down. of course, the question tonight is, where is that exactly and when will it come down? by the way, how will it come down? the a spy balloon. the pentagon refusing to say whether they are considering shooting it down what looks like a chinese spy balloon floating high above some sensitive sites in this country. but officials telling cnn they haven t ruled it out either. meanwhile, this balloon, which is the size, by the way, of three school buses, is just meandering along thousands of feet up in the sky. it was spotted twice on wednesday over montana and twice over missouri today, including in colombia, missouri, this very often-afternoon where this exclusive footage was shot. it s flying about 60,000 feet up, 18,000 feet higher than a commercial airplane does. and now the pentagon says there is another chinese spy balloon that is currently somewhere over latin america. we will talk about what the heck is going on in the skies tonight. here to help us figure all this out,
That seems to imply destroying it. but you are saying it would be more prudent from the intelligence standpoint to have it come down, to have it intact to study and know exactly what it is, what it s been transmitting and the capabilities? exactly right. you want a controlled descent. if you are lucky you get into the data stream that controls the balloon and make it land on your command, not on the command of the controller in china. and when you do that, you bring it down easily. you can examine it. you can say this is what these pieces do. this is how it works. this is where these things you are reverse engineering it. i wonder if that s why we heard from the brigadier general who talked about the balloon having the ability to maneuver but wasn t specific beyond that about who it was and how it s done. maybe the idea of partially the unknown. maybe partially not wanting to divulge too much information. as you are talking about it, obviously, just the jet stream we have already
this week. despite the way iran s ambassador to the u.n. reacted to our question last night, they might be sharing america s top technology with china. let s go outfront. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight top secret american technology in the hands of a sworn adversary. at this hour, iran has the cia s rq-170 drone. last night th,e ambassador said iran captured the drone intact and judging by the images of iranian state tv, that seems to be true. sources at the pentagon say that this does look like america s top stealth drone. the rq-170. our question tonight, what is iran doing with this drone? the big fear is they might be sharing its most important technology, the ability to fly undetected by radar, with china. experts today saying the flights between beijing and tehran likely were booked up this week to see the drone. it might be a case of he who doth protest too much, because here s how iranian ambassador to the united nations reacted when i asked him if iran was
tell us what america is doing to get him back and the bottom line on that top secret classified drone seized by iran earlier this week. despite the way iran s ambassador to the u.n. reacted to our question last night, they might be sharing america s top technology with china. let s go out front. i m erin burnett. out front tonight top secret american technology in the hands of a sworn adversary. at this hour iran has the cia s rq-170 drone. last night the ambassador said iran captured the drone intact and judging by the images of iranian state tv, that seems to be true. sources at the pentagon say that this does look like america s top stealth drone. the rq-170. our question tonight. what is iran doing with this drone? the big fear is they might be sharing its most important technology, the ability to fly undetected by radar, with china. experts today saying the flights between beijing and tehran likely were booked up this week to see the drone. it might be a case of he w
despite the way iran s ambassador to the u.n. reacted to our question last night, they might be sharing america s top technology with china. let s go outfront. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight top secret american technology in the hands of a sworn adversary. at this hour, iran has the cia s rq-170 drone. last night the ambassador said iran captured the drone intact and judging by the images of iranian state tv, that seems to be true. sources at the pentagon say that this does look like america s top stealth drone. the rq-170. our question tonight, what is iran doing with this drone? the big fear is they might be sharing its most important technology, the ability to fly undetected by radar, with china. experts today saying the flights between beijing and tehran likely were booked up this week to see the drone. it might be a case of he who doth protest too much, because here s how iranian ambassador to the united nations reacted when i asked him if iran was showing the