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hello everyone. i am alicia menendez. a new hour of american voices, and we begin with breaking news. just hours ago, a third on and fight object was shot down over north america. canadian prime minister justin trudeau tweeted that norad successfully downed the using a u.s. f-22 fighter jet. the prime minister also announced the canadian and u.s. forces will work together to recover and analyze the objects wreckage. short time ago, the pentagon issued a statement saying that president biden spoke with prime minister trudeau, authorizing u.s. fighter jets to work with canada to bring down the kroft. the statement also reveals that the u.s. detected the object over alaska late friday night, and continued to monitor it as it crossed canadian airspace. now, at any moment, we expect an update from canadian authorities about the situation. joining me until we get that visual out, nbc s dan de luce live in washington. dan, i ask you to flag us, as you had new reporting, roll ....
Looked it was in airspace altitude, 40,000 feet high. so, there is a very quick defense oriented reaction to that. and regardless of the diplomatic repercussions, which there were none, clearly, we hadn t heard of any yet, it had to be taken down. today, it s interesting, it s a joint operation, as dan mentioned out of a norad joint operation, u.s. kennedy and canadian, demonstrating that they re tracking this now. no clear diplomatic angle yet, but when we find out what that stuff is and dissect it, i m sure we ll have a better idea of where it came from. joel, in dan de luce some s reporting, he had some interesting analysis that we often hear when it comes to matters of national security of defense, which is this push and pull on transparency, and the way in which the comments that we are going to hear today that we are waiting to hear likely can be influenced by things that happened earlier in the week. walk us through, and they ....
That crossed the united states and also entered canadian airspace. so, we could go, if it related to the object it was downed off the coast of alaska yesterday? and then, they re gonna be questions about how did they know it was not manned if they chose to shut this down, as presumably it was not meant. we don t know that either we don t know the speed exactly, what kind of a craft. so, it s just a long list of questions and an extraordinary week. and i think both u.s. and canadian authorities are gonna be under pressure to devote more information, and maybe declassify more information so they can articulate the public or at least clear out some uncertainties. dan, you said something really critical there which is this is an extraordinary part of the context of this conversation, part of what we re going to be looking for and watching for as we get this briefing. is the way in which what has happened previously in this week impacts the amount of ....
hello everyone. i am alicia menendez. a new hour of american voices, and we begin with breaking news. just hours ago, a third on and fight object was shot down over north america. canadian prime minister justin trudeau tweeted that norad successfully downed the using a u.s. f-22 fighter jet. the prime minister also announced the canadian and u.s. forces will work together to recover and analyze the objects wreckage. short time ago, the pentagon issued a statement saying that president biden spoke with prime minister trudeau, authorizing u.s. fighter jets to work with canada to bring down the kroft. the statement also reveals that the u.s. detected the object over alaska late friday night, and continued to monitor it as it crossed canadian airspace. now, at any moment, we expect an update from canadian authorities about the situation. joining me until we get that visual out, nbc s dan de luce ....
Live in washington. dan, i ask you to flag us, as you had new reporting, rolling in what we ve learned about this incident. i think we ve learned a few more details that i think we re gonna hopefully learn a lot in this press conference in canada. we did learn that they spotted it friday evening. that is significant. that indicates that it was not necessary moving that fast if it took all this time for it to cross into northern canada. and then, also, the u.s. aircraft took a close look at it, according to norah add. now, we re not hearing it description or seeing an image of what they saw, but it begs the question what they saw that led them to decide both the canadian prime minister and president biden to take down that object. it is really extraordinary series of events here and it s one of the first questions that this press conference is going to be was this object, in some way related to either the chinese surveillance balloon ....