U.S. Officials Investigate 'Large Balloon' Found by Fishermen Near Alaska's Aleutian Chain
Another high-altitude balloon with a payload has been found in Alaska. This time it was caught in the nets of an fishing vessel in the Bering Sea, near the Aleutian Islands, in late February. The captain notified the Coast Guard, who asked him to store the the materiel on board until docking in Dutch Harbor, according to a report by KUCB in Unalaska.
Reporters there witnessed “a bundle of parachute-like material being loaded onto a Coast Guard C-130 airplane on March 2.” The balloon was ...
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