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40,000 foot range, has it happened before? and second of all, why did you -- can you say more about why you knew that last balloon or object was from china whereas this one you don't know? >> so in terms of this particular object, again, as i highlighted, we don't know where it's from. it posed a reasonable threat to civilian air traffic, and so the determination was made to take it down. in terms of the other balloon, as i mentioned in our previous briefing, we have learned a lot about the chinese surveillance high altitude balloon program. we've gathered a lot of information over the last co...

0 president lula has to make. >> reporter: i wanted to follow up on a question i asked in september. in light of the chinese spy balloon incident does this administration consider chinese land purchases near u.s. military bases a national security threat? >> we are always concerned about potential foreign collection near or around our military sites, and you're right, last week is a good example of that. we take that seriously, whether that's terrestrial related or whether it's from the air. and i think i'll just leave it at that. >> reporter: would you work with congress to put in place legis...

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Exist in that region that are capable of hitting an aircraft at that height are weapons that aren't shoulder-fired missiles. they're instead ones that look like these. vehicle-mounted surface-to-air miss. about 18 feet long. they can easily hit a target flying in the 30,000 foot range. whereas shoulder-fired missiles, there we go, max out at closer to 10,000 feet. and vehicle-mounted surface-to-air missile systems have been around since these particular ones that exist in that part of the world, they've been around since the 1970s. there's lots of different iterations of them. they're used by ...

Surface of mars than the bottom of the sea. let's move on and describe the ocean floor where they're going to be searching for flight 370. >> well, the average depth of the oceans throughout our planet, and remember, most of our planet is ocean, is about 12,000 to 15,000 feet. and the depth of the water around this search site is mostly in the 10,000 foot range, though there's a trench that drops to 18,000 feet. >> okay. we know more than possibly the surface of mars than the ocean, why is that? >> well, it's simply because we haven't invested the resources in studying the oceans like we have ...