A U.S. fighter jet shot down an aerial object last Saturday — an incident that could be linked to a small balloon put into the sky by a hobbyist group. U.S. officials say they're still investigating.
to follow K9YO-15. The tool also gives a forecast of a wandering balloon's likely path.
Representatives from the FBI and NORAD told NPR on Friday that they have no new information to provide, with the FBI saying that"the overall recovery operation is ongoing." But Canadian officialsthat they called off the operation after they searched the"highest probability area" without success.
"As has been widely reported, no part of the object shot down by the US Air Force jet over the Yukon territory has been recovered," the club wrote."Until that happens and that object is confirmed to be an identifiable pico balloon, any assertions or claims that our balloon was involved in that incident are not supported by facts.
One thing that might make a pico balloon hard to shoot down, Bowen said, is its small size."The entire thing that the balloon lifts is a business card-sized circuit board and two little tissue paper-thin solar cells," he said. One explanation is that the balloon's GPS pings require solar power. At higher latitudes in wintertime — like the recent path of K9YO-15 — the tiny solar panels can struggle to receive enough sunlight to power the balloon's lightweight systems.
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