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>> alright brian thanks thanks so much arthel. arthel: right now for more and all this are going to bring captain tom a retired u.s. marine corps lieutenant colonel and former f-18 top gun combat fighter pilot. that is pretty dope. explain to us sir first of all. [laughter] what does the pentagon refer to when they are talking about as a reasonable threat? >> a arthel great to be here, thanks for having me. reasonable threat, anything that is unidentified or un- responsive broaching sovereignty u.s. airspace needs to be addressed right norad is tracking at the aircraft on alert and they can ad...

Arthel: of the story covered on all angles retired f-18 pilot combat the military mission senior fellow at the heritage foundation michael pillsbury on the file it with beijing and bryan llenas but first we start with lucas tomlinson alive at the white house, hello lucas. >> arthel a senior u.s. official confirms to fox news this object was able to successfully penetrate u.s. airspace before it was spotted on radar by norad. the pentagon say they will only say it this was first discovered netware. six entered into airspace on february 9. the decision was made that posed a reasonable threat to ...

To be yes another high altitude airborne object this one detected by norad. detected by norad over canada. this is breaking as we are on the air now norad does confirm the canadian global news report that we have been reporting has a new object has been discovered over canada that no indication this new thing has been shut down yet. making this potentially the third high altitude object that is crossed over into north america territory. official said something the size of a car was shot down by our air force over the coast of alaska. of course last week shootdown of the chinese spy balloon off...

Can float up around and launch. what is your sense? what does your gut tell you about this thing? >> i don't know and i'll tell you why. the guys flying out of oceana and off the west coast they have raters now that are a lot more powerful and capable than the f-18's i was flying. they have been seeing stuff, reports of unidentified objects are massive right now. it never was in the day. it started with an incident in the off of san diego the operations area. now they are saying that offer oceana in the morning areas in the atlantic. who knows what is out there. a lot of what they are seeing a...

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