Military tracking high-altitude balloon flying over Western U.S.::The U.S. is tracking a small, high-altitude balloon that is drifting across the country but poses no threat to national security, the military said Friday.
…NORAD will continue to track and monitor the balloon," NORAD said in a statement. “The FAA also determined the balloon posed no hazard to flight safety.”
One U.S. official told CBS News the balloon was expected to be over Georgia by Friday night. The official said the balloon appeared to be made of Mylar and had a small cube-shaped box, about two feet long on each side, hanging below it. Its origins and purpose remain unknown.
Also the FAA: If you want to fly your DIY drone at a local park we’d really appreciate if you put a GPS transponder on it and register your name/address with us….
You can’t tell me they didn’t work out a plan the last time this happened. Deflate it slowly with a laser, tow it to a secure area with a drone and reverse engineer it. Seems like a solvable problem.
How do you ‘slowly deflate’ a balloon with a laser? Haha I feel like it’s a pop or no pop situation
It’s a mylar balloon. They don’t tear catastrophically at a small puncture.
Mylar is reflective, though.
It seems to me that if we have the tech to detect high-altitude balloons in the first place, we also have the tech to determine when they came into our airspace. A balloon launch from US soil will be easily distinguishable from one that came across the ocean or across the border.
They didn’t say anything about where it came from, just that it showed up
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