david is with us. the highlight of the president s announcement, three objects shot down since friday not tied to any enemy nations but private companies, bringing up the possibility that the administration may have over reacted after the chinese spy balloon in february. i gave the order to take down these three objects due to commercial air traffic and because we could not rule out the surveillance risk of sensitive facilities. white house officials and all the way to the president insist there will be changes in the works. whatever you want to call them, he said he ll share with congress the policy parameters when they re done but that ll remain classified so we don t give a quote, road map to our enemies to evade our defenses going forward. i expect to be speaking with president xi and i hope we ll get to the bottom of them. i make no apologies for taking down that balloon. you can see right here this exchange when a reporter asked him about chinese business
saying, these are not provocative missions but they are getting you fully close, when have you to send up u.s. fighter toss barn them off, what do you make of this? yeah, you know, this is a continuation of what s been going on in recent past, last october there were i think there were four of these kind of incursions in august of last year, there was another three. basically what they do, they get close to our air space, they don t penetrate it. because we have to be vigilant, we have to get aircraft up anytime close to where we have air space. similar to what the chinese are doing, we went to see what your reactions are, how close can we get before we vector. we get to test our systems out, it s in some ways it can help us as well. yeah i think there is a lot of testing going on. a lot of
to say. if you do find something of significance, what will you do? do you go back? absolutely. yeah. okay. the process we go through is everybody on board the aircraft will hear the mark, mark, mark call up from the flight section and it will drop a flare which emits smoke importafor 45 minut. at same time, we use the aircraft system that will drop a gps point. we attempt to maintain visual contact with that object that was being seen and reposition the aircraft to get photographs of it. once we got photographs of the object, we send them off for analysis. if there is a vessel in the area, we vector them on to retain the object and analyze it from there. that is the basic process. have you gone through so long