let s go the white house on the breaking news. lucas tomlinson, i understand you have new reporting the share. lucas: that s right, senior official confirms that the u.s. government is weighing options on how to shoot down this chinese spy balloon when it crosses the atlantic, safely off the coast of the united states. now earlier in syracuse president biden was asked to do on the balloon and he said all options are on the table and this is what he said exactly. the chinese balloon we will take care of it. lucas: this morning former defense secretary chuck served under barack obama said this balloon should be brought down gently to exploit it. we don t know what the pentagon is going to do and what the president will ultimately decide and once it gets out over open waters i d be surprised if we would allow this balloon just to float back to china. lucas: both countries spawn each other, of course, just over a month ago the pentagon says fighter jet came to american sp
the pentagon working together in hopes of finding more answers as to where it came from and what its purpose was. fox team coverage on the latest development with alexandria hoff in washington and lucas tomlinson outside the white house. lucas: senior white house official this object was not detected after penetrating air space in alaska. yesterday the pentagon would only say when it was detected thursday night and not where. it entered into u.s. air space on february 9th. we sent up aircraft to assess what it was. the decision was made that it posed a reasonable threat to civilian air traffic. the president gave the order to take it down and we took it down. lucas: right now helicopters used to rescue airmen, are combing the area off the rugged north of alaska where the object was destroyed by raptor in anchorage. the temperature minus 20 degrees. at the white house john kirby was asked about the nomenclature. shot down near prudhoe bay, enormous 2,000 spy machine the size
big differences that you see? one without question is a spy balloon because when we looked at censor package, had communications and signals intelligence on it. this one didn t seem to have any but that doesn t mean it s not carrying something inside of it. we just don t know. it s very important when we get it and be able to retrieve any type of data. at least who made it. i think that there s two different ones and that goes back to third-generation warfare. are we looking at something different because the balloon technology has been worked on by the chinese for generations and they are really looking at ways to counter what we do in asymmetric way and it s very smart what they are doing. probe the united states, see what their reaction is going to be politically and militarily and then we will adjust from there because everything that you do in the military you always adjust to what is happening. my concern, again goes back that
correct, this would indicate there s other action coming. you said it right there. commercial aircraft doesn t fly that high. it s transiting at 60,000 feet. it s a little bit late to be taken the shot. i m sure they will beat their chest, we have taken it down and land in the atlantic, we haven t covered the censor package. i would have love today have seen happen, we give the secretary blinken, goes over and gives it back to president xi, thank you very much. very close to act of war. griff: general, we have been monitoring exclusive live shot high above surf side beach. we saw the smoke trails of a plane passing over. we know there s a ground stop. we don t know what the plane was and doesn t appear that it took
the sound picked up proved not to be coming from black boxes but that doesn t mean that searchers won t continue to use them. they will. these teams are stretching the bounds of technology. these latest detection this week came from the censors that were designed for combat. they are dropped out of a plane. descend below the surface and hunt for their target. they are a censor package that is parachuted out of an aircraft. authorities thought they might have detected a man made signal this week but have since dialed that back. once it hits the water s