spycraft, size of a small car, no significant payload. kirby said it was shot down over alaska, it was deemed flight issue because at 40,000 feet, you have civilian airliners flying. it did not maneuver like the chinese aircraft, he said the object was discovered last night and shot down over northern alaska, here is pat ryder. aerospace defense command detected an object and further investigated and identified the object using flighter aircraft, flying at altitude of 40,000 feet and posed reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight. u.s. northern command is beginning recovery operations now. lucas: john kirby said it is not clear which country owned that object, pat ryder said the
0 prude obey witches on the border of canada and alaska on the northern side of the continent. that s all we know, we know that it was there for the better part of 24 hours and was shot down at 1:45 east coast time today. we will continue covering breaking news. i will see you back here on fox news at can you speak to rumors that there is another chinese balloon above alaska or any other u.s. territory that the u.s. shot down? so i can confirm that the department of defense was tracking high altitude object over alaska air space in the last 24 hours. out the object was flying at altitude of 40,000 feet and posed a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight. out of abundance of caution and recommendation of the pentagon, president biden ordered the military to down the object and they did and it came inside our territorial waters, the waters right now are frozen, but it s territorial air space and waters. assigned to u.s. northern command took down the object in the last
boeing it s a lighter aircraft than some of its predecessors been competitors, and his take was that it is effectived a bit more in turbulence. not to say it s any less safe but it s less flexible than some of the other aircraft in turbulence. what are your thoughts on that given this was an airbus a-320? yeah certainly important to emphasize. of course a very safe aircraft overall. we ve all, most of us flown on it numerous times. certainly, physics matters in the end. not to oversimplify but there s no question that the heavier an aircraft is again, it s not even so much aviation as pure physics, yes, a lighter aircraft is impacted. all else being equal, more by turbulence than a heavier aircraft. again, all that within the context that this is a very safe aircraft. but, can you just clarify for viewers, we keep hearing