Unidentified balloon belongs to amateur balloonist

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Unidentified balloon belongs to amateur balloonist: US official
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I’m curious what the frequency of these types of balloons are and if it’s increasing or we’re just more focused on them. There were supposedly some tweaks to sensors last year that started to include balloons and other objects that would have been previously filtered out as noise in the data. So, they’re at least probably getting detected more often. If it’s a matter of being more focused on them, then I wonder what risks they’re concerned about.

More focused for sure. I see a good amount of people who use weather balloons as private individuals in my expirences in the amateur radio communites.

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