now i m being told that is actually a plane after the strike of a balloon and then the balloon then losing shape, going down. security analyst is back with us. juliette, maybe your eyeballs are more trained than mine. we can at least see, perhaps, with a tighter view it looked like that balloon was disintegrating, as we heard an eyewitness describe earlier. can you decipher what s going on here for me? i hear your doorbell. i m sorry. so you ve got the look, the f-22 or f-15, we don t know which ones yet, we ll get a debrief from the pentagon, from areas in the carolinas, the missile would have been launched from them. so what you re seeing on the bottom side is the airplane, what we re seeing now. what you saw was the airplane, not the balloon. and i don t know if we have images of the direct hit. so the balloon is now so this is the important thing for people to remember. the balloon is balloon and cargo. we want the cargo. it s ours now. sorry, chinese, it s ours now
which aircraft may have been used here. it seems likely this was the air force f-22 raptor used here. its a new generation of fighters with bases across the country, very likely out of langley air force base. this video to me has some very clear clues in it. what you re seeing in a couple different instances is the contrail of a jet flying by, created by the hot exhaust of the jet engine of the airplane meeting moisture in the air and then causing it to condense. so you can see from left to right there, that looks to me like a contrail of what is likely a fighter jet. and then you see it take a bit of a turn and you can see, also, just what looks to be a bit of exhaust there from the impact, and then likely some parts you can see a glint occasionally there, a little flash of light of what looks to be falling debris. of course the military will be