the department of defence to develop options to take down the blue safety over our territorial waters while closely monitoring its path and intelligence collection activities. this action was to cash taken in coordination and with the simple support of the canadian government and we thank them. the reason why they are thinking cap motor is because you may remember it spent a bit of time over canada over to montana, and that is where those sensitive security sites in the us were, and that is where with this chinese surveillance balloon. and thatis chinese surveillance balloon. and that is when this news went global, and since then, we have been tracking it heading and now no more, now it is in the waters, us waters just off south carolina. if now it is in the waters, us waters just off south carolina. now it is in the waters, us waters just off south carolina. if you were here earlier. just off south carolina. if you were here earlier, my just off south carolina. if you w
successfully brought down the high altitude surveillance balloon launched by and belonging to the people s republic of china. so, those are the latest lines coming from the reuters news agency. now, i wonder if we can see again the moment that it was shut down. now, these pictures do need some kind of explanation, you can see it is pretty small, this i suppose it supports the idea that this balloon was very, very high up in the sky, which it was, and hence the footage of it is not perfect, but these are the pictures that we are told are the pictures that we are told are the moment that it was shut down or shortly afterwards, and then the balloon heading down towards the ocean there, so those are the crucial moments. right, let s take in a look at the airspace, shall we? let s take a check in with those
the seal was not visible? that wasn t so much visible for - the seal was not visible? trust wasn t so much visible for me, i am about 15 minutes inland from the coast, but i do no that some people on the coast got may be a better view of that part, and i do know that some of the local meteorologists were talking about what might go in the ocean that the military would have to retrieve it. yes, they will have to go in a fish it out. so you saw the jet line up, take a shot and you saw the white balloon kind of shimmy down to the sky but then you couldn t see it any further hit the seal anything like that? ., . ., further hit the seal anything like that? ., , that? no, couldn t see it hit the sea but deftly that? no, couldn t see it hit the sea but deftly saw that? no, couldn t see it hit the sea but deftly saw it that? no, couldn t see it hit the sea but deftly saw it falling - that? no, couldn t see it hit the | sea but deftly saw it falling apart and floating down. mas sea bu
of the answers there hoping for, some close from the data, from that balloon, potentially could point to some of those answers. now, as i mentioned earlier, we have been speaking to experts over the last couple of hours, trying to get into some of those questions and some of those details. dr withington, who we heard from earlier, he also said the balloon could be out there for multiple reasons. balloon could be out there for multiple reasons. espionage was a ossible multiple reasons. espionage was a possible 80- multiple reasons. espionage was a possible 80. the multiple reasons. espionage was a possible 80. the other multiple reasons. espionage was a possible 80. the other possibly i multiple reasons. espionage was a | possible 80. the other possibly tea is the balloon has been used to test what their reaction and behaviour of us air defence is like. usually, how you do this is you fly a lot of military aircraft, usually quite provocatively towards the country you are intereste
that was launched by, i m balloon that was launched by, i m quoting, belonging to the people s republic of china. just to bring you a couple of those lines again this is directly from the pentagon. was brought down above us territorial waters. president biden gave his authorisation to take down the surveillance balloon as soon as the mission could be accomplished without undue risk to american lives under the balloon s path. this is coming out to the point that i was just mentioning. us military commanders had determined to down the balloon pose an undue risk to people across a wide area due to the size and altitude.