effort in ukraine. so, the conclusion is that china and russia are forming a durable partnership. and what are these objects, do you think? do you think they re just provo provocative, they re trying to needle us, surveillance, potentially weapons? we don t know. apparently they were smaller so they might be less dangerous than the balloon that entered into the usair space on january 28th from the south, which was chinese. we don t know. and as you heard from those senators who attended a briefing, i don t think the administration knows either. but one thing, i think president biden needs to address the american public. even if we don t know. and the american people need to hear it from our leader. you know, canada s justin trudeau spoke to canada about the object that was over their country. president biden needs to do the same thing. i want to get your take on how the u.s. is handling this in terms of communication with the chinese leaders.
know what are these things and why are we seeing more of them? we know this object shot over michigan s lake huron yesterday is the same one tracked over montana this weekend. of course, a very basic question here has been are these additional objects balloons, perhaps similar versions of the chinese spy craft shot down over the coast of south carolina, could they even be weather balloons? fox news jennifer griffin asked that at a briefing last night. so i m not going to categorize them as blubaugh s. we are calling them objecting for a reason. these are objects. i am not able to categorize how they stay aloft. i m not currently tracking any other objects at this point. that doesn t mean there couldn t be more at some point in the future. let s take a look back on january 28th. that large chinese flight enters airspace over the aleutian islands. shot down over the atlantic. on the 9th so friday a new object is detected over alaska. it s shot down on the 10th.
green laser beams over hawaii last month on january 28th. japanese scientists photographed green laser lights in the sky over hawaii. we now learned that they came from a chinese satellite. they re now thought to have come from that satellite and it happened on the same day the chinese spy balloon crossed in to alaskan airspace january 28th, another example of china s pervasive surveillance campaign over the u.s. the green lights over hawaii weird. thank you, jennifer. so with that, we re glad to bring in former secretary of defense, mark esper. thanks for being with us. good afternoon. martha: the wall street journal headline may say it best. what the hell is going on up there is one of the big quest that everybody is talking about right now. why would it be that we ve had this big shift do you think, from okay, let s wait and watch it go all the way across the country to shoot it down on site.
come from. what is going on here? is come from. what is going on here? is that come from. what is going on here? is that there come from. what is going on here? is that there are - here? is that there are currently more objects in the sky than they have been before or we re just hearing these things being targeted? are they actively looking for more and therefore finding more? what actively looking for more and therefore finding more? what is auoin on? therefore finding more? what is going on? that therefore finding more? what is going on? that is therefore finding more? what is going on? that is a therefore finding more? what is going on? that is a good - going on? that is a good question. the first incident we found out about was on january 28th and we found out they had been four or five believers over the us over the past couple of years. so it did not seem extraordinary. what was extraordinary was the fact that the us decided to shoot one down because it became public.
after the northern coast of alaska, as you see here and just now, this afternoon in the new con territory had that faa warning, closing some airspace over montana. it appears that was done out of an abundance of caution. what we re hearing now . 15 eagles in the u. s air force reserve were scrambled out of portland. they flew in the area and it doesn t appear like they have seen anything that s according to some officials right now, but bottom line is this most concerning to officials at the pentagon is the object today and the object yesterday able to penetrate u. s airspace over alaska that this one was shot down over canada first was detected on radar natural is already flying over alaska. that s what norad said earlier, lawrence. it s very concerning and of course, going back to that chinese spy craft that was shot down off south carolina. remember that launched from china on january 21st and spent over a week crossing the pacific. it appears that went undetected into his spotted j