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A large high-altitude balloon from China floated across multiple U.S. states over multiple days, alarming government officials and Americans who watched it.

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Us about the first? one of the things we can tell is the type of balloon it is. this type of balloon, a latex balloon, is a standard weather balloon that weather services around the world use. its kind of tan, its made out of latex rubber. a research balloon going longer distances with larger payloads, these are about 60 feet in diameter stressed out, but is made out of thin film poly. and this is what were seeing the pictures of this balloon from china. so it looks like it isnt being floated on...

About 110 miles per hour. its obviously not moving that fast. >> pretty good clip from wednesday to today, though. >> exactly. it would be really interesting when this is all done if the military or government puts together a really complete map theyre willing to share of exactly where it did go. there were sort of jogs in the path here and there that seemed either like the wind changed direction or something on board was used to steer it. >> that was a fabulous breakdown. thank you so much, tom...

Than 12 miles off the coast of the united states and had been shot down, it would have been shot down in international air space. that could have caused maybe even a bigger incident as jennifer just alluded to, tensions with china running hot, probably an all-time high between both countries. so that is one very important detail. something we just learned from that statement from the defense secretary, lloyd austin, and that the balloon was shot down right off the coast of south carolina. we hea...

The atlantic. so hats off to the men and women for a successful mission in taking this thing out. mike: to be fair to the administration, obviously they were not going to take out the balloon over a populated area along the east coast, right? so once it got there, it really needed to wait until it got out into the ocean, correct? >> i think so but, again, this was at least spotted by local press in montana, and, you know, thats big sky country. i mean, there are a lot of open spaces up there, so...

But absolutely china. this is a wake-up call for the united states. arthel: so then vladimir putin is watching this as we know he is, what is his takeaway? and is it possible that invest e part of china to raise the skirt of the united states and signal to putin how far he can go in terms of ukraine and just in terms of timing of it all? >> well, the timing is very interesting. lets go all the way back to august 30th of 2021, that debacle of a u.s. withdrawal out of afghanistan. what did that sh...

The United States could bring down the Chinese surveillance balloon currently flying eastward across the country by shooting ...

Down. of course, the question tonight is, where is that exactly and when will it come down? by the way, how will it come down? the a spy balloon. the pentagon refusing to say whether they are considering shooting it down what looks like a chinese spy balloon floating high above some sensitive sites in this country. but officials telling cnn they havent ruled it out either. meanwhile, this balloon, which is the size, by the way, of three school buses, is just meandering along thousands of feet up...

Which is a refill plane. there have been planes trying to track it down in southeast missouri. >> when you took these photos, how far was the balloon from -- do you have a sense of what altitude the balloon was at? >> well, of course you know being an photographer of planes and everything, you know, it was much higher than your standard airplanes. it had to be a good 50, 60,000 feet. even for the size of it, you could still barely make it out to the naked eye. >> at one point i think the militar...