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Katy Tur Reports

after all, the white house has said our radar sensitivity has been adjusted to see more of these objects, so if we're taking them down, how risky is it going to be and how expensive will it be as well? former aviator and analyst, bryn tannehill told us yesterday the side winder missiles that took these out can cost around $500,000 and they're not exactly a sure thing. tannehill also warned us these targets are not always easy to hit. case in point, the object shot down over lake huron took two missiles. the first one missed. joining me now is ryan nobles. and from brussels, nbc news pentagon correspondent, courtney. on the subject of whether this is going to be policy, we know there's a lot of stuff out there. flying junk, whatever you want to call it, this is spotted by airmen and women. we have the report of ufo sightings. over 500 of them spotted by our

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Katy Tur Reports

capabilities and in light of this chinese spy balloon, we acted out of caution. it was twofold. a risk to civil aviation, but also the potential risk to intelligence collection. >> i wonder if you're getting on a commercial jet tonight and going at an altitude, 30, 40,000 feet, can you feel confident that the air space is clear? that there are not more of these objects out there? we've adjusted our radar sensitivity to see more of them. i guess my question is does it mean there were a bunch of them out there before that we didn't know about? >> it's hard to know for sure. it's hard to prove something that you can't go back in time and look at. what we can assure the american people is that if they get on a plane tonight, that norad, the u.s. military are taking our air space management requirements very, very seriously as well as the faa of course and they can fly with that safe comfort that we're taking a hard look at the

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Katy Tur Reports

we don't know that yet. it would certainly make it much more difficult if any of these other objects were, in fact, from china. as i say, we don't know whether they are from china, a state actor, private, there's a lot of stuff up there. i should point out that kirby and other officials have been saying the reason why they were taken down is, yes, because of civilian airspace, but also why are we seeing more stuff out there. this i'm getting also from others who have been briefed on it, that we are tightening and heightening our radar detection so they're picking up more things that were already out there, but the radar sensitivity is being tightened in the after math of the embarrassment of the chinese spy balloon across the entire u.s. without us taking it down. >> we're looking more closely. garrett, let's talk about lawmakers. over the weekend and today,

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Chris Jansing Reports

he also said once again, which we knew from last night's briefing. they have changed the radar sensitivity, so they're capable of picking up things they were not previously looking for. that does not answer the question as to whether there are more out there or were simply picking them up at a greater rate. that's an important question he says they don't yet know the answer to. and the other thing he said, i think it was important. they are not, in fact, putting balloons over china, which is a dispute right now, of course with beijing. china has alleged multiple u.s. spy balloons floated over their territory since 2022. john kirby is disputing that today. >> not only that, but nothing surveilling from the sky, at least as far as he knows. allie raffa, one of the big questions has been why shoot down the other balloons. we have heard from tom costello, concern reiterated by john kirby at 20,000 feet, 30,000 feet, a level of commercial aircraft. what else did you hear that you took away? >> yeah, chris, john kirby

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Katy Tur Reports

down off the coast of south carolina, these appear smaller, much less payload, if any. they were not able to change altitude to have any sort of navigation. they were just free floating. which indicates a lower level of sophistication than the previous balloon. all three were shot down with missiles, which indicates that there is a capability to do so. but interestingly enough, it also seems to suggest that u.s. capability to detect these increased with changes to the radar systems that looked for these sort of things. >> so they have changed the sensitive of the radar sensitivity, as you said. does that mean we're going to see more of them. if we're going to start seeing more of them, are we going to be shooting things down left and right? >> not necessarily. one of the problems with balloons that i talked about previously is that they don't look like weapons systems to radar systems. they don't travel very fast.

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