that were shot down earlier. if it does connect at all. those are the kind of questions that i have right now. i also note one other thing, if i may. and that s the low the relatively low altitude that this thing was flying at. 20,000 feet is absolutely within the realm of commercial aircraft. and that s extremely dangerous from a commercial aviation perspective. and the skies over michigan are fairly well populated. it s definitely something that needed to be taken care of. and juliette, i want to get your reaction to this. another day, another shoot down of a so-called object. so, let s i want to put this in the categories of what we know and what we don t know. so what we know is that since the chinese balloon incident a week ago and learning of other infiltrations by the chinese of the balloon in years past, essentially norad, north com and other agencies opened up the aperture of what they were
what do you think the top brass are talking about right now? they re clearly reacting to this situation? is it possible to get ahead of this now or are they going to continue to react? i think in some ways they re reactive. it s kind of our national past time is to be reactive to events like this. they re trying hard to refine their processes. and we see part of that in the way that north com has responded to these things, much more frequent, much more engaged, clearly everyone from the radar operators to the fighter pilots is doing what they can to make sure that they know what s going on and that they take care of the issue based on the president s direction. so, that s something where they re trying to be very proactive. and i think they re trying to manage the public expectations at this particular point. and that, of course, is all of us, a very tough challenge. well, colonel cedric leighton, juliet kei m, thank you so much. an f-16 was ordered by
new play book not just focusing on asia pacific, but the globe and able to penetrate u.s. air space. i m assuming it is chinese air balloon, if it is not or it is russia and i m not offer that as fact at all, we have to think about the consequences of its origin first and work backwards on this incident. neil: no one owned up to being theirs, it could have happened, we just don t know. thank you and thank you for your service to this country, sir richard newton. senator sullivan, were you aware of this, senator? i was briefed this morning from north com, northern commander was briefed me and i believe senator mccowski and the governor and identified this latest object over the sovereign
first identified when it flew into u.s. airspace, is that correct? or was it identified before? it was detected yesterday, and again norad sent up aircraft to observe it, see what it was, and the decision was made to take it down. do you have any information whether this object flew over any other sovereign nations or countries? i do not. do not. i have time for a few more. let me go to joe. question about the recovery effort. i think you had mentioned at the outset that it was going to involve rotary wing aircraft. that s because it landed on ice as opposed to water, that s why there s watercraft being used is it? yeah, joe. we ll get you more information on that front. again, this happened just a short while ago, and so according to north com, these are the assets that were being used to go out and do the initial recovery. but we ll have more information
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