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Inch of the stadium. scott brown is the federal top official in charge of security. >> i was in new york for 9/11. i've seen the devastating impacts of terrorism on our soil. i am deeply committed, as are all of my partners, to making sure we don't have an incident like that here. >> reporter: sky patrol is in the hand of the air and marine operations. when you're patrolling, what could they be looking for? >> we're going to look for anything out of the ordinary. anything from smoke to disruptions. >> reporter: air and marine operations will be able to fly over the stadium during the big game,...

50 nautical miles in montana, near the canadian border and classify the area as national defense airspace. just a short time ago, nor ride the north american aerospace defense command released this statement saying in part with the coordination of the faa nor at implemented a temporarily flight restriction in montana to ensure the safety of air traffic in the area during the operations do restrictions have been lifted a short time ago norad detected a radar anomaly and send aircrafts to investigate. those aircraft did not identify any objects to correlate to the radar hits, norad will continue...

>> reporter: they'll be able to fly over the stadium during the big game, but no other aircraft will because the faa will be imposing a flight restriction that's 30 miles wide. >> reporter: those tliet restrictions will be enforced by norad with these f-16 fighter jets. >> since 9/11, we've been able to safely escort out any aircraft that's violating the airspace. >> reporter: they're taking no chances. this is part of the fleet on hand. it can carry up to 200,000 pounds of fuel. there are ten tanks on board including some on the winks. >> reporter: it can refuel an f-16 midair in minutes. >> ...

It was just sort of something that triggered it but not identifying an object. here's what senator tester said this morning about the efforts to figure out what triggered that temporary flight restriction. >> the truth is that there's an anomaly and investigated. got dark last night and i'm sure as we speak is it is being identified. >> there might be something out there? >> might be a false alarm. what's going on is nothing short of craziness and the military needs to have a plan to determine what's out there and the dangers that go with it. >> you saw him keep the door open to the possibilit...

This temporary flight restriction for less than two hours is lifted. what we are hearing from norad and the faa due to operations but what they aren't saying is what the operations were. the concerning thing that folks are thinking act is what are the objects in the sky to potentially be causing the flight restrictions? this is the same kind of flight restriction we saw in place last weekend when that chinese spy balloon was downed off the coast of south carolina. looking about this short lived temporary flight restriction we should note that there was also a short lived temporary flight restr...