fighter jets to work with canada to bring down the kroft. the statement also reveals that the u.s.ted the object over alaska late friday night, and continued to monitor it as it crossed canadian airspace. now, at any moment, we expect an update from canadian authorities about the situation. joining me until we get that visual out, nbc's dan de luce live in washington. dan, i ask you to flag us, as you had new reporting, rolling in what we've learned about this incident. >> i think we've learned a few more details that i think we're gonna hopefully learn a lot in this press conference in canada. we did learn that they spotted it friday evening. that is significant. that indicates that it was not necessary moving that fast if it took all this time for it to cross into northern canada. and then, also, the u.s. aircraft took a close look at it, according to norah add. now, we're not hearing it description or seeing an image of what they saw, but it begs the question what they saw that led them to decide both the canadian prime minister and president biden to take down that object. it i