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Transmission equipment on it. for these new incidents, these two, what we don't know and we're not certain there was any transmission going on and we're not certain they were even chinese in origin, it is entirely possible that we've taken out things that previously we would have let fly by. >> there was also an incident last night apparently over montana that led to a brief shut down of air space over that state, norad and north com saying there was an anomaly. here is what senator jon tester said on this issue this morning. >> the investigation is still going on as we speak. the truth is tha...

What do you think the top brass are talking about right now? they're clearly reacting to this situation? is it possible to get ahead of this now or are they going to continue to react? >> i think in some ways they're reactive. it's kind of our national past time is to be reactive to events like this. they're trying hard to refine their processes. and we see part of that in the way that north com has responded to these things, much more frequent, much more engaged, clearly everyone from the radar operators to the fighter pilots is doing what they can to make sure that they know what's going on ...

First identified when it flew into u.s. airspace, is that correct? or was it identified before? >> it was detected yesterday, and again norad sent up aircraft to observe it, see what it was, and the decision was made to take it down. >> do you have any information whether this object flew over any other sovereign nations or countries? >> i do not. do not. i have time for a few more. let me go to joe. >> question about the recovery effort. i think you had mentioned at the outset that it was going to involve rotary wing aircraft. that's because it landed on ice as opposed to water, that's why th...

0 prude obey witches on the border of canada and alaska on the northern side of the continent. that's all we know, we know that it was there for the better part of 24 hours and was shot down at 1:45 east coast time today. we will continue covering breaking news. i will see you back here on "fox news at >> can you speak to rumors that there is another chinese balloon above alaska or any other u.s. territory that the u.s. shot down? >> so i can confirm that the department of defense was tracking high altitude object over alaska air space in the last 24 hours. out -- the object was flying at alti...

>> there was no hostile act or hostile intent. that would be the first. there was no impact to aviation routes, which would be another piece of that. the other would be, there was no, at the time, there was no suspected impact to critical intelligence gathering ability, in terms of infrastructure. that changed as the balloon made -- as it path continued. and as we reconstruct the path, we are not correspond with intelligence gathering in alaska. and based on that, the assessment continued from nor ad north com to continue to observe and report. >> so, victor and bianna, we are reporting that t...