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Ya, kenthailand, india, they he over alaska. so it is a concern that any object flying in that air space, particularly if its not controlled, like it aunt peer this is one wasnt. quite frank ly the classificatin of this object is pretty quizzical. first, theres been no indication of its origin. second, it was described in the short news conference at the pentagon had is not resembling an aircraft. but then again, they didnt confirm that it was a balloon. so it will remain an unidentified flying ...

Operations like this are human endeavors, theres always going to be a tad hesitation, you want to gather as much information as you can, the one thing you cannot reclaim is time, so you go back to the balloon, first appeared on the radar, by the north american air defense command, out of colorado springs, when it was over the aleutians, so the discussion begins, what do we need to do? what do we think this is? and that object, that balloon was maneuverable, so it is continuing to move. and by th...

That small very unlikely that it was man. and so again, no indication that it was man. presented a potential reasonable threat to civilian air traffic, we took it down. >> that was only two hours after this whole incident. they werent ready to say very much. obviously, we just have all these questions. they are also indicating that that objects seem to be traveling with the wind, which seems to suggest that it doesnt have an engine, it is not an aircraft. and yet, theyre not saying its a balloon...

Indicate that we take away automatically, all of chinas trade relations with the united states, if they invade, and the third would be to force american companies to reveal, and the reports to shareholders, how dependent they are on china. hopefully that will inspire them to become less dependent, and to compete for capital by way of american investors are showing how resilient they would be. to what may be an interruption in the economic relationship with china. we dont know where this is going...

Havent told us what it was, and i think they need to do that to clear the air. this is clearly reaction from the president, general milley, lloyd austin, they were a little embarrassed what happened last time. >> reporter: as for the suspected chinese spy craft, chinas foreign ministry maintains america overreacted writing in a statement that u.s. lawmakers are, quote: hyping up the balloon for political manipulate. joey, rachel, pete? pete: alexandria, thank you for that report. lets bring in s...

Be a weather balloon. these are launched by the thousands every day. we know thats not what it is. its come from somewhere in asia, china, could be north korea, could be russia somewhere. whats it doing there? these are questions we want to see answered. as for protecting us air space, i think were doing very well so far. >> publicly, while we may not no a whole lot about it, is it your feeling that military surveillance was able to ascertain a good amount about what that object is to know that ...

Very much. >> -- man in the arena, and i just wanted to -- pete: somebody else is going to have to buy a beer next time joey and i walk in. >> thats what im talking about. i got army, i got marine corps, i wore my navy socks, joint service. and the other thing -- rachel: and im an air force brat. >> were all covered. rachel: we do need to do that, yeah. >> the most important thing was like so you guys understand, i got up and did my rehearsals and turned on and saw brian out there at, like, what...

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 just a few balloons to the 60—plus balloons they have coming today. back when it started, it was the idea ...

Was a chinese spy balloon. jon donnison reports. its almost a week since the us military shot down what it said was a chinese spy balloon off the coast of south carolina. now the pentagon says fighterjets like these have intercepted another unidentified object, this time in the skies above alaska. we have no further details about the object at this time, including any description of its capabilities, purpose, or origin. the object was about the size of a small car, so not similar in size or shap...

About it buried in the lead and in the press conference, came up 11 minutes into the press conference because of an errant question and not much more. what do you think? >> first of all, i think that the president acted a bit different than he did than when the balloon came over and took this thing down, where we should have taken the balloon down. now, that said, i am very concerned about this whole situation here because of the way we hesitated in the balloon-- taking the balloon down, if you ...