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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 shape to the high altitude surveillance balloon that was taken down off the coast of south carolina on february 4th. defence officials say this latest object had been flying at around 40,000 feet close to an area called prudhoe bay, much lower than last weeks balloo...

This is what i understood this morning listening to the pilot briefing. small changes, you know, that wouldnt affect many other leisure activities have such a big impact with the hot air balloons. yes. but you have to know that every season is different to fly. thats why if you want to be a good pilot, you have to fly every week. otherwise you are a bad pilot. with some balloons starting to take to the skies, ijoin nick in the basket. oh, wow. and within just a few seconds, we are whisked high u...

Things have calmed down and the roads are being cleared. but rebuilding relationships here — well, thats going to take a lot longer. as most police withdrew from the area and the roads were cleared of debris, half a dozen vans with officers and police dogs spent the night inside the hotel gates to make sure things remained calm. officials in the united states have been attempting to recover debris from a high—altitude object that was shot down over alaska last night. the white house said pre...

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Transiting the continental united states for days or weeks. wreckage of last weeks balloon has now been recovered, and is being analysed by us intelligence. they want to do the same with whatever they find in alaska. meanwhile, chinese officials have accused the us of political manipulation and hype. jon donnison, bbc news. fifteen people, including a 13—year—old boy, have been arrested after clashes with police last night outside a hotel in merseyside, north west england, which houses asylu...

Our capacity to find this stuff? the first balloon, by the time its identified and our capacity to do anything about it was more limited because of the decision that we did not want to risk any soil in the united states. we simply had to wait a while. it could be that entities are testing our system. i know theres been a lot of activity about unidentified things. it is also likely that we know about this second device and the decision to shoot it down came so quickly because of the lessons learn...

And analyse the wreckage of the object. he thanked north american aerospace defence command for keeping the watch over north america. it comes a day after us military shot down an object over alaska, and a week after the shooting down of a chinese observation 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 obj...

Attached to it. but at this point, we are really going to be waiting for the debris from this object to be recovered by, by u.s. northern command, by norad, by the alaska national guard, as well as the fbi, to kind of take a look at this, and examine it, and try to figure out, was this something that was owned by a nation state, was this something that was privately owned? was it a drone? was it another kind of smaller-sized balloon? we are told by the pentagon that it is a different shape and s...

Recover the debris. the biden administration came under a great deal of political criticism, particularly from republicans in congress and elsewhere, for not dealing with that last balloon more quickly. and i think its no surprise that when they found an opportunity to take a shot at whatever this was over alaskan waters, they did so, presumably one consideration being that this was to avoid the potential circus of yet another foreign object transiting the continental united states for days or w...

Carolina week ago today. in fact drones to fly up to 40 or 60000 feet. we have been told this is not likely an airplane it is more likely a smaller balloon. >> that first one was mighty big and was spotted. maybe somebody decided to downsize. lets hope we get to the bottom of it. lucas tomlinson live at the white house, lucas thanks. president biden has been saying he is planning to run for reelection. but ahead of his official announcement recent polling suggests many americans are unhappy abou...