Object shot down over Alaska, plus, ‘Overtime with Bill Maher’
Laura Coates Live
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Is It a Lighter Than Air Object?
It was flying at roughly 40,000 feet so how dangerous was that to commercial airlines? Well again until we know what it is it's hard to assess that risk. I don't think it would cause any structural damage airplanes are made to go through the air at you know five or six hundred miles an hour and not causing any damages. We're going to have to find a way to more cheaply down these or at least neutralize these devices when they come into our airspace like we used to have. The problem that you have is you don't have aircraft that can fly as high as the Chinese balloon and you don't has aircraft that can really on a routine basis go after these kinds of
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