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But with this increased vigilance, could we see countries shooting down more objects which pose no threat? yeah, it is difficult, especially because a lot of more kind of amateur—type balloons that are floating around may not have filed any flight plans or got any permission. and so there may be very little awareness of exactly what's up there, most of which is entirely harmless. it does pose a challenge, doesn't it, because you've gotjets flying up to try and look and see what they are, which sounds like it's quite difficult for them, and then firing $400,000 missiles to shoot them down, wh...

Has noticed them. you know, if the uk wanted to shoot one of these objects down, under international law, it would be entirely within its rights to do so. but i think there will need to be a degree of political consideration applied to this. after all, the united kingdom is not the united states. we're not a global superpower. but with this increased vigilance, could we see countries shooting down more objects which pose no threat? yeah, it is difficult, especially because a lot of more kind of amateur—type balloons that are floating around may not have filed any flight plans or got any perm...

Plenty of air traffic comes into our airspace from overseas, different countries including china. china airlines, air cargo but they have flight plans and transponders. these are not weather balloons. whatever level of sophistication it's a test, they don't have transponders or flight plans, operating in control and they need to be dispatched as soon as they are discovered by norad. are they ready and willing to do it? the f-16s, they are taking them out. it's not no big problem. there are stationary targets, they don't shoot, they're just data collection or whatever. jon: we will have a repor...

>> you are right we are reporting on this and it happens more often than we know about. and now we, the public of course aren't learning about this how often this is happening pretty set happens very often. in terms of a response but also collecting data and intelligent first what procedures and protocols go into this type of action from the u.s. military? >> they are watching it. norad is watching at them intelligent assets gathering they can listen and assess what electronics singles are coming out of that thing. and they can probably assess that data, extracted, and exactly what it is and t...

And i think that's why, just because they're not sticking to what made southwest southwest. keeping their employees happy so their employees could deliver great customer service. now the customers are mad. >> and they are really mad, some longtime customers we've been hearing from who are thinking about never flying southwest again. i do want to point this out, because southwest is saying to keep all the receipts for any expenses and the airline plans to make everyone's situation whole. what do you want from them? what would make you whole? >> that would certainly help. i think what i need is ...