on this matter, he did not address any of them. congressman henry cuellar with us, homeland security. what is odd about this congressman, how little we are told and whether we would have been told anything had not a reporter raised the question 11 or 12 minutes into a white house briefing. it is just odd, some people were notified, we know last two senators were notified about this and the presence of this small object flying over alaskan skies, and the governor dunleavy. public statement was made and given the environment last week with the balloon and search for wreckage to this day, do you find that odd? well, you know, certainly i think they reached out to certain people and i assume all of us will get more information.
an exceptional job. neil: you know, i do notice when you talk about the difference, too, the criticism had been in the balloon and notification that montana governor and senators got, of course they didn t get any when it was flying overhead at the time. sounds like that is not the case here, you and your governor, governor dunleavy were notified. were you notified, as well, afterward that it was indeed shot down? yes, i ve had briefings from northern command, which was responsible for this and i had briefings from the alaska command, which is sub-component command, northern command in norad on the operation. and i ve been briefed, as well.
0 prude obey witches on the border of canada and alaska on the northern side of the continent. that s all we know, we know that it was there for the better part of 24 hours and was shot down at 1:45 east coast time today. we will continue covering breaking news. i will see you back here on fox news at can you speak to rumors that there is another chinese balloon above alaska or any other u.s. territory that the u.s. shot down? so i can confirm that the department of defense was tracking high altitude object over alaska air space in the last 24 hours. out the object was flying at altitude of 40,000 feet and posed a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight. out of abundance of caution and recommendation of the pentagon, president biden ordered the military to down the object and they did and it came inside our territorial waters, the waters right now are frozen, but it s territorial air space and waters. assigned to u.s. northern command took down the object in the last
Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy today signed Administrative Order No. 340 creating the Office of Energy Innovation to address the evolving energy needs of Alaska.