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>> in terms of the shape, i dont know. i have not seen imagery of it. im telling you the verbal characteristics as it was described to me. in terms of the difference in the recovery effort, again, so this literally was, what, an hour and a half, two hours ago. thats underway right now, so more to follow on that front. right now i think theyre moving to the site. well have more to follow in the days ahead. let me go to a few other folks here. new folks back here. and well go over here to mike. >>...

That raises new questions whether the president was so right to wait so long before taking out the previous balloon. we have got fox team coverage for you tonight. lucas tomlinson in the bureau. additional details from todays pentagon briefing. we begin with white house correspondent jacqui heinrich live on the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. >> good evening, john. only hours ago the biggest news out of the white house today would have been the announcement that the president will visit poland...

>> certainly cant confirm these reports about president xis personal knowledge of that. i would refer you to the prc to speak to their own leadership issues and information sharing. what matters to us is that this was a violation of our sovereign air space. and clearly with intent. now, whose intent? i dont think we have a perfect picture of that right now. clearly without question the intent of the prc. because we know that this balloon belonged to them. and president biden acted decisively in ...

Not saying this is a sign of who was behind this object, but remember the balloon last week flew down over the aleutians, its very plausible this was on a similar track to the one that we just saw last week. another question that well be asking. another big difference here, the balloon from last week, we were told the u.s. was tracking it prior to this. >> the pentagon briefing is about to begin. were going to listen in and hear anything more on these answers. >> first of all, to add to informat...

Whether it was a balloon or a drone and they dont know what country it came from. they dont know whether who owned it, whether it was a nation, corporation or individual. they dont know what its purpose was and they dont know whether it posed any security threat. so why did they move so swiftly to shoot it down? it is worth noting there has been a huge amount of criticism in washington about how long it took to shoot down the chinese balloon that was floating across the country last week. securi...

Ive said it before, probably tired of hearing me say it, but these are all sovereign decisions. and if a nato nation or even a non-nato nation wants to provide capabilities like fighter aircraft to ukraine, thats certainly their decision to make. and one would assume that if youre going to introduce a system into a military, that they have no experience with, that there is going to have to be some training that goes along with that. were doing it right now. fort sill, oklahoma, we have ukrainian...

On february 9, north american aerospace defense command detected an object on ground radar and further investigated and identified the object using fighter aircraft. the object was flying at an altitude of 40,000 feet and posed a reasonable threat to the safety of the civilian flight. u.s. northern command is beginning recovery operations now. u.s. northern commands alaska command coordinated the operation with assistance from the alaska air national guard, federal aviation administration and th...

Very northeastern part of alaska, right near the alaska/canada border. >> near the arctic ocean? >> yeah, in fact thats where it went down on that -- on that northern side of alaska near the canadian border on water that is frozen in the -- yes -- >> over land? >> no, it was. it was. >> okay. and it was shot down within the last hour. when did you -- when did the first -- when did the u.s. first get intelligence that it existed? >> the knowledge about the balloon and the track first came to our ...

Thank you. tony. >> couple of things. you mentioned you recovered a significant -- or located a significant amount of debris. is it fair to say youve located a significant amounting of the payload? >> youre talking about the high-altitude balloon. >> the one today. >> at this point im not able to go into more detail other than what i would describe weve discovered or located a significant amount of the debris associated with the balloon. again, well have more details to follow. >> located, but y...

Essentially this is lessons learned and a new tracking way? >> reporter: in a way. so this balloon went over the u.s. territory in kind of the first year of the biden administration. and at that point they realized, wow, we dont really have a consistent way of tracking these balloons. and so at that point what they were able to do is they were able to collect snaignals from that balloon and put them through the intelligence communitys holdings essentially and see where they had popped up in the ...