MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video) - 02-03-2023-223722
MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)
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🗓️ 3 February 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Things to you at home for joining us. |
| 0:01.9 | As you are probably aware, there is a balloon in the sky. |
| 0:06.0 | It is a big balloon about the size of two school buses |
| 0:08.9 | according to the Pentagon. |
| 0:10.5 | It traveled from China to the Aleutian islands of Alaska |
| 0:13.5 | late last week through Northwest Canada |
| 0:15.8 | until finally being spotted somewhere |
| 0:17.8 | over Montana on Wednesday. |
| 0:20.4 | Chinese officials today said that the balloon |
| 0:22.3 | was a civilian airship used mainly for weather research |
| 0:25.8 | and that it had just innocently been blown off course. |
| 0:29.2 | But the Pentagon says that they are confident |
| 0:31.0 | that it is a surveillance balloon, you know, for spying, |
| 0:35.5 | flying at about 60,000 feet above ground |
| 0:37.9 | and moving eastward across the continental US. |
| 0:41.3 | The Pentagon has yet to confirm the balloon's latest sightings, |
| 0:44.7 | sighting, but the National Weather Service in Kansas City |
| 0:47.4 | in Kansas City, Missouri said earlier |
| 0:49.9 | that they have several reports of a large balloon |
| 0:53.0 | on the horizon and that the balloon is not one of their |
| 0:57.4 | weather balloons. |
| 0:58.8 | Enabling Kansas, Senator Roger Marshall said |
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