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>> and one last one. you said that the other objects shot down were not able to transmit or were not transmitting signals. they did not have any option. did the china balloon, did that have any -- was it emitting signals back? >> im not going to go into more detail about the capabilities of that. we are going to be studying it and analyzing it. there is no question in our minds that that system was designed to surveil, that that was an intelligence asset. ill leave it there. >> has there been ou...

Us and so perhaps, perhaps a halfway house between capabilities to be up for the satellite to collect signals and intelligence but stopping short of full tests of the air defences and military aircraft, you fly balloons around and they have areas where you can hoover up what they might be transmitting or importantly but they might not be transmitting and are you looking to see if there are some gaps that you can exploit is the radar coverage in such areas needs to be future air corridors that yo...

With what we is doing. >> that concerns me. well have few are ships in 5 years. we will have few are capabilities in space, than we had, not just the absolute magnitude but you get it right, president biden has gotten it wrong, he is talking about shrinking scale of the defense department, and told a group of hold soldiers well have every military vehicle green. that is disconnected from protecting and spreferring opreserving our nation. you can read about it, there not a chance that chinese mil...

Wednesday over at the office of direct tofr of national intelligence. >> phil mattingly at the white house, thanks so much. were getting brand new information including the object flew through u.s. sensitive sites. kylie atwood joining us now. what else does the memo say? >> this was a memo sent to lawmakers today. what it is saying according to the pentagon is the object that wu downed over canada was a small metallic balloon that had a payload beneath it. that was the object that is said to ...

2021, some of which have demonstrated unusual flight characteristics or performance capabilities. can you say why the president just recently within the last couple of weeks started ordering some of these objects to be shot down, and why there werent orders throughout 2021 or throughout 2022? >> its very simple. it comes down to what sort of safety and security threats and risks were talking about. and also it comes down a lot to our ability to track, detect and engage. having come from the pent...

There is no indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity with these recent take—downs. but the growing alarm has taken its toll, including on us—china relations. in beijing, the foreign ministry has denied sending spy balloons and is claiming its seen more than ten american balloons over its territory. and here in the uk, there are now plans to see if any were seen here. i wouldnt comment in detail in security matters, but people should be reassured that we have all the capabilities in ...

Their ability to collect intelligence. a general of the arrogant to inch in everyone in the room, said you should go ask china about that. they get it and recover it, and have no choice to admit it had capabilities of monitoring our personal cell phones and they were not able to jam it, tell , telling me, they it was able to gather whenever information they were looking for. >> pentagon said they are not ruling out extraterrestrials. >> if this was an alien situation, why are they only the u.s. ...

Michigans upper peninsula at only about 20,000 feet, far lower than other recent objects brought down. no early indication of surveillance capabilities on this object, but officials not ruling it out. the wreckage not yet recovered. this operation the third like it in three days, a clear sign the u.s. government is dramatically ramping up how it polices the skies. a week after that chinese spy balloon was taken down and put the white house on high alert. one senior administration official tellin...

Address it himself and squash us who are naysayers on his apil ability t to do his job. i dont see how that isnt a good play. i dont have faith it will happen. i dont know if his team has faith in him to do it. >> we played some sound out of order, but we want to listen to what some republican lawmakers said on this. >> were not prepared for this we have got to say the b team is -- we dont have a team on the field that should alarm americans. >> we dont have adequate rated ar systems. >> they wa...