administration has talked about it, you know, it s not a balloon. it s an object. it s an unidentified flying object. that s how we always characterize things from mars. katie: not an alien though. steve: this is why the new york post has this on their cover take me to your leaders. white house bumbling to insist it s not aliens. apparently the new york times has got some great reporting on in this morning. this is something. a sign of how closely the united states was monitoring the balloon program and that s what the senators are going to find out about. we have been monitoring it for years. and we changed the filters and that s how we were able to figure out a couple of them flew our our. brian: montana resident. next ficialt. steve: during the trump administration. john bolton apparently is one of the guys from the trump administration who is going to take the briefing. but, apparently, u.s. officials say they began tracking the spy