Balloons

[Jim Metzger]

What’s with the balloons over parts of CA, NV and ID?

They have a callsigns of HBAL266, HBAL293, HBAL425 etc and airline name of Trail Lake Flying Service.

When I try and research their information I can’t find anything. Any ideas at all?

 

[Lee Armstrong]

This might help... https://loon.co

They all belong to Google

 

[creinemann]

Got one right now flying (floating) over northern Wisconsin

 

[John Mondary]

And I have one right now off the East Coast of North Carolina. I just saw it and could find nothing about it. Did some looking and talking to a friend and found out what it was. HBAL439 is the one I am tracking. FL 630.

AWESOME!

 

[Sara1tc]

I am curious why the balloons I see always say they have an altitude of 15,000+ feet? I thought they were able to go like 3000 max?

 

[John Mondary]

I've seen them well over 50,000 feet. The ones I have seen belong to one of the Alphabet companies. They are using them for testing wifi in areas where there are no towers. Or so I was told.

Try this link. https://x.company/projects/loon/

 

[Sara1tc]

Ah ha! That makes so much more sense. Thank you. So…is everyone on this app low key a conspiracy theorist or is that just me?