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The united states early on in the biden administration. and with that happened the u.s. -- when that happened the u.s. was able to detect particular signals emanating from that balloon. when they did that, they said i wonder if these signals have popped up anywhere before. and so when they did that, when they put these signals kind of through the u.s. intelligence communitys holdings and cross checked it with other data, they were able to detect those signals and, therefore, those spy balloons t...

Folks here. sorry. some new folks back here, and then we will go over here to mike. >> you mentioned that the object was spotted yesterday, is that the first night we saw it? or do we see it coming in a couple of days before? >> no, it was spotted yesterday. >> and for follow-up, what we have learned about the first balloon last week, did that help us detect this object? >> i would say that again, we detect it -- when we detect objects, let me just back up, so what you are asking is did what we ...

They said it posed legitimate threat civil down. there are fly the route do you think that was cover for why they other one? >> absolutely. i acting much more rapidly than did before. to somt even know. what it was. kind of clear the air. they were a little bit embarrassed what common package on the last balloon as came from china. listen to what he said. kellogg

Objects on its own merits, it entered into u.s. airspace on february 9th. we sent help aircraft to assess what it was, the decision was made that it posed a reasonable to civilian air traffic, the president gave the order to take it down and we took it down. thank you. laura, then i will go to dan. >> sorry, thanks for taking my question. so a couple of questions, first of all, has anything like this happened before with an object to this size, this shape, in this particular height, the 40,000-f...

Are a lot of activities that we can continue to monitor to include this balloon program, and weve learned a lot over the last couple of years. >> the classified version has balloons in it. >> i would have to go back and look. i dont have the answer to that. thanks, let me get a couple of other folks here. mike. >> reporter: the only reason the american people know about the first balloon is a couple of guys in montana spotted it, and it leaked out. my question is if it had remained secret and no...

I like to follow-up what your prior person said a few minutes ago. when you look at china, china sees itself as the middle kingdom, they see themselves as the center of the universe and certainly they are trying to use every way, especially the military, to go back to where they were many years ago and saw themselves as the middle kingdom. i think this describes a lot of actions were seeing from the chinese trying to go back to concept of the middle kingdom. >> neil: when you have your intellige...

Ownership of the balloon. will you send the balloon back to china? >> there are no plans to send the debris we are recovering back to china. we are going to pull it up off the bottom of the ocean and learn more about this capability. >> iran is building a drone factory in russia and they are receiving drones from russia. how do you view cooperation between north korea, iran and russia. >> i cant confirm those specific reports, but i was up here not long ago talking about the burgeoning defense r...

Northeast of alaska obviously it was about to leave the landmass of the united states, we probably knew about this track since last night it is a mystery to me why we dont know what the point of origin is or the relationship until that is. and it is likely we dont know at this point or they are not telling us whether we suspect it came from another country. is this a commercial, corporate, or private enterprise that we are dealing with. they are also not telling us about the options that they lo...

Original one down last week. initially they were worried about the debris field that would be expansive over miles. smaller balloon, smaller debris field on the ground. also they shot it down over water, frozen water now. that would also mean there would potentially be less likelihood of civilian casualties or injuries or infrastructure damage down below. i suspect those were three of the reasons this was taken down much faster. another thing i was interested in, and i dont have the answer to th...

It down. in terms of the other balloon, as i have mentioned in our previous briefing, we have learned a lot about the chinese surveillance high-altitude balloon program. we gathered a lot of information over the last couple of years, and so we were able to based on that information detected a very early stage as it approached u.s. airspace we had a good understanding of what it was as he mentioned we were able to monitor that closely, track it when i went over the continental united states and l...