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What could these balloons possibly do. as a cia director you want many views, many possibility, you want sound, you want imagery, you want all of those things. and a low flying balloon over our military installations is a significant, not an insignificant event in the united states of america. >> ainsley: what are they planning? >> brian: keep in mind, china not only isn't apologetic they said yesterday that america abuse force and overhe is indicate lated used these throat illegally sanction chinese companies. china will pose -- impose counter measures which i think they are doing. >> ainsley...

0 out because it was jammed. are we to believe that this didn't get any communications out back to beijing because it was effectively jammed all the way through by either the intelligence agencies or the military? >> yeah, well, dealing with the first thing, it's obvious, i think, given the action we took against these three unidentified objects, we did not act accordingly when air space was about to be violated by the spy balloon in alaska, did not shoot it down, that reacted in i think what may be an overreaction to the others. he has to be absolutely clear what we are going to do about it. ...

Msat, another balloon maker on the blacklist. in this 2017 state media report on m-sat, the anchor touts that they can carry a large number of detectors for surveillance oreck sans for civilian and military use. cnn has reached out to all 6 entities for comment but noun have responded. thinking balloon program is not just for surveillance, but also for strike and the potential for dropping warheads, including hypersonic glide vehicles from high altitudes. >> reporter: this week beijing has made accusations of its own, saying the u.s. has illegally flown balloons over chinese airspace more than...

In fact, these objects are benign. >> amid reports the u.s. is considering the possibility china didn't intend to penetrate the american heartland with its surveillance equipment with wind in part possibly driving the balloon along an errant path. u.s. officials are sharing a fuller picture, confirming to fox it's unclear whether the chinese intentionally sent the balloon into alaska, then canada, then into the continental u.s. with wind possibly playing a factor. but, also pointing out the balloon did fly toward guam, which is u.s. territory and later in montana it loitered over several sensi...

Threat to anyone on the ground. they do, however, present a risk to civil aviation and potentially an intelligence collection threat. >> the white house says the objects were not sending signals, were drifting and not propelled, but one was flying at about 20,000 feet over sensitive military sites according to the pentagon. >> in light of the chinese balloon program and the recent incursion into our airspace, the united states and canada through norad have been more closely scrutinizing that airspace including enhancing our radar capabilities. >> all three objects about the side of a small car...