it's a chinese supply balloon. is that because it's smaller? flying lower? is that because of the direction it was seen traveling in? >> first of all, if it was a follow-on chinese intelligence collection operation, then it would be either a level of political affront by president xi beyond belief or the pla was out of control. set that one aside, and then secondly, it was operating at a lower level, going as courtney picked up in an unusual direction, northeast, appeared not steerable. was a much smaller object. those f-22s, the unclassified ceiling, the air force said 50,000 feet. many sources say it can get up to 70,000 feet. so the f-22 has got eyeballs at very close range to see what it was. and they didn't detect a manned