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Its not like we can fly over china and observe one of their balloons. so this was an opportunity to gain intelligence. so i think that may have been a valid argument. all to say i think it would be a good thing if we had a protocol that could be explained both to the public and especially the congress about the ground rules. >> director clapper, one can gather -- like in the balloon incident, you can gather intelligence just by following the balloon, watching it, reading signals off it or someth...

Is itjust obvious that if theres too much wind, the balloon will be uncontrollable? theres a lot of that. its not that its uncontrollable. it means that the landing will be faster, so you need a bigger space in which to land the balloon. so, not ideal. that suggests this is quite a challenging place for this event to take place? it is, yes. yeah, its not the easiest. but i think thats what attracts most of us here is the challenge, so... the festival began over a0 years ago and has grown from ju...

From them about what the flight path might have been for the object that was shot down yesterday. >> so out as weve noted, this is the second object to be caught flying in u.s. airspace in less than a week. i know michael, we dont know the origin, or the providence of this second object. but how concerning does this become for national security at this point? have we reached a point where its being viewed as some type of national security crisis? >> i think so, i think this is a tangible example...

WASHINGTON - Images from U2 spy planes showed that the Chinese balloon that flew over the United States last week was unmistakably equipped for collecting intelligence and not weather data, a US official said Thursday.

Object, flying it 40,000 feet over american airspace in alaska. notably, officials arent saying which country owns the object. they also arent calling it a balloon, unlike the chinese spy balloon, the military shot down on sunday after it traversed and hovered over parts of the continental united states last week. we now know that the balloon is part of a chinese surveillance balloon fleet which had been observed in more than 40 countries across five continents. joining me now is pulitzer prize-...

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All of that more is coming up. ♪ ♪ ♪ good saturday morning to you, i am katie phang. u.s. officials are learning more about the second flying object that was shot down, this time over alaska. in an exclusive interview with nbc news, alaskan senator, lisa murkowski says she was briefed and was told that the object is not a balloon. heres what we do know so far, the mystery object was about the size of a small car, pentagon officials say it was flying 40,000 feet in the air and was unmanned....

Investigated and identifiedject the object using fighter aircraft. the object was flying at an altitude of 40000 feet and posed a reasonable threat to the safet y of civilian flight. we have no furtherer detailst th about the object at this time. including any description of its capabilities, purpose or origin. the object wasthe object was abe of a small car , so not similare in size or shape to the high altitude surveillance balloon that wasrveillan taken down offt the coast of south carolina. ...

With the object was flying at an altitude of 40,000 feet, and posed a reasonable threat at the safety of the civilian and at the recommendation of the pentagon, president biden ordered the military to down the object. >> it was retired admiral, john kirby, it was shot down over u.s. territory. they were discovered flying over the united states, and was eventually shot down by the u.s. military. officials have not confirmed today, whether or not this new object was also a balloon, and what his co...

The chinese balloon from last week. tell us what you know about what happened tonight. >> yeah, very interesting. starting last night, they tracked this object heading into u.s. airspace around alaska. president gave in order to go head and sit down. today, they shut it down. its not the same thing as what we saw last week. its not -- first about, we dont know if its a balloon or not. its the size of a car, they say, as opposed to last weeks chinese balloon, which is the size of three trucks. th...