balloons and egg glad we have f-22 s available to take them down. there must be some purpose behind it. i m reminded of how the chinese claimed the first one was just a civilian weather balloon that had blown off course as if there is such a thing as civilian technology employment in china. when we shot it down, they got angry and claimed they were going to demand reparations and that kind of thing. the last two we haven t heard a peep from china. we don t know they originated there but one has to wonder given what happened a week ago. yes and you are right, the pentagon has not told us origin but of course it looks like china. we know china has an extensive surveillance, drone balloons, you name it. they got it all and we know the objects are in u.s. and canadian
continuing to work closely with norad partners and u.s. partners and we will make sure we leave no stone unturned in the analysis of the data we are going to be turning. i want some clarity, i know you mentioned it was downed by u.s. and canadian fighter jets, is that correct, do i understand that? thought it was u.s. fighter jet. these assets deployed were part of the norad capabilities and they included to f-22 from the united states and f-18 s from canada. we have the cp 1402 pinpoint the location of the debris and assist with next steps in the analysis and evaluation but as i said, this was going to operation and the decision to take down the object was made by
spy satellites constantly monitor military bases in china and russia looking at u.s. troops adversaries true movements in china and russia, any movement in ukraine as well but does not appear the satellites were able to detect the last two objects to even the spy craft earlier a week ago. right now alaska is using ground-based radar to pick these up when it comes to the curvature of the earth, the ground radar can only see so f far. jon: you are a navy veteran, you know how these things go, assuming the pilot of the f-22 or 20 choose that shot down both objects, they don t just show up a couple of miles away and pulled the trigger, they do a visual inspection of these things as they fly by in most cases, do they not? they probably have a good idea of what it is we are talking about whether a balloon or a drone, you described from the pentagon as being roughly the
canadian prime minister justin trudeau says the shootdown happened over the yukon territory. in a tweet tonight trudeau said he ordered norad to take down the object that had violated canadian air space. cbs s christina ruffini is at the white house with the latest. christina, good evening. reporter: good evening, adriana. in another tweet just a little while ago trudeau says he also spoke with president biden and he thanks norad for keeping watch. he says canadian forces are going to recover and analyze the wreckage of the object but american forces still haven t recovered the wreckage of the object they shot down on friday. nor has the department of defense provided any more details as to what exactly it was. success. reporter: the f-22 fighter jet shot down the unidentified floating object about the size of a small car off the frozen coast of alaska friday. on the order of the president. that s the best description we have right now. we do not know who owns it. reporter: t
shootdown. it s notable norad says the latest mysterious object was also first detected over alaska and penetrated u.s. airspace when it was first detected. the detention u.s. air force launched two pair of f-22 fighter jets, fifth generation aircraft out of the air force base in alaska monitoring the flight over canada where they link up with their canadian counterparts. they monitored this over canada and yukon territory as you see on the screen and an american f-22 that shot down the object in airspace using a nine side wonders and they cost about half a million dollars a pop. defense secretary hoyt often called the counterpart and says in a statement it s going to be authorities in charge with the wreckage and debris, unforgiving territory over the yukon, minus