached that would do it, and now its a balloon over every company and every american. when i first started covering "the new york times," and theres been...

Absolutely not. a balloon is, for everyone to see, it is not very much used in espionage. a balloon is mostly used in weather observation, as the united states acknowledged that the shooting of the three objects after the first shooting were not chinese origin but were balloons for weather observation. i think this whole incident... yes, in the interest of fairness mr gao, washington never said those three objects were of chinese origin, they said they were investigating. i take your point that ...

Is repeat what they have said, and the commander of norad said he made an assessment on first detection and thats what they said on january the 28th that the balloon did not demonstrate hostile intent. i would argue it demonstrated hostile intent from the moment we knew it came from china, did we make an effort to call the chinese and say, one of your balloons is heading toward us? if you have control of that balloon, turn it around or were going to shoot it down? did we do that or just sit ther...

China told the united states it was a chinese balloon. it got out of control due to force majeure and deviated from its course and entered the united states by error. this is the track record. and i think the united states needs to disclose what happened between china and the united states about the specific nature of this balloon. now, for the united states to go to such a length to shoot down not only the chinese balloon but also shoot down with the most sophisticated fighter plane and missile...

Military personnel has launched an investigation into a recent UFO sighting that was reported by 20 people and not detected by air traffic control.