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the shot-down happened at 2:39 eastern time off the coast of south carolina. very notable, it was just offshore about 6 nautical miles. why is that important? we learned from president biden and from defense secretary lloyd austin that this needed to be shot down within u.s. territorial waters. that is because they did not want to shoot it down in international air space, international waters and also because you didn t want to shoot it down too far offshore, then this debris would be down at the bottom of the ocean. right now officials say it s the debris from this chinese spy balloon is in about 47 feet of water. it s a lot easier to salvage things at 47 feet than 200 feet or 500 feet, of course, arthel. so right now the u.s. navy sending a a salvage stress is el, the u.s. coast forward as well sending their vessels to aid in this recovery. it is notable also where it was shot down, what altitude. that u.s. air force f-22 fighter jet shot down this at 58,000 feet. for days the pentag
shot. i m trying to think, that may actually be the first combat usage of the f-22. it s, you know, a plane we don t have a lot of, they re fantastic and very happy the air force was able to do and hopefully we can recover this. it s so bizarre for the chinese to have done this. you know, if you fly over another country in space, that s considered no big deal, the united states set that standard with our early surveillance satellites, the corona project which imaged the soviet unibegun and union and deorbited film before it hit to ocean. you have this bizarre act of the chinese, putting something within the atmosphere that was somewhat easily observable. maybe they thought it wouldn t be, but norad certainly proved them wrong, the u.s. and the canadians cooperating. being able to take a look at the equipment and to try and at least guess what was transmitted back to china will provide some useful information on why the chinese did this, why they did it right before our secretary of s