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The united states. we have also seen a defence project to look at unidentified aerial phenomenon have increased over the past 19 years, and looking back at them and investigating them, they have determined that a lot of them were probably balloons, so as part of recent efforts to find them and be able to give tech to the more effectively, the us has apparently been resetting radar parameters so they are better at detecting objects of the low radar returns and high altitude, particularly low velo...

Returns and its also people like radar operators and air traffic controllers so i think the discussion should be broader than that. people are focusing just on two videos coming from a set of f-18s. >> recently in october astronomers said they spotted their first interstellar asteroid from beyond the solar system. what do you see when you look at that? >> well, you know, i have to admit to you when i ran this program, i was looking at two things. what is it and how does it work? we have delibera...

The area. >> thank you so much for weighing in, former british senior military office, michael kay. right now, well turn to ron mott. monitoring the situation from london. ron, what have you learned? >> good morning, again, dara. well, im looking at the flight returns, the radar returns and it would indicate to me as a pilot that before this plane lost its radar signal that there was some oscillating of the aircraft where it was doing one of these up in the air at flight level 27, up to flight...

In the northern region of sinai. what we can tell you, there were 217 passengers, 17 of those children along with seven crew members. and what might be interesting if the black boxes, when they are recovered, if the pilot did in fact transmit some sort of trouble in flight, what specifically was that trouble? i have been looking over the radar returns here from flight data -- flight radar 24, one of online websites that you can follow and track flights in realtime. and this plane seemed to be at...

Of bad weather that a pilot would have gotten in advance or maybe he wouldnt have taken off if he had gotten that information. >> its a problem -- reuters is saying this airasia plane made what was described as an unbelievably steep climb before it crashed. what does that say to you? >> well first of all, you have to put it into context. we dont know where the radar was located, what kind of radar it was. when we remember flight 370, there were numerous reports that proved not to be completely a...

Clear on exactly what kind of a plane it is? >> no, its a return on your radar. >> right. >> it will be a certain size, you can estimate the size of the aircraft. you may have other sensors that tell you what it is. but, you know, once youre getting radar returns and you engage the weapon, it just follows the radar path right up to the aircraft. >> so bob baers earlier point that this is all trackable, that we will soon know where this missile, if that, in fact, is what it was was fired from, do...

Be coming from. but as we already pointed out, it doesnt mean there really was crime. >> and thats exactly what they do. they go through different scenarios. mary schiavo, you want to discuss more of this -- this flight path of avoiding indonesian airspace? what can this tell us if they were in fact doing that? >> well, again, its the same information that we had on day one, but now someones put a different explanation on it. and the explanation helps fill in some of the holes, but like we have ...

Explained. the second thing that starts happening, the families going through the torture, only to be tormented by misinformation, inconsistent information, the way the government can solve that problem is to be totally transparent. invite officials from other government, make sure that independence is open to the investigation so that you cant question whether or not its being influenced by those having an interest. the easiest way is to invite the united states government, let independent peop...

We saw martin savidge navigating and going around and doing everything trying to get down, frantically trying to reduce altitude. it is an aggressive maneuver. what we saw on the radar returns was two-minute turn and remaining on heading for over an hour. >> go ahead. >> we need to try to zero in on the things that we can defend. and once you get the transponder an the acars turned off, now the airplane is free, except for that skin paint that the military radar can look at and the military rada...

Australia, but, you know, thats based on primary radar returns which are kind of sketchy and in marsat, satellite return from a turned off communications device called the acars on the aircraft which is not designed to track an aircraft. we have sketchy information to identify this location. >> and you make a good point. another reminder to our viewers, though, most of the assets are now focused in the southern indian ocean marks lay shan authorities made a point saying the corridor search area ...