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Space flies so they were viewed as a hazard to civil aviation and for that reason were taken down. there are recovery efforts in all three cases but crucially the objects have not yet been discovered so we havent gotten a better description of what it is the pentagon is looking at or what the additional concerns may be. adding to the confusion, weve heard from a few u.s. officials including jake sullivan describing these as balloons but the pentagon wont quite go that far in saying that these ar...

Balloon last week. now, theres a growing call for transparency from the white house and the pentagon. in a moment, were going to be speaking with admiral john kirby. first, we get the details from nbc white house correspondent monica alba. >> reporter: the u.s. military shooting down another high altitude, unidentified object. this time, over lake huron. the pentagon saying in a statement, the object flew in proximity to dod sites and was deemed a threat due to surveillance capabilities. the faa...

That there are sometimes things floating at high altitudes for various purposes. scientific research, weather balloons, all manner of innocuous craft can be aloft at high altitudes. i dont think thats necessarily unusual here. its difficult for me to say exactly what you can expect going forward. one of the reasons that we think were seeing more is because were looking for more. as you heard general van hurt mention last night, they have modified the filters and the gains as we call it of the ra...

Is doing, some of the big concern there was that a lot -- many of those reports were happening around our training ranges, were happening around air training ranges. so combat pilots were seeing these things. and it was -- there was a potential impact to the safety of our pilots. but you may not have but a fleeting moment on some of these things to see it. and so, its different. in these cases, we had time to detect, time to analyze, time to engage, time to make those kinds of decisions. but it ...

Is it shows a degree of risk on the part of china that they would fly these so close across us territory and its a risky venture in their answers have been very lacking. do you think politically, it signifies that they are thinking of taking more bold action theres been a lot of concern around taiwan and what is a telus? that they are doing this evenif a telus? that they are doing this even if there is one spy balloon? they have the capabilities, their satellite technologies that they could use ...

Brianna. we heard from john kirby very clearly that the three objects taken down friday, saturday and sunday are very different from the chinese balloon that was taken down. the chinese spy balloon was traveling at about 60,000 feet elevation, these three were flying -- two at 40,000 feet, one at 20,000 feet, meaning all three posed a threat to civilian aircraft. the chien niez spy balloon is something the biden administration, u.s. intelligence officials were tracking before it came into u.s. a...

Different because we knew precisely where that was. as we have said, we do not assess these most recent objects posed any direct threat to people on the ground and we are laser focused on confirming their nature and purpose, including through intensive efforts to collect debris in remote locations where they have fallen. in each instance, we have followed the same basic course. we assessed whether they posed any kinetic threat to people on the ground. they did not. we assessed whether they were ...

Now detecting more unknown objects in the sky. >> 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 of the radar capabilities to look more discreetly at high altitude, small radar cross >> reporter: no wreckage from .- those three latest objects has yet been retrieved, so the u.s. still does not know exactly where they came from or for what purpose. but the white house putting one question to re...

Hello, this is bbc news. the headlines — after the us military shoots down a fourth unidentified flying object over north america — the nato chief urges countries to remain vigilant eight think what we saw over the united states, last week as pa rt of a pattern where china, but also russia are increasing their intelligence and surveillance activities against nato allies. s will comment detail on this but people should be reassured that we have capabilities place to keep the country safe incl...

In concert with u.s. coast guard but theyre also involved in trying to locate the degree. there was good communication with our canadian allies. >> a foreign government taking a special interest in this object from yesterday? reacting in an unusual way? >> no. >> thanks, john. two questions. one, you mentioned early on that the the china balloon might have been giving limited additive capabilities. i assume youre meaning onto their satellite surveillance. can you specify what exactly its getting...