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Something. >> we assessed whether they posed any kinetic threat to people on the ground. they did not. we assessed whether they were sending any communication signals. we detected none. we looked to see whether they were maneuvering or had any row pull shop capabilities. we saw no signs of that. >> reporter: here is what we know so far about the objects in the sky. according to u.s. officials, the object shot down ten miles off the coast of alaska on friday was a metallic object that broke up in...

But now we are seeing a lot of this stuff. now the question to shooting those down, i take the white house at the word who say they are not a danger. they do worry about the incursion into airspace. therefore i would suggest that we would probably need a better policy than spending the movies of dollars involved in an attack on a balloon and deploying special forces to find the remains of those balloons. i think a lot of it is speculative. >> is it possible that one or more of these recently sho...

States. no wonder china doesnt even return their calls. why should they? the biden administration, is far more comfortable criticizing trump voters, certainly criticizing trump voters harshly than they are the ccp. >> the china balloon did that have any -- was it emitting signals back? >> im not going to go into more details about the capabilities of that. >> laura: what we do know is that, over the course of less than two weeks, our military has been in the debris collection business. >> i want...

What is publicly available. thus far, apparently no wreckage has been recovered from any of these shoot downs, although there is apparently an effort for the one off of south carolina. its striking that no specific country has been affiliated with the three smaller objects that have been shot down and that they do seem to be behaving differently. so i think theres a great deal of curiosity on everyones part about exactly what are these objects, what is their payload, and why now all of a sudden ...

Its not a non-zero implication. it matters. and we should look into it, but we shouldnt panic either. >> fair enough. and let me just kind of walk you through this one, the other detail that we do have here. the balloon that -- or the airborne object that was shot down over the yukon, so thats in canada, is being described as a small metallic balloon with a tethered payload below it. small metallic balloon. does that mean anything to you as someone who has seen intelligence on reports on these k...

So so far, i dont like saying that we have practice in this, we obviously do, but they had an expectation that something like this could happen and then they seem to have performed about as well as you can expect to in those -- when it actually does happen. >> what a terrifying situation for kids. and now counseling will have to come next for sure. just a dramatic experience and loss of life. julia, thank you so much. the unidentified flying object shot down in canadian air space saturday appe...

Span of recent flying objects and U.S. government intervention has lawmakers talking in the aisle in Helena.

>> president biden has yet to address the matter, but well be listening closely because hes about to speak at a conference of the national association of counties. so we will keep our ear to that. and for the first time, were hearing that u.s. intelligence officials do have a leading explanation for those three most recent objects. nbcs ryan nobles is on capitol hill and nbcs tom costello is following the investigation. tom, you know and you heard the frustration from the senator, there are many...

Administration has talked about it, you know, its not a balloon. its an object. its an unidentified flying object. thats how we always characterize things from mars. >> katie: not an alien though. >> steve: this is why the "new york post" has this on their cover "take me to your leaders." white house bumbling to insist its not aliens. apparently the "new york times" has got some great reporting on in this morning. this is something. a sign of how closely the united states was monitoring the ball...

Rarely been as important as it is now. >> wheres president biden? why? >> yeah, theres two key explanations that i have been getting from the white house. the first of which is that look, there are a lot of unknowns here still at play. theres a concern about the president getting ahead of where things actually are in terms of what the intelligence community knows or initial information provish to ultimately change, which as we know can happen with these intelligence assessments. the other questi...