type of significant intelligence collecting capability or what they might have been intended for. at this white house briefing, what you did hear from national security spokesman john kirby is there is clearly a shift into a robust, all-of-government approach to get more answers, not just to the three objects shot down over the course after a three-day period but what they re seeing in the skies. the widening of the apertures, it s at least one element of why we ve seen this more over the course of the past couple days. as you noted, victor, this is unprecedented in terms of u.s. fighters taking out things from over u.s. skies. this is john kirby s response. where we go from here, i think we just don t know right now in terms of whether they needs to be threshold changes as you put it. i think it s important to take a step back here. what the president did was ordered these actions with the safety and security of the american people foremost in his mind. there were very goo
downing of another object off the northeastern coast of alaska. that was near the canadian border. nor is it clear if it is related to the chinese spy balloon shot down last saturday. any chance, any indication that we might hear from the president on this? what can you tell us? reporter: well, we are expected to see president biden in just a short while. he s hosting an event with the nation s governors. it is unclear whether he might address this issue at the top. the white house is saying that president biden and canadian prime minister justin trudeau jointly authorized this operation to shoot down what they described as an unidentified and unmanned aircraft in north american air space. i want to read you this readout from the white house which said that the two leaders spoke in, quote, an bundance of caution. that ll the recommendation of the militaries that they authorized it to be taken down. president biden authorized u.s. fighter aircraft assigned to norad to conduc
more about these objects from u.s. officials. what are they saying? reporter: u.s. officials are giving us an early read on what these objects are believed to have looked like with u.s. officials saying the object that was down over alaska is believed to be a metallic object that broke into several pieces when it was downed onto the sea ice. the waters have frozen around alaska. they re also telling us that both of the objects down over canada and over alaska are believed to have had pay loads. we don t know what s in those pay loads as phil was saying. the other thing is that all three of the objects are not believed to have propulsion, meaning they were going in the wind stream, didn t have control over the direction that wind stream was taking them or how quickly they were traveling. they re all believed to have different appearances. still a lot of questions here, bri
object. yeah. your thoughts. yeah. the pilots, they fly by very quickly. they have a few seconds to take a good look at this craft or whatever object this is. and in some cases, what is called, they report that the pilot submits to headquarters and the intelligence. when they look at that, they can determine, it is an eyewitness account of a car crash or something similar to that. when you look at that, you start piecing together. this is what they saw. and then you combine it with the actual forensic evidence of the pieces and parts that we re able to gather and then we can perhaps better ascertain whether or not there was a propulsion sy system, whether it just flew with the wind stream. are there technologies being used that we don t understand yet? all of that is possible. unlike living but possible. and the possibility that we
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