we got more details, but have a listen to the white house spokesmanjohn kirby. calling this an object because that's the best description we have right now. we do not know who owns it, whether it's state—owned, or corporate—owned or privately owned. we just don't know. we don't know, as i said, state—owned, we don't know if it's state owned. and we don't understand the full purpose. we don't have any... we don't have any information that would confirm a stated purpose for this object. we do expect to be able to recover the debris, since it fell not only within our territorial space but on what we believe is frozen water. so a recovery effort will be made, and we're hopeful that it will be successful, and then we can learn a little bit more about it. after we were given details byjohn kirby, there was another press conference that was held by the pentagon, and patrick ryder, brigadier general macklin, gave a few more details about the incident. at the direction of the president of the united — at the direction of the president of the united states, _ at the direc

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national security council spokesmanjohn kirby couldn't confirm whether this second object was also ofbject because that's the best description we have right now. we do not know who owns it. whether it's state—owned or corporate—owned or privately owned, we just don't know. our north america correspondent peter bowes told us more about the incident. this remains a mystery and what's very unusual is that the white house and the pentagon should hold news conferences reallyjust within a few hours after this object being shot down, but news conferences with actually very little to share. it's clearly an attempt to be transparent about what happened and explain the reasoning that this object, about the size of a small car, was flying — if you want to say it was flying, it was floating — it was moving relatively slowly it seems at about 40,000 feet — that's about 12,000 metres, which is about the same altitude as civilian aircraft — and that was the reason given — that it posed a danger to those aircraft, that's why it was brought down. but it leaves so many, as you suggest, wider questions

national security council spokesmanjohn kirby couldn't confirm whether this second object was also oft because that's the best description we have right now. we do not know who owns it. whether it's state—owned or corporate—owned or privately owned, we just don't know. for more on this story, let's speak to our north america correspondent peter bowes. hello, peter. thank you so much forjoining me. there are so many questions still unanswered here but what more do we know about this subject that was shot down? about this sub'ect that was shot down?_ shot down? this remains a mystery — shot down? this remains a mystery and _ shot down? this remains a mystery and what's - shot down? this remains a mystery and what's very i shot down? this remains a - mystery and what's very unusual is that the white house, and the pentagon, should hold news conferences reallyjust the pentagon, should hold news conferences really just within a few hours after this object being shot down but news conferences with actually little to share. it's clearly an attempt to be transparent about what happened and ex

it was revealed by the white house spokesmanjohn kirby that around about 130 eastern time here in thealtitude object was shot down. it was travelling at 40,000 feet, which was lower than the chinese by balloon, that was floating across america last week, it was smaller in size but we're being told... they're not say it wasn't us by balloon but they're not saying either way at the moment. we're calling this an object because that's the best description we have right now. we do not know who owns it. whether it's state owned or corporate owned or privately owned, we just don't know. we don't know. state owned, we don't know if it's state owned. and we don't understand the full purpose. we don't have any information that would confirm a stated purpose of this object. after we were given details byjohn kirby there was another presser that was held by the pentagon. and patrick ryder gave a few more details about the incident. on february nine, north american aerospace command detected in object on ground radar further investigated and identified the object using fighter aircraft. the object

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today america's national security spokesmanjohn kirby told reporters it was part of a chinese intelligencedetermine that china has a high altitude balloon programme for intelligence collection. that is connected to the people's liberation army. it was operating during the previous administration, but they did not detect it. we detected it. we tracked it. and we have been carefully studying it to learn as much as we can. we know that these surveillance balloons have crossed over dozens of countries on multiple continents around the world, including some of our closest allies and partners. i'm joined now by brynn tannehill, a former naval aviator and senior technical analyst at rand. good to talk to you. we know now that this isn't et, looking to go home, or come here. what do we think these objects are? the home, or come here. what do we think these objects are?— these ob'ects are? the best guest we have on these objects are? the best guest we have on the — these objects are? the best guest we have on the object _ these objects are? the best guest we have on the object shot _ these objects

the details so far on this are vague but the white house spokesmanjohn kirby said that this unidentified was lower than the chinese spy balloon, and therefore it posed a risk to commercial aircraft, which is what they were worried about. it was spotted about 2k hours ago, but they shut it down around about 1:30am eastern time on friday, and mr kirby emphasised that it was the president, president biden, who ordered for it to be shut down —— shot down. and this is after a fighterjet approach the object and assess that it was unmanned. they will now assess the debris to find out exact there were the subject was. mr kirby said that the president ordered for the shootdown out of an abundance of caution, but of course there's a lot of political pressure on following the chinese spy balloon. republicans have criticised him for not acting more quickly, saying that he was weak on china. he was also heckled at the state of the union address about it. mr kirby said that the president had no regrets about how he handled the chinese spy balloon. the partner of missing nicola bulley says he is 100% c