Google's Rogue Internet Balloon Test Spurred UFO Reports Nationwide

Posted by timothy on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @01:25AM from the what's-the-frequency-richard dept.

Jason Koebler (3528235) writes "The hardest thing about Google X's Project Loon hasn't been the engineering challenge of beaming high-speed internet down to the far-flung corners of the world: It's trying to control all those freaking balloons. Project lead Rich DeVaul just revealed the 'Falcon 11,' a 120-foot long transparent mylar balloon made in-house at the secret Google X lab that spurred UFO reports nationwide after the company lost track of it: 'We tracked the balloon by outsourcing to the internet UFO community, it drifted all the way across the country,' he said."

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reading comprehension? or network "news"? by Thud457 · 2014-05-20 01:29 · Score: 4, Funny

What I took from that was " Google terrorizes nation with gigantic UFO "

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1. Re:reading comprehension? or network "news"? by NotDrWho · 2014-05-20 01:48 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  As much as Google loves to fuck us, I'm surprised they didn't deploy anal probes too.
  
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UFOs exist by Cederic · 2014-05-20 01:34 · Score: 5, Insightful

Any unidentified flying object is a UFO. I just despair at people immediately assuming that means it's extraterrestial in nature.