very dangerous for just commercial air traffic, that is another reason you re hearing they decided to shoot this down, which again, not only the port, but prior to them doing that, i encouraged, but the faa, as you mentioned, i have not seen that directly, if they close the air space over there, it is because there are ongoing military flights, military recovery operations, including some of our outstanding air rescue teams in alaska, our national guard that do exceptional work and they re either on the ground right now or going to be on the ground trying to recover the fragments of this object, which was again, much smaller than the one shot down off the coast of south carolina. i ll tell you this, neil, one other thing we need to start emphasizing here. obviously we need to check out
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 altitude of 40,000 feet and posed a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight. out of abundance of caution and recommendation of the pentagon, president biden ordered the military to down the object and they did and it came inside our territorial waters, the waters right now are frozen, but it s territorial air space and waters. assigned to u.s. northern command took down the object in the last
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