The ones downed on Friday and Saturday were smaller and flying at a lower altitudes of about 40,000 feet.
Tracy Walder, former CIA officer and FBI special agent, joined LiveNOW from FOX's Josh Breslow to discuss reaction to the Chinese Spy Balloon and the latest 'object' shot down Friday over Alaska.U.S.
U.S. and Canadian authorities earlier Sunday restricted some airspace over the lake as aircraft were scrambled to intercept and try to identify the object. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told ABC's "This Week" that U.S. officials were working quickly to recover debris from all the sites. Using shorthand to describe the objects as balloons, he said the U.S military and intelligence officials were "focused like a laser" on gathering and accumulating the information, then compiling a comprehensive analysis."The bottom line is until a few months ago we didn’t know about these balloons," Schumer, D-N.Y.
In both of those incidents, the objects were flying at roughly 40,000 feet, posing a potential threat to civilian aircraft that fly at that height. After shootdown last weekend, Chinese officials said they reserved the right to "take further actions" and criticized the U.S. for "an obvious overreaction and a serious violation of international practice."
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