florida, one over texas and separate reporting that we have not been able to ask about over hawaii and guam. so what were the extend of these incursions? this exclusive fox video shows the moments that f-22 raptor out of langley shot down the chinese balloon with a side winder missile. the first time since pearl harbor that the u.s. has shot down a hostile aircraft over u.s. territory. hawaii wasn t a state back then. in a press briefing with reporters, the top general admitted the u.s. military did not detect the earlier flights during the trump administration. john kirby also spoke earlier with reporters. i can tell you that we discovered these flights after we came in to office. i m not going to get into the specifics of how we did the
forensics. you can understand that we ll be careful about that. john kirby also said that the u.s., there s no plans to return any of the debris found in the ocean back to china. certainly there s some relief here at the white house because officials here did not want that chinese spy craft still floating over the united states when president biden gives his state of the union address tomorrow night at the capitol. neil? neil: thanks for that. go to jennifer griffin at the pentagon and how our defense folks are weighing in on this. jennifer? neil, the pentagon has asked the public to report and not touch anything from the balloon wreckage that washes ashore. at 2:39 p.m. saturday, a u.s. f-22 fighter jet fired a single missile at the chinese spy balloon, which was six miles off of the coast of south carolina. the high altitude was launched from mainland china.
told the defense department i wanted to shoot it down as soon as was appropriate. they concluded they concluded we should not shoot it down over land. it was not a serious threat, and we should wait until it got across the water. that was from a couple of minutes ago. president joe biden arriving back at the white house from camp david, answering a question from our colleague, kelly o donnell. you heard the president say it, it was always the plan to wait for the chinese spy balloon to shoot it down until it was safe to shoot it down. as we speak, a team is working to collect the remnants of the balloon near where it was shot dawn over the atlantic ocean off the coast of south carolina saturday. this is the moment of impact courtesy of a single missile from an f-22 raptor. officials tell nbc news that not only was this the safest way to do it for the balloon to pass over water, but it also improves the likelihood of collecting all of the intact material for the sake of our intellig
searching the area for degree. rachel: alexandria hoff is here this morning. the heavy payload of spy gear fell into 47 feet of water with a debris of seven miles long. fox news was the only network to capture it live. exclusive video shows the moment a f-22 raptor fired off a sidewinder heat-seeking missile destroying the chinese balloon. the takedown happened 2:39 p.m. six miles off the coast of south carolina. prior to that the surveillance balloon ventured across the country maneuvering over several critical military sites spotted by civilians along the way. potential danger to the civilians on the ground prompted the department of defense to hold offshooting it down earlier. president biden had instructed u.s. military commanders to take action earlier in the week but he said he left it up to them to