so now here s what we know. the balloon is about 200 feet high, the pay load, which you saw suspended beneath it to gather intelligence was about the size of a jetliner. that debris, which is expected to include glass solar panels was spread out over the size of 15 football fields. may have included battery material, explosives that would detonate that vehicle. the pieces now on their way, some of them, to the fbi lab at quantico for analysis. so there s a lot of discussion about how this thing was brought down and whether or not it maximized our ability to understand what it was and what was in it. as i mentioned, we re watching the white house. the press briefing is john going. we re waiting for fresh answers about what happened up there, new reaction. china says there might be a further response merited for the united states from our taking this out of the sky over the weekend. today fox news spoke with the gentleman who disclosed that this was up there in the sky without
the suspected chinese spy craft brought down a week ago. according to the white house this is about the size of a small sedan, a lot smaller than the balloon. it was not equipped with a significant payload, in fact, who or what yesterday s object belonged to is still up for question. we re calling this an object because that s the best description we have right now. we do not know who owns it, whether it s a whether it s state-owned or corporate-owned or privately owned. we just don t know. well, the object s flight path over alaska was north easterly. it s unclear where it was first detected. the pentagon says it was spotted using ground radar, and again, altitude, 40,000 was determined safety threat to civilian airplanes so president biden ordered it shot down yesterday and summed up his feelings with one word. do you have anything to say about the object shot down over alaska, mr. president? and it was taken down 1 p.m. yesterday off the cost of alaska near the p
Debbie Nelson, Grand Forks County auditor, told the Herald Tuesday night, June 11, that there were unofficially 7,692 ballots cast in this year's primary election. There were 7,041 in 2022.