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the united states. that is not going to change but surely and certainly, the balloon was not helpful, which is why we shot down. >> so the white house is always saying that this is a conversation that continues strategic on petition, they don't seek to be in conflict with china. for everyone else wondering what is the deal with these other objects, are they still going to attempt to recover them? we are just learning overnight that the military has recommended not to continue those efforts into the object that was shot down over the arctic. those alaskan waters, and one shot down over lake huron. simply because it is been too difficult, at least so far, to recover any debris from their. the object of course, because the harsh winter conditions and lake huron, because of the death of the water. it is really possible here that we won't get any kind of picture as to what those objects ended up being. though it is possible that can officials will still try to cover what landed over the yukon in northern canada. they work on the avenue in

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unidentified objects and who exactly they belong to, whether it's a country, a private entity. right now what the focus will be is on the recovery missions for both the one that was shot down today and the one shot down yesterday to try to determine as much information as they possibly can about their origin and also the purpose. >> all right, arlette saenz, we know you'll stay on top of it. thanks so much. joining us to talk about this, transportation analyst mary schiavo and inspector general for the department of transportation. where do we begin? let's start with some of the information that was coming from the canadian defense minister just a few moments ago because i have -- i listened to that press conference, and i had lots of questions. first of all, this canadian defense minister said that the object that is i guess of interest here in all of this, that was shot down over the skies in canada earlier today, was cylindrical in shape. that was the -- the exact word

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fell, if you're talking about miles and miles in terms of the debris stretching on for that kind of distance, you know, you want to be careful when you go up there, and you want to make sure you're doing it in adequate weather so you can retrieve everything. this may take several days. obviously as has been pointed out, it then needs to return to labs, right, in the united states, in canada, so they can have a good look at it and get some forensic detail as to what it actually was. but absolutely, jim, no one should underestimate how difficult it is to run these kinds of operations in that weather and in those kind of extreme circumstances. >> all right. hopefully there's not too much snow, and we can get an eyeball on things soon. paula newton, thank you very much. we'll take a quick break. we'll be right back on all of this. the breaking news coming into cnn, the shooting down of another unidentified object over canada. earlier today the canadian defense minister just wrapped up a press conference in the last half hour or so describing the object as cylindrical in shape, but that it was flying at about

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because the jet that's were scrambled for that object when it was shot down was from alaska and canada. so this restriction over montana is certainly very interesting, and we'll continue to monitor it for updates. >> all right, natasha better brand, thank you very much -- bertrand, thank you so much for a long day of coverage. we appreciate it. joining us now, coming back to us now, cnn transportation analyst mary schiavo. i hope you put on another pot of coffee. we're thinking about doing the same over here. mary, of course, a former inspector general for the department of transportation. the faa restricting airspace in montana for national defense reasons. we've not been given a reason at this time as to why that is. but mary, obviously they would not be doing this for some aircraft or object that was downed earlier today in canada. and we should -- note to our viewers, this is what the faa did before the chinese spy balloon was taken down off the coast of south carolina about a week ago.

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and that it was in -- it was cylindrical, a small cylindrical object which obviously sounds very strange. but as mary schiavo was saying, there might be some perfectly fine explanations for that. your impressions as to how much information you're getting from the canadian side of things -- we're not getting a lot from the american side at this point. >> reporter: yeah, and if canadian officials wanted to get ahead of this obviously because it was shot down over canadian airspace and was up to them to make thyselese pronouncements ty what was shot down, what was going on, the fact that it was shot down 4.5 hours ago now. they were going through the debris field to try and ascertain what it is. i think there were a couple of significant things, and i think -- and the defense minister saying that it was at 40,000 feet. that gives us some explanation as to why they decided that it had to be brought down. we're showing a map now of yukon. that is a huge territory. she said it was shot down in central yukon.

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down. so jim, earlier in the day when we were seeking information from norad, when we thought perhaps there might be more than one object, norad came back and confirmed that there was one that they were observing. shortly after that we heard from justin trudeau saying that, indeed, that u.s. fighter planes had been scrambled to go and shoot it down. but only after both u.s. and canadian aircraft had been up there observing it. so then there was this issue as to whether or not there had been yet another object that they had observed. now even if it had happened for a short time, i want to bring up a tweet from matt rosendale, a representative in montana. and he confirmed that he says he was in direct contact, you see it there, with northern command in monitoring what could possibly be another object at that northern border and that airspace, as he says, had been closed, and that they were going to observe it again in the morning. what does this mean? does it mean it's no longer a threat to commercial air traffic, but radar is still

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a u.s. fighter jet that fired that missile that took out that object over canada. jim? >> all right. natasha bertrand, thank you very much. we appreciate it. retired air force colonel cedric layton is back with us. you thought you were leaving for the evening, but -- like the line from "the godfather," we pulled you back in. let me ask you because the canadian defense minister had this press conference about a half hour, 45 minutes ago, and some of what she was saying was intriguing. and feel tfree to throw cold water on suspicions going on as to what's happening. she described this object as flying at about 40,000 feet, similar to what took place in alaska, so that brought into the equation this issue of civilian aviation safety. that it was shot down over central yukon. and that it was cylindrical in shape which sounds curious, and i talked to mary schiavo,

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catching something there? it's all quite a mystery. i will say in a lengthy press conference that the canadian defense minister had, at her side was the chief of canadian defense staff. so this will give you an indication how serious this was. the fact that the defense minister herself had said that it was cylindrical, that that object that they shot down was at about 40,000 feet, that it was much smaller than the one that was shot down over the carolinas, off the coast of south carolina, by the u.s. military. but also that it was unprecedented, right. the first time in her knowledge that norad had done something like this jointly with the united states and canada shooting it down. now in another part of the press conference, the chief of the defense staff kind of indicated that while it was cylindrical, that there might have been some kind of a balloon apparatus involved, as well. i don't know if he misspoke or if he was -- knew something because we do know, jim, that on that object that both canadian

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the coast of north carolina. there is no reason to believe that the impact of the object in canadian territory is of any public concern. >> reporter: now there's some details that she shared there that they felt were different from the object that was downed just last week. it's also worth noting that the object that was over -- off the alaskan coast yesterday and then today, that those were flying at about h40,000 feet. there was some concern that there could be some impact for civilian aircraft. to recap, there's this object today. yesterday there was another unidentified object near the coast of alaska that president biden ordered to have shot down. and then just one week prior we were here talking about that suspected chinese spy balloon that was off the carolina coast that president biden had ordered shot down, as well. now there still are so many questions about these latest two

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pentagon is that norad had detected the object over alaska actually late friday evening, and then two f-22 fighter jets from alaska monitored the object over u.s. airspace, and then tracked it as it went into canada. now this was obviously the u.s. and canada working very closely together because obviously we have seen these kinds of objects floating around in the area over the last several days. just yesterday the president authorized the shoot-down of yet another object that was flying over alaskan airspace. that was shot down yesterday about ten miles off the coast there. this one we're told they just wanted to wait and monitor it because it was first spotted over alaska, and they did not feel like it was the right time to shoot it down immediately. so they waited to see where it was going. itdented up going over canada -- it did end up going over canada. u.s. and canadian fire jets working together under the norad hat, they worked together to bring it down. it was ultimately a fighter jet,

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