welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states and all around the world. ahead on cnn newsroom, u.s. military taking down another object flying over american waters just days after the downing of the suspected chinese supply balloon. plus george santos claiming he s ard at work despite controversy swirling around hum. what he is or isn t doing on the job. we re one day away from super bowl lvii. we ll take you live for a preview of the big game. a u.s. fight er jet shot an unidentified object out of the sky friday off the coast of alaska on i d s order. there s significant differences between this object and the chinese supply balloon shot down from the atlantic last saturday. the object friday had no surveillance equipment ask steer itself. it was flying 40,000 feet over alaska s northern coast. it posed a threat to civilian aircraft. the debris field has been mapped and officials hope to learn more from the wreckage, but they aren t sure what it is or who
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welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states and all around the world. ahead on cnn newsroom, u.s. military taking down another object flying over american waters just days after the downing of the suspected chinese supply balloon. plus george santos claiming he s ard at work despite controversy swirling around hum. what he is or isn t doing on the job. we re one day away from super bowl lvii. we ll take you live for a preview of the big game. a u.s. fight er jet shot an unidentified object out of the sky friday off the coast of alaska on i d s order.
cnn white house reporter natasha bertrand has more on this stour. reporter: the white house and pentagon said president biden ordered a still unidentified object shot down near alaska on friday afternoon mark ing the second time in under a week that american fighter jets have taken town ab object flying over u.s. air space. the object flying near alaska was first detected on thursday, at which point fighter jets were sent up to investigate and it was determined it was flying at around 40,000 feet and did not appear to have the ability to maneuver on its own it was essentially float ing with the wind and the president determined it did pose a risk to civilian aircraft because of the altitude. unlike the kentucky these supply balloon, this did not have s surveillance equipment on it, according to a u.s. official it s also unclear still where the object actually came from, but it was heading in a northeasterly direction when it was shot down on friday. it was also much smaller than
last week. that s what led really to these two things being treated very, very differently. now the biggest difference when you talk to officials say is where this object was flying. it was flying about 40,000 feet up in the air. now that s about the top range of where commercial airlines will fly. last week s chinese supply balloon was 60,000. so they said there was a great risk to commercial aircrafts, even though that area doesn t have a lot of planes going through it, there s still a great risk to civilian aircrafts and they believed it needed to be down ed. now there were other major differences including the size of it. this object was the size of the small car compared to last week s supply balloon, which the payload was the size of three buss. and the maneuverability. the white house said that they could see it had maneu maneuverability. so all those factors led to that