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. had unlawfully entered canadian air space and posed a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight. we re always going to defect and we re always going to defect our air space. reporter: saturday s military operation came just a day after the president authorized the u.s. to take aim at another unidentified object, off the coast of alaska. those tasked with recovering debris are battling severe wind chill and limited daylight. as a call for transparency grows
has suggested the very purpose is to collect on our radar system, air defense systems, including the systems of the aircraft taking them down, the f-22, f-16, the radar pods, the missiles in the like. specifically the terminal phase of flight, that only happening when you re taking a shot of these things. the very purpose may be to draw fire to figure out hour our systems work. this may sound cynical. in the world of spycraft this could be legit, jamil. is it possible that after what we know is a chinese spy balloon, after that was shot down, is it possible that things might have been launched to do exactly what you re saying. they may not be something that has a lot of information gathering technology, but they may be saying let s see how long it takes, how they will react? that s certainly a very real
this is the third time in a week u.s. air force f-22 raptors shot down aircraft over north america, two over the united states and now over canada. the first time in u.s. history aircraft have been shot down over north america. go back to pearl harbor, this took place, very different with mysterious objects. the white house releasing a statement moments ago saying earlier today president biden spoke with prime minister trudeau on this unidentified unmanned object in north american airspace. the object closely tracked to monitor north american space over the past 24 hours. the president has been continuously briefed by national security team since the object was detected an abundance of caution at the recommendation of their militaries, president biden and prime minister trudeau authorized it to be taken down. president biden authorized the fighter aircraft to sign to norad to conduct operation in u.s. f-22 shut down the object
but with the daylight hours and terrain they are dealing with jon: and the snow which is deep and unrelenting. lieutenant colonel david flippo from the u.s. air force. thank you. dr. rebecca grant joins us. she is a military analyst among other things. we know a little bit more. the canadian defense minister seemed to suggest this cylindrical object they shot down, that a u.s. f-22 shot down over canada might have been carried by a balloon. she didn t absolutely state that but seemed to be headed in that direction. minister anond was being careful not to say too much. i m impressed more trad was abls
the one down off the coast of north carolina. jon: when she says north carolina, she obviously means south carolina. the incident last week when the chinese spy craft was shot down off myrtle beach. now this one was described as a cylindrical, she stopped short of saying it had been carried off by a balloon but indications are starting to come to the floor that suggests that s what it was, a balloon flying at lower altitude, not 60000 feet this time but maybe 40000 feet. it was brought down by f-22 again from the u.s. but operating under norad command norad, the agency that protects all of the airspace for the north american defense command, that s what the acronym is all about.