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Criteria. then is that to say if it were at 60,000 feet it wouldn't be allowed or conversely if the chinese spy balloon was down where civilian a aircraft are it would have been shot down is that our only criteria or main criteria? it doesn't make any sense. and from an oversight standpoint from congress, we're going to keep demanding answers. >> will: you know, congressman. i don't want to push you beyond the responsible limits of your immediate knowledge on this. i'm not going to ask you to speculate can we at least possibly run through what the possibilities are on what this object could be...

It's not very easy to track them because they're made out of plastic, vinyl on the top so it doesn't have much of a radar signature, and the payload underneath is generally not that large. the one we shot down over south carolina was a larger one, so they say about the size of three buses. but usually these balloons have a relatively small payload. it's the hard to find on ray car. they move really -- radar. they move really slowly which makes it something that's less threaten, so people react less quickly. we need another the a better job of coming up with a scheme to monitor for slow moving,...

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Entailed. instead, they tried to flip the script, monitoring it constantly and tried to learn about it as it traversed the united states. there were days of planning to figure out the best possible time to shoot this down. in fact, it was decided not to shoot it down over the continental united states because of the risk to people and property. instead, that decision was made out over the water. the pentagon and northern command launched f-22s from langley air force base in hampton, v.a., as well as support aircraft and tankers as well. in the end it was a single f-22 that fired a side winder ...

Coming to you live from studio 4 at the cnn center in atlanta, miami michael holmes. coming up, the suspected chinese spy balloon's journey ended by a single missile by a u.s. fighter jet. >> they just shot it. see the smoke coming from it? >> recovery efforts under way at this hour. the incident heightening already tense relations between washington and beijing. and we have all of the angles covered right here. oren lieberman has the view from pentagon. we have reports from the white house and our ivan watson is live in hong kong with china's angry response. we are about to show you the d...