was it a single f-22 or a pair that were up today for the shot? and then when the when norad sent the initial aircraft up to see, was there any sort of hailing or any type of warning given typically when an aircraft makes an incursion into an airspace, there s a whole lot of procedures that need to be followed before it would escalate to something like this. well, this was an object so it wasn t an aircraft per se. it was a twoship of f-22s but one aircraft took the shot. we ve got time for one more. i ll go to liz. really quick. when it was started to be tracked last night, were you able to tell what direction it was coming from? this was travel in a northeasterly direction when it was taken down. one more. the aircrafts that were observing it, what type of
aircraft to see, was there any type of hailing or warning given? typically when an aircraft makes an incursion into protected airspace, there s a whole lot of procedures that have to be followed before it would escalate to something like this. this was an object, right, it wasn t an aircraft, per se, and to answer your earlier question, it was a two ship of f-22s, but one aircraft took the shot. got time for one more. liz. reporter: really quick, when it was started to be tracked last night, were you able to tell what direction it was coming from? this was traveling in a northeasterly direction when it was taken down. reporter: and then one more, the aircrafts that were observing it, what type of aircrafts were those? i ll have to come back to you. i think i know but i don t want to make it up from the podium. we ll come back to you on that one. thank you very much, everybody.
original one down last week. initially they were worried about the debris field that would be expansive over miles. smaller balloon, smaller debris field on the ground. also they shot it down over water, frozen water now. that would also mean there would potentially be less likelihood of civilian casualties or injuries or infrastructure damage down below. i suspect those were three of the reasons this was taken down much faster. another thing i was interested in, and i don t have the answer to this is the fact that it was flying in a northeasterly direction. i don t know. that s something i m going to be asking questions about. remember, the one we initially learned about came over canada and entered the u.s. in idaho. it was flying south, southeasterly, just another question that i ll have about this one. general mccaffrey, i package you picked up on that as well. take us your other take aways from what we learned from the pentagon. that s sure an impressive dod spokesperson, very
shot. i have time for one more. thank you so much. really quick, when it was started to be tracked last night, were you able to tell what direction it was coming from? this was traveling in a northeasterly direction when it was taken down. and then one more, the aircraft that were observing it, what type of aircraft were those? i will have to come back to you on it, i think i know, but i don t want to make it all up on the podium. we will come back to that one. thank you very much, we appreciate it. trace: there you have the pentagon briefing, they are telling us they found an object, and what they are saying is they found this object, discovered it over u.s. territory yesterday. sometime yesterday, specifically when we don t know. we do know that at 1:45:00 p.m. east coast time today that two f-22s were tracking it and one of those f-22s shot down this object.
0 a little further detail on that, the decision was made this morning he just revealed, asked when did the president give the order to shoot it down? this morning. john: talk about burying the lede, talks about all of this other stuff, and then a reporter says, oh, by the way, did you shoot something down? oh, yes. here are the details. my gosh. martha: grade to be with you come have a great weekend. i m sandra smith. martha: elsey and monday, thank you for joining us, the story with martha continues to breaking news. it s actually a trace, good afternoon, and trace gallagher in for martha maccallum, the story is a bombshell as we can train new breaking news, about to go to the pentagon as a white house confirms a high altitude object was shot down over alaska today. though there is no confirmation on who owns the object. we don t know if it is state owned or corporate owns, we just don t know that right now, mainly because we spotted this thing at night. in a moment, repu