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High-ranking diplomats from Japan and South Korea say that the two countries support the U.S. response to a suspected Chinese spy balloon as no country is allowed to infringe on another's territorial sovereignty.

Altitude spying balloons, with unidentified flying objects being shot down by fighter jets. shot down by fighterjets. and with washington and beijing trading accusations and criticism. over the past few days, american fighterjets have shot down three more unidentified objects. the us downed an object off northern alaska which officials said lacked any system of propulsion. on february 11th a us fighterjet shot down a "high—altitude airborne object" over canadas yukon territory, described by of...

Was a chinese spy craft, a balloon, however, one taken down by u.s. air force f 16 fighter jet u.s. officials saying the first side winder heat seeking missile missed the target. not clear where that missile land. buff the second side winder missile ultimately took down this unknown object. none of the object debris we are told has been discovered or recovered in lake huron or the surrounding area. and just a side note, each side winder missile costs about $400,000 olivia beavers reporter for po...

Were looking for more. >> their altitude z were considerably lower than the chinese high-altitude balloon and did pose a threat to civilian commercial air traffic. while we have no specific reason to suspect they were conducting surveillance of any kind, we couldnt rule that out. >> the chinese balloon flew at 60,000 feet while the three unidentified objects had the altitude of 40,000 feet or lower. just into the newsroom, sources say the objects brought down over alaska and canada friday and sa...

>> i think we wanted to be cautious about what it was. i think once you made the determination that it did not pose an imminent threat to aircraft flying in the united states, 66,000 feet, then you could take a very deliberate approach. having said that, i think we would all prefer to have shot it down before it entered or as it entered u.s. air space and i would guess that is probably what would happen again. it is important to distinguish between the reaction to the first balloon and the other...

Filters. we do know we need to modernize our radars up along the norad line. i think we need to enhance it with artificial intelligence machine learning. but all of this is going to help us better surveil our airsairsp. look, w with regard to the chin, they found a gap and theyve been doing the same thing in 40 countries and five continents. and the balloons are most notably over a target area, and we saw that in montana. >> what do you make of the fact that the chinese military does not have an...

Objects and see what they do? part of the calculus is political. joe biden received a lot of flak for not taking down the chinese balloon so a lot of politics at play here along with the fact the american military is on heightened alert to see what is over the country. to see what is over the country-— to see what is over the count . , �* ., , country. president biden has acted more _ country. president biden has acted more swiftly _ country. president biden has acted more swiftly in - count...

Equipment. there is suspicion that these last two might be as well. but that is not being confirmed. so, until we have more information, i think and i have that information expressed clearly to the american people -- and hopefully the diplomatic channels are trying to come to a consensus and make sure that this does not escalate into an even greater international incidents. that is why i think the concern is real. it is what i am hearing -- >> give me your thoughts. we dont know if these objects...

Of new haven, for his assessment. if we assume it is china and, again, we do not know that it is china, then what you see here is a provocation. you see china attempt to study american response to these kinds of events, right, and to study primarily not the military response but the political response. they have already induced us to do something we did not used to do, which is to shoot down these attempts, these spy balloons, which you see with the first balloon, so, if the second balloon was l...

When the first balloon was a spotted, it was quite alarming for people, being able to see it with the naked eye, film it on their phones. it was quite alarming. they knew that there were satellites in the sky from china but the fact that they could see these with their own eyes and film them made people feel quite differently? it did. it has captivated americans, a, because it has been on tv and, b, you could step outside your window if you were in any one of these states and actually look up an...