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Look at it. they now decide that this balloon obviously, they have already described that to us. they know it does not have propellers to change direction like the prc balloon. they know about the payload that is on this. and i think that thats how they can tell that this is not a spy balloon because of the size of the payload and what is inside of it, it is mystifying to me why distill an object and we have not defined to the object given all that they have told us about the object, but not hav...

But were anticipating that. and frankly so are the ukrainians. and thats one of the reasons why youve seen in just recent weeks the kinds of security assistance packages that -- from the united states and from others that are more advanced capabilities, the kinds of capabilities that will allow them to fight in open terrain, combined arms capabilities, armored capabilities, artillery, all of that is designed to help them prepare for whatever the russians might be planning in the spring. all that...

The White House noted the literal UFO was about 40,000 feet above Alaskan waters and claimed it posed a "reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight."

Larry Mayer is a longtime photographer for the Billings Gazette and Chase Doak is a former Gazette photographer.

Temperatures are minus 20 degrees fahrenheit, john. >> john: lucas, how was this craft, only calling it an object at this point, different from the balloon that was shot down last week and off the coast of south carolina? >> thats right, john. so far the pentagon has refused to release any imagery of this object first spotted last night. general ryder traveling in northeast direction. ryder described how norad tracked this. f 35 stealth fighter jets tracked this object. >> i dont want to get int...

The pentagon described in great terms how much intelligence they gained from the previous balloon. in this case the pentagon simply said every decision on every different object will be decided on an individual basis. in this case possibly because of the threat to civilian aircraft, the decision was made to shoot this one down. right at the endi we got into te question of the authorities to carry out something like this. the north com commander would generally have the authority to call a fighte...

Pilots that they are very capable in terms of looking at on object, assessing whether or not this had the potential to be manned at that altitude, something that small, very, very unlikely that it was manned. again, we dont know the point of origin of this object. >> john: completely different from the last balloon. said to be the size of a small car. not a regional airliner. what are you wondering about? >> well, you have to wonder about the politics of this, which is the administration took a ...

Get at the root causes of all of the migration in this hemisphere. >> thank you. when i hear news, i just get very excited. so, can we just go back for a moment, so, another aircraft of some sort, airship, balloon, something was shot down today. who owns it? what were the circumstances? was the president directly involved in ordering this? and is wreckage being recovered? >> im going to try, remind me if i forget something. yes, the president absolutely was involved in this decision. he ordered ...

I think there was reports that were blalloons during the trump administration and we never heard about those so it was interesting that the biden administration had to say something about this balloon because americans could see it from the ground. to this point as well he knew this was an easy spot for republicans to criticize him on. even though this balloon appears to be much smaller, i think that he definitely wanted to shoot it down sooner rather than later because a lot of republicans were...

Participation in tracking the prc high altitude surveillance balloon. during the meeting both leaders reaffirmed the close defense relationship between the united states and canada and a readout will be available later today on defense.gov. with that i will take your questions. >> hi. thank you for doing this. a couple of questions on this latest shootdown. first, what type of u.s. fighter aircraft were used, and what type of munition did they fire? do you already have navy assets or coast guard...