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Or extra—terrestrial life being involved. here is the national security spokespersonjohn kirby. we were able to determine that china has a high altitude programme for intelligence collection that is connected to the peoples liberation army. it was operating during the previous administration but they did not detected. we detected it. we tracked it. and we have been carefully studying it to learn as much again. we know that these prc surveillance balloons have crossed over dozens of countries o...

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Question, which former new york luxury hotels should we house them? laugh laugh [cheers and applause]. >> greg: meanwhile the white house admitted they havent been able to definitively say they cant say what they are but definitely not aliens. >> i know theres been questions and concerns about this but there is no indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity with these recent takedowns. >> greg: its amazing she even needed to look down to read that. i say that as i do this. maybe the big gu...

Huron, a second missile was needed. three sources familiar with what happened there say the f-16 fired a first heat-seeking side winder missile, but it missed, forcing the fighter pilot to fire a second missile to take down that object that slowly descended over lake huron. general vanhuerk did not acknowledge the missed missile. its not clear what happened, if it flew off or was misdirectedded. that goes into the questions that we have about these, namely, what are they, why are they so hard to...

At what level do they get noticed, when can they shoot us down and what can we put in or on this balloon to do real, real harm. it scares me and im losing faith greg. >> greg: another institution, the balloon industry i no longer trust. as a child all i thought was, wow, i love balloons and now im not so sure, my faith in balloons, helium and otherwise, have essentially deflated. >> oh. >> greg: boom. you hate balloons you must love watching them get blown to pieces. ha they shot another one dow...

Secretary esper was not in on it. exploiting something we were not monitoring with regard to the first what we now know is a pcr, you know, attached -- >> the large one. >> whats interesting, theres a lot to explore here but the other three, even if lets say its a weather balloon its flying in commercial airspace or at least the height that an aircraft would and how do we not have the capability to monitor that better? i think the president needs to get more information but at some point needs t...

Indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activities. >> reporter: pentagon says they didnt pose any direct threat to people on the ground, but even allies of president joe biden worry about the silence from the commander in chief. >> we have been i think as transparent as we can be. i wont speak for the presidents personal speaking schedule, but he has been deeply engaged in every one of these decisions. >> reporter: as for the ongoing recovery efforts for the balloon off the coast of south caro...

Efforts. and he is very much staying on top of the issue and directing his team to make sure we are properly consulting and briefing not just members of congress but state leaders as well and, of course, we are also doing what we can in the public sphere. >> steve: one of the other things they are making available now apparently this object that was in lake huron that we shot down as we reported yesterday it was octagon in shape. it wasnt round like a weather balloon it. had strings hanging off ...

Could have been spying on america. could have been spying on america-— could have been spying on america. ., ., ., america. even though we had no indications _ america. even though we had no indications that _ america. even though we had no indications that any _ america. even though we had no indications that any of _ america. even though we had no indications that any of these - indications that any of these three — indications that any of these three objects were surveilling, we couldnt r...

>> congresswoman, i know you have questions about what we are seeing with the biden administrations handling of these downed objects that we have seen following the downing of that chinese spy balloon off the coast of your home state. are you satisfied with how the white house has been handling this so far? >> i am not. i have more questions than i have answers. i thought the press conference yesterday was a little bungled. you know, we were told a week ago they didnt shoot down the chinese ball...