welcome back to cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. new this hour. dramatic new details about the unidentified object shot down by fighter jets just miles off the coast of alaska yesterday. unlike the chinese spy balloon last saturday, this demanded more immediate action yesterday. officials say it was flying much lower at 40,000 feet making it a dangerous potential threat to civilian aircraft. now we are learning u.s. military pilots who approached the craft have given conflicting accounts of what they saw. this new report coming in from cnn national security reporter natasha bertrand. this is interesting. this is kind of unusual that these pilots saw different things and that is sort of, i guess, adding to the mystery of all of this. not even the pilots were able to identify what they saw. just to take you back for a sec. on thursday the u.s. defense officials sent f-35 fighter jets to try to figure out what this object was flying around near alaska. those pilot
person was supposed to be there. they are trying to make sure which part of the mar-a-lago affidavit is significant. it could cause significant damage to their criminal investigation. the federal magistrate who is considering the issue did put out an order just a few minutes ago saying he agrees the doj has a substantial reason to protect details of this ongoing investigation. we ll get into that ahead. also very disturbing images from a violent arrest in arkansas. this is so hard to even watch. this video shows two deputies and an officer appearing to punch and knee a suspect during an arrest. all three of those officers have been taken off duty. they are under investigation. multiple kicks to the head there. let s again there. omar jimenez has more on that. we do want to warn you once again, a lot of these images are disturbing. three arkansas law enforcement officers have been removed from duty after this video showing them hitting a man outside a store in mulberry,
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