Balloon on flight radar at 60000ft

Balloon on flight radar at 60000ft

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PRTVR

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7,073 posts

220 months

Sunday 14th December 2014
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Just looking around on flightradar24 , and came across what I suspect are two balloons HBAL 421/419 showing an altitude of over 60000ft traveling at 7 kts, just up from Las Vagas, not seen balloons before, there was three but one has gone missing, what do you think weather balloons. wink

eharding

13,602 posts

283 months

Sunday 14th December 2014
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Google "Project Loon".


anonymous-user

53 months

Sunday 14th December 2014
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http://www.google.com/loon/

Sounds interesting.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Loon



Edited by el stovey on Sunday 14th December 20:24

PRTVR

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7,073 posts

220 months

Sunday 14th December 2014
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I had seen the loon project, but could not see why they would fly two balloons next to each other, but it would make sense to be able to locate them if you are trying to connect to them.

wolfracesonic

6,942 posts

126 months

Sunday 14th December 2014
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'Weather ballons' yeah right, we've all heard that one before!