U.S. government officials are claiming that a balloon aircraft detected last week in Hawaiian airspace is a 'weather balloon' with 'no signals coming from it.'
claimed the balloon was a civilian craft gone adrift, but U.S. officials insisted it was a surveillance vessel.
A balloon drifts above the Atlantic Ocean, just off the coast of South Carolina, with a fighter jet and its contrail seen below it, on Saturday, Feb. 4. U.S. government officials are saying a separate weather balloon is currently being monitored after entering U.S. airspace over Hawaii last week.In an NBC report issued in early April, several current and former U.S.
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