Google's Rogue Internet Balloon Test Spurred UFO Reports Nationwide

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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UFOs exist

[Cederic]

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