welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. in the last hour, the pentagon has confirmed that they are seeing reports of a balloon transiting over latin america. brigadier general patrick ryder says that the us department of defense now assesses that it is another chinese surveillance balloon. this comes after washington accused beijing of acting irresponsibly after a first such balloon was detected over the united states. secretary of state antony blinken postponed a much anticipated trip to beijing over the incident. china says that balloon was a civilian airship which had deviated from its planned route. in a moment, i ll get the latest from our correspondent on the second balloon sighting. first, this report from gordon correra. i.have no idea what this thing is. a strange object in the sky, filmed by a member of the public in rural montana. and for those of you who think this mightjust be the moon, it is not the moon, the moon is off to my right
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to let it continue going on. leland, you know what s so troubling about this is there aren t any winners in this. you say this is like a super bowl party. whether the officers were charged or not charged, you know, there are really no winners, disheartening to see people celebrating either way there is no question there is a level of sadness here that exists. i m not sure where there are winners. i think what you are seeing is that the amount of anger that existed if it was a balloon it popped. seeing same energy being exerted in a different way out here on the streets it