the second one off the coast of alaska is up in some really, really difficult terrain in the arctic circle with very, very low temperatures in the minus 40s. blast one. coi one. reporter: audio of the moment an f-22 shot down the chinese spy balloon. the balloon is completely destroyed. reporter: the u.s. military has recovered a significant portion of the balloon. divers were able to get in the water and recover a significant amount of debris including structure and electronics. reporter: what we are hearing more of is what you heard there from senator lindsey graham. a call for president joe biden to come out and address the public. first, to say what is known and second, perhaps also to calm everyone down whether there is any threat here or any concern here but so far, the white house has said although biden remains engaged, there is nothing in the schedule suggesting he will make
floaties that any f-22 fighter jet can sort of knock out of the sky. all right, we re going to do this. we re going to do the alien thing about news. that answer is very persuasive, and there s no evidence leading towards extra terrestrial life. but the counterpoint to that answer would be that a very sophisticated foreign entity not of this world or this neighborhood might be doing things we don t fully understand or might send out their little thing to test and it s not the full spacecraft. okay, so, all i m saying is, if you an alien that can cross the galaxy, we are we r worms to them, okay? just think to yourself what this
due to its potential surveillance capabilities the faa issuing a temporary flight restriction over nearby lake michigan earlier sunday afternoon, citing department of defense activities, coming just hours after air space was restricted over montana saturday night for the same reason initially assessed as radar anomaly. i think i got dark last night so they couldn t fully check it out reporter: as new details emerge about the flying object shot down by the u.s. over northern canada saturday, an f-22 taking out a small cylindrical object first spotted in american air space friday a carefully coordinated mission between the two countries. this was the first time that a norad operation has downed an aerial object the object was flying at an altitude of approximately 40,000 feet it had unlawfully entered canadian air space and posed a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight
surveillance platform, the first one, go over the united states, it became a cause celebre around the world. we now own it, and that s not comfortable for the chinese, and of course we canceled the trip for the secretary of state. my guess is the other two objects are not chinese and china is doing everything they can right now to keep as low a profile as possible. but who knows. we won t know until the administration fully briefs on what these things are. to be fair, when you go by one of these things in an f-22 or f-18, you re moving pretty fast. until you pick up the pieces on the ground, there s uncertainty. democrat jim himes, member of the house intelligence committee and the gang of eight. if anybody s going to have information, it s that gang of eight. congressman himes, thanks for coming in. thank you, chuck. let me bring in the panel. we have a couple more reporters that may have more information for us. capitol hill correspondent garrett haake. leigh ann caldwell, jona