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Speaker 1: And Amanda gam Nation.

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Speaker 2: Well, it seems like every time you watch the news,

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Speaker 2: at the moment you see a giant white balloon floating

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Speaker 2: around in the sky, moments later it's shot down by missile.

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Speaker 2: I know you're playing that music because you want to

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Speaker 2: make it ugity boogie a UFO. But a UFO is

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Speaker 2: only a UFO until it's identified, and then you know

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Speaker 2: that it might be a Chinese weather balloon. It could

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Speaker 2: be a Chinese spy balloon, but it's not. It's not

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Speaker 2: a UFO. Then it's it's identified, so it's a balloon.

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Speaker 2: So that's a Well, we're going to play something appropriate.

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Speaker 2: Then you should have said that before. What have you got?

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Speaker 2: I don't have Ryan that's better. Who is sending them?

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Speaker 2: Is it China? Is it the US? Is it Aliens?

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Speaker 2: To give us some insight? Seven News US correspondent Tim

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Speaker 2: Lester joins us Now, Hello, Tim, Hello was Tim? What's

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Speaker 2: going on? Why are there so many of them? And

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Speaker 2: have they all come from the same place? And are

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Speaker 2: they all the.

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Speaker 1: Same No answers to any of the above, Amand I'd

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Speaker 1: say go back to the googy boogie year because the

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Speaker 1: three shootdowns in the last three days are all unidentified.

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Speaker 1: Not only that, the US Defense Secretary has spoken this

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Speaker 1: morning and he's admitted there all three have been shot

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Speaker 1: down in areas that are either so under ice or

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Speaker 1: so deep in winter, or underwater in the case of

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Speaker 1: the Great Lakes One, that it's going to be a

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Speaker 1: long time before recovery teams actually get pieces of these aircraft.

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Speaker 1: So don't be in a rush on this. They're going

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Speaker 1: to stay unidentified for a while.

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Speaker 2: Because they've got the whole you know, that area of

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Speaker 2: roswell stuff. Yeah, so they've got the aliens. They had

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Speaker 2: admitted to that, didn't they What do you mean they

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Speaker 2: got the aliens? Didn't they say? I think of independence days.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes recently recently the military have come out and said

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Speaker 2: there are cases of things that we've seen that we

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Speaker 2: can't explain.

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Speaker 1: And the military, the military here in the US was

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Speaker 1: asked last night, might they be extra terrestrial from another world?

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Speaker 1: And they won't rule that out. They even admitted that

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Speaker 1: they couldn't be sure how these aircraft fly and what

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Speaker 1: keeps them aloft. The part of the problem is the

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Speaker 1: US jets that they've been sending up to twenty and

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Speaker 1: forty thousand feet to check out These aircraft travel so

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Speaker 1: much faster than the aircraft, which it seems perhaps just

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Speaker 1: drifting with wind currents, that they can't really see them.

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Speaker 1: They can't stop long enough to see them, or they

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Speaker 1: can't stop at all. Of course, they just fly by them.

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Speaker 1: So the aircraft remain a pretty much total mystery and

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Speaker 1: are likely to stay that way.

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Speaker 2: Didn't the Chinese shoot down one as well?

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Speaker 1: Well? China this morning has come out and said that

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Speaker 1: it believes that ten US balloons have been in its

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Speaker 1: airspace recently, essentially doing a pot calling the kettle black

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Speaker 1: on the US. Now, the White House, quite dismissive and

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Speaker 1: grumpy at the suggestion, said that it's nonsense. It hasn't

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Speaker 1: been anywhere near US airspace with balloons, and then quite

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Speaker 1: condescendingly added that it didn't need balloons to conduct surveillance.

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Speaker 1: Its satellites are doing that quite happily. Yeah, very much.

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Speaker 1: It's interesting. So there's a bit of a bit of

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Speaker 1: a tiff going on at that level. But the US

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Speaker 1: flatly denies ever sending any balloons into China's airspace because

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Speaker 1: when we.

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Speaker 2: Say balloons, we picture maybe something that's relatively small, but

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Speaker 2: even those solar pals on the bottom apparently the size

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Speaker 2: of several buses, so it's massive.

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Speaker 1: It were three school buses, was the routine description of

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Speaker 1: the of the payload under the balloon. Right. The balloon

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Speaker 1: itself was about sixty meters tall, so it was a

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Speaker 1: giant balloon, but it was operating above where air traffic

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Speaker 1: typically is. These three latest objects that have been shot down,

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Speaker 1: two of them were at forty thousand feet and one

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Speaker 1: at twenty thousand feet. Whilst it's fairly rare well, in fact,

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Speaker 1: commercial aircraft do get to forty thousand feet, they're regularly

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Speaker 1: at thirty thirty five thousand. So the objects that they've

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Speaker 1: shot down in the last three days are getting right

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Speaker 1: into air traffic space, and yet we're not identified. So

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Speaker 1: there is a real safety threat with them.

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Speaker 2: If we were going to be invaded by aliens, this

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Speaker 2: is probably how it would begin. By balloons, well, just

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Speaker 2: by stuff we can't identify. Something's going to take more

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Speaker 2: of them that seen from up. I don't know. Maybe

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Speaker 2: it's a party planner of let let the balloons go.

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Speaker 1: Has anyone thought about that they just could have got away?

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Speaker 2: Sure? Well, Tim, will you keep us up to date?

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Speaker 2: Will you keep us up to date with all the

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Speaker 2: lass bits and pieces.

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Speaker 1: And if we have new overlords, Tim, can you can

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Speaker 1: you point us out to who they asked her, whose

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Speaker 1: bum Amanda can kiss?

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Speaker 2: Whose alien pot? I'd like to know, Tim.

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Speaker 1: Hand.

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Speaker 2: She'll be happy to round up Dissonance.

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Speaker 1: Into our new overlords. Thank you, Tim, Pleasure than you

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Speaker 1: can stay.

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Speaker 2: Up to date with the leaders from us, from the US. Oh, Brendan,

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Speaker 2: you let it all down. I'm going to dub you

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Speaker 2: into our new overlords for starters. Take him, please say

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Speaker 2: we don't want him