The Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade's balloon K9YO went missing near where a F-22 fighter jet shot down an unidentified object.
In this image taken from a video shot by Tom Medlin on June 11, 2022, a pico balloon, which costs about $12 and is about 32 inches in diameter, floats in the air near Collierville, Tenn. Medlin, owner of the Amateur Radio Roundtable podcast, believes a similar balloon is what the U.S. military shot down over the Yukon recently. Hobbyists typically fly the balloons for fun.
The Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade, a hobbyist group that launches hydrogen-filled, radio-equipped “pico” balloons and tracks them as they fly across the world, has declared one of its balloons “Missing in Action.”The balloon stopped transmitting signals when it had been set to fly near the area in Canada where a military fighter jet shot down an unidentified object last week.
It had been declared missing several times before since its Oct. 10 launch, once for as long as 30 days, and it’s not unusual for time to elapse between location transmissions, the NIBBB said in a statement posted on its website.
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