about the size and shape of the two high altitude objects the military shut down over alaska on friday and cannot yesterday. hello eric. eric: hello thank you all for joining us i m eric shawn for another high-altitude objects down by military aircraft this follows reef closing of and they close airspace over parts of montana for a few hours last night. they sent fighter jets of to take a look at radar anomaly but they found nothing. this comes after the u.s. military down to the chinese spy balloon off the coast of south carolina last weekend. coming up former acting dhs secretary chad wolf is with us the house intelligence committee. both standing by to fill us in and we have live fox team news coverage. brian is in recovery efforts off the east coast there but let s go to lucas tomlinson alive at the very latest at the white house if we have the latest on what is now another apparent shootdown over lake huron. but since right moms go senior u.s. official confirmed to fox n
terminology such as flying or to the air. the air domain underwater. this is really a first principled approach to look at this without all the cultural baggage that there is been in the past. i spoke with some experts in this area who say that it could be an earth bound enemy or opponent who has some very sophisticated drones, basically that they are putting up in the atmosphere. is that possible? absolutely. we treat this primarily as a domain awareness cap. a matter of national security that we understand what is in our airspace. aviation security that our aircrew no what is in front of them when they are flying around. when you are flying in f-18, what did you see? we still do not know. what we were seeing were objects
they apparently went over, florida, hawaii, guam, melter installations in guam for north folk virginia is a big naval base in california. these balloons had radar jamming signals intel hears general glenn that her head of the north american aeros defense command. he admits it, these things went over but they did not even see them at the time. here s what the general just said. it is my responsibility to detect threats to north america. i can tell you we did not detect those threats. and that is an domain awareness cap that we have to figure out. before domain awareness cap they couldn t figure out the got a big loophole these things are coming over across our country. what are your thoughts on our military having and do we unawareness cap using the words of the generally did not even see these things. and fortunately we also call