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
air up at altitude there. you can see that bend there. that looks to me like it s the jet. the other trail, the thinner one, looks like it s the air-to-air missile going into that balloon. so you can also see in some of this video that we have been getting from sources online what in essence amounts to a waiting game. these fighter pilots were circling this balloon like sharks until they could get away from the populated areas along the coast of north carolina and south carolina. president biden said he ordered the department of defense to shoot it down on wednesday, but the department of defense wanted to wait until much later when there would be no risk to folks on the ground. that looks like the envelope of the balloon, the top of the balloon deflated and falling down there. this was a pretty easy day, likely, for the aviators of this f-22. it is the perfect missile mount
they intended it it to do. that s what we re looking at for friday. we re getting new video today, eyewitness account from the soul survivors of a deadly balloon ride in egypt. the balloon deflated, oh, my goodness, this is terrible, remember we told you the story, the balloon deflated and it was trailing smoke across the sky, and the basket filled with 21 terrified passengers, only two men survived. trace gallagher has the story from the west coast news room. reporter: these are all early morning balloon flights, see the sunrise over the valley of the kings and luxor, the west bank of the nile. this balloon was coming in for a landing when it struck a power line, when it burned and crashed, that line exploded causing an explosion of the gas cannisters that filled up