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The surveillance balloon. recovery teams have mapped the debris field and are in the process of searching for and identifying debris on the ocean floor. debris thats been recovered so far is being loaded on to vessels, taken ashore, cataloged and then moved on wards to labs for subsequent analysis. and why i wont go into specifics due to classification reasons, i can say that we have located a significant amount of debris so far that will improve helpful to our further understanding of this ball...

Out. i suppose this is an area where our intelligence community is working diligently to find out who has these capabilities that may be putting balloons up and circling the globe, traversing the united states, you name it. >> earlier on the show republican congressman from florida said it should be u.s. policy to shoot down any aircraft that enters u.s. airspace. i asked is that regardless of whether the aircraft is manned or unmanned? i want you to listen to his response. >> i do think so. if ...

Capability. and could slow down, speed up, and that it was on a path to transit over sensitive military sites. >> thank you. >> thanks. admiral kirby, on the latest object, you said it did not appear to have the maneuverability, capabilities that the chinese spy balloon had. did it have any maneuverability or was it flying on its own? >> at this time, all i can tell you is that it did not appear to have the ability to independently maneuver. well attempt recovery and well see what we can learn m...

Ownership of the balloon. will you send the balloon back to china? >> there are no plans to send the debris we are recovering back to china. we are going to pull it up off the bottom of the ocean and learn more about this capability. >> iran is building a drone factory in russia and they are receiving drones from russia. how do you view cooperation between north korea, iran and russia. >> i cant confirm those specific reports, but i was up here not long ago talking about the burgeoning defense r...

To provide at this time. >> reporter: other countries have indicated they have seen balloons in their territories. sharing information from the pentagon to these countries, are the capabilities who how you shot them down? >> the state department has talked to this in terms of our international outreach. the department of defense plays a role in those relationships. we will continue to work with our allies and partners to share information along with our state department colleagues. let me go to ...

I could right now. what were doing is what i put in my opening statements. there are naval assets in the mediterranean, and under the command of u.s. naval forces europe, the commander of u.s./european command designated europe as in charge of the operational coordination for military assets. and hes doing that. i cannot speak to any specific contributions by the aircraft carrier uss george h.w. bush. but there is lots of -- there is lots of capabilities in the mediterranean region that could be...

First, a really quick follow-up on tonys question. at this point is the pentagon reassessing the need for counterballoon or counterobject capabilities at that altitude at this time? >> what i would tell you is not -- in the air force sometimes we talk about dont get platform specific. so what were talking about is monitoring the domain and having domain awareness. as i highlighted a couple of days ago, probably last week, were continuing to learn more and more about this program which allows us ...

Airborne object off the northern coast of alaska at 1:45 p.m. eastern standard time today within u.s. sovereign airspace over u.s. territorial water. on february 9, north american aerospace command detected an object on ground radar and further investigated and identified the object using fighter aircraft. the object was flying at an altitude of 40,000 feet and posed a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight. u.s. northern command is beginning recovery operations now. u.s. northern co...

Probably had no idea how little we are able to ascertain in realtime when it comes to any sort of reconnaissance aircraft or balloon or whatever that enters our airspace. i mean this one entered our airspace and the government, the biden administration says they still dont know where it came from. obviously there was all that retro inspection that found balloons that happened during the trump years, but they found it during the biden years. part of the pentagon is the national reconnaissance off...

Essentially fall on ice. there was no serious threat of collateral damage because of how small this was according to officials weve spoken with. >> oren, has the military collected any debris from this object yet? and what happens next? >> not yet as far as we know. they have deployed helicopters as well as a c-130 hercules. this is a few miles off the coast so it may be difficult to find and its also worth remembering that up at these latitudes, there is much less sunlight. there isnt a full da...