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Emily harding is deputy director and senior fellow of the international security programme at the centre for strategic and international studies. she told me we have to keep an open mind about the flying objects. its important to separate what we know and will know a little bit about. but we know definitively about the south carolina that it was large, high altitude and was carrying a payload and had significant intelligence correction capabilities but for the other objects we know about the bil...

Deal with this present and future. >> and white house allies are raising concerns. >> in the absence of information, people will fill that gap. >> reporter: a new task force with an underscoring of the u.s. approach. >> were recognizing these with extra vigilance and see them in different ways. and president biden has made the decision that were not going to allow those over u.s. territory. >> reporter: with fighters on three separate occasions, using a missile to take down objects over alaskan ...

Told the ukrainians that we are not sending the missile because we want to make sure we have enough in our own stocks to make sure we can defend ourselves in the case of other constituencies. so what happens here is that as they go through the process to put together each new package of aid they have to weigh these capabilities against many different factors, and one of the most important factors is u.s. militarys own readiness. so in case theres a contingency that comes up and were forced to de...

>> in the absence of information, people will fill that gap. >> but a new cabinet level task force, underscoring a rapid evolution in the u.s. approach. >> we are actually looking for these with extra vigilance. were starting to see them in different ways, and president biden has now made the decision that we are going to not allow those over u.s. territory. >> with u.s. fighters on three separate locations using a single missile to take down objects over alaskan airspace, over canadas yukon on ...

Which the u.s. has been unable to access because of weather conditions. now, he emphasized there could be completely benign and explainable reasons for why these objects are flying up in the air, such as for research purposes from corporate entities or academic institutions. he also explained why were hearing more about these objects. >> one of the reasons that we think were seeing more is because were looking for more. they have modified the filters and the gains as we call it of the radar capa...

Business national defense, weve had to sometimes be less forthcoming with information in open forums than many would hope. we do not want potential adversaries to know exactly what were able to see or understand or how we come to the conclusions we make. >> laura: is it that or is it the government hiding the truth? well, good people of sound judgment are asking these questions. maybe these objects are all developed by china or perhaps russia to test our responses and capabilities. and, if so, y...

?e of our >> given the nature of nationa our business, national defense ,weve had to sometimesmation be less forthcoming with information in open forums than many would hope. we do not want potentialaries to adversaries to know exactly what were able to see ow rexacl understand. were able to seor how we come e conclusions we make. th is it that or is it the government hiding the truth? well, good people of sounde judgment are asking these question s. maybe these objects are allaps developed by c...

Of the filters on an internet search. suddenly you start getting objects that may have been there the entire time that you just didnt see. with some of these objects, they were flying at an altitude that was pretty normal to see civilian aircraft. also, they were flying slowly, which is not usually what some of our surveillance capabilities look for. once they knew what signatures to look for, they opened the apertures and theyve seen a lot more. i think the big question now is what the rules of...

Something. >> we assessed whether they posed any kinetic threat to people on the ground. they did not. we assessed whether they were sending any communication signals. we detected none. we looked to see whether they were maneuvering or had any row pull shop capabilities. we saw no signs of that. >> reporter: here is what we know so far about the objects in the sky. according to u.s. officials, the object shot down ten miles off the coast of alaska on friday was a metallic object that broke up in...

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