when the norad commander last week said the last balloon showed some domain weaknesses, that s a problem. we usually don t tell our enemies where those are. so this is going to be normal course of business if things violate our airspace. colonel, back to you. i m going to ask you a question that i assume is tough to answer. based on the description we have, this is the size of a small car. it was about 40,000 feet. nonmaneuverable. and when people hear small car, don t think of the dense ity of car, just the size of it. is there anything that you think that this could be, likely is, we can rule out that this item was? yeah, that s a great question, victor. i think, you know, one of the possibilities might be that it is actually a weather balloon so
be any commitment to the amazon fund by the united states during this visit? let s have the visit occur here shortly and we ll provide you a readout. i don t have anything specific on that. so, john, the u.s. special presidential coordinator for global and infrastructure energy is in angola and met with president lorenzo. can you elaborate on this visit? i don t have any information on that. we ll see if we can get you a better answer. was the president briefed on the object last night when it first came to our attention? he was. as soon as the pentagon had enough information, they did that. last question. thank you, john. as far as ukraine is concerned, one year now, does the president
what we learned about the first balloon last week, did that help us detect this object? i would say that, again, we detect when we detect objects let me just back up. what you re asking is did what we learned from the prc balloon help us track this. kind of a little bit of apples and oranges. in terms of norad north com tracts objobjects. so they tracked this. we re still assessing what this object was. i don t know that we learned anything new as a result of that other than, again, i think we re all, to include the media and the public, very attuned to balloons at the moment. so thank you. yes, sir. thank you, sir. and just to clarify, so this was
u.s. airspace. i do think that there s one significant thing to point out here, which is that with the chinese spy balloon, there was a number of contacts between u.s. diplomats and chinese diplomats before the biden administration took the move to shoot it down off the coast of south carolina. the fact that there hasn t been any back-and-forth with china according to the white house on this does indicate that perhaps they don t think it is chinese owned, but of course they aren t counting out anything right now. what we ll be watching for is the contacts, particularly on the diplomatic front, to inform allies about what happened here and try to work with partners that we share intelligence with to figure out what those countries might know that could help us, in addition to what s going to be this effort on the ground. this obviously went down over this was over frozen water, so it s going to be a very