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Information about things in the continental u.s. so theyve been tracking this for several days, but one of the differences here, this is not unprecedented. the chinese have had surveillance balloons like this, and in fact, theyve even come close and gone into the continental u.s. the difference here is this one straight into the u.s. and it stayed. it hovered. in the past theyve maybe come in and then left quickly. officials here at the pentagon became so concerned that on wednesday secretary of...

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Test of course, they were not i would think if this was civilian or appeared to be a civilian or meteorological balloon, that the state department would be less likely to have cancelled such an important trip. >> kim, the pentagon says that this is a surveillance balloon and maneuverable its a foreign government military asset floating above the u.s. violating the law unencumbered. there are chinese satellites that can pick up information why is the flay grantsy the point of this balloon. >> wel...

Cases, these ariel surveillance assets will come near the u.s. or maybe go into the u.s. for a short time, then they leave again. this one flew, as you could see from the map, from the aleutian islands, through canada to montana. its been there several days, which has officials concerned about it. you mentioned it is in montana. thats not too far from the air force base where the u.s. has intercontinental missiles. it is one of the strategic ballistic missile sites in the united states. now, as ...

Counteroffensive. much as been discussed, not least ukraines potential membership of the european union. washington has accused beijing of acting irresponsibly after a chinese surveillance balloon was detected over the united states. the us secretary of state, antony blinken, has postponed a much—anticipated trip to beijing over the incident. china says the balloon is a "civilian airship" — which had deviated from its planned route. however, us defence officials argue the balloon, seen above...

Continental united states. we continue to track and monday ton the balloon closely. were confident its a chinese surveillance balloon. when we detected balloon, we acted immediately to protect against the collection of sensitive information. members of my team consulted with our partners and other agencies and congress. we also engaged our allies to inform them of the presence of balloon in our air space. we concluded conditions were not conducive for a constructive visit at this time. in my cal...

Past and how long do you anticipate it could? >> sure. so as i mentioned, well continue to monitor it, we assess it will probably be over the united states for a few days. but well continue to monitor and review our options and update you as we can. thank you. >> nancy here. >> general, i want to go back to a couple things you said, you said the u.s. is reviewing options, id like to, is the option of shooting down the balloon particularly as it is going over more populated areas off the table? i...

South korea. thank you. >> thank you very much, two questions on the chinese baknow loo. so there is statement that balloon flew over japanese airspace before reaching the u.s. continental u.s., can you confirm that? >> ive seen those press reports, we acknowledged in our statement that we posted last night, we have seen this type of balloon activity elsewhere before, but again, im not going to get into intelligence and ill not have further information to provide. >> how will this incident affec...

But beyond that, im not going to be able to go into more specifics. mike? >> thanks, pat. yesterday senior defense official said that the intelligence gathering capability of this balloon would be no better than any chinese satellite in low earth orbit. if thats the case why would beijing go through the trouble and expense to send this balloon on such a journey? >> i would have to refer you back to the prc on that. >> any opinion why? >> were monitoring this, as i mentioned. its violated u.s. ai...

Civilian targets throughout ukraine, so working with them in those areas, but also, through those -- through the combined arms training, enabling them to change the equation on the front lines, not only defend their territory but take back sovereign territory. thank you. >> youve been listening to brigadier general pat rider. new information about a giant spy drama in the sky. a chinese balloon over the central apart continental united states, it was over a key air force base in montana yesterda...