Officials haven’t confirmed when the balloon was found but reporters with KUCB saw a bundle of parachute-like material being loaded onto a Coast Guard C-130 airplane on Saturday.
Military personnel at the Tom Madsen Airport in Unalaska load what appears to be a balloon onto a U.S. Coast Guard C-130 transport on March 2, 2024.
Commercial fishermen off the coast of Alaska found what the U.S. Department of Defense is calling a “large balloon with payload” and delivered it to the U.S. Coast Guard in Dutch Harbor. The balloon was sent to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage for further investigation.The incident comes about a year after a large balloon, which U.S. officials said was launched from China for intelligence-gathering purposes,According to the Department of Defense, the latest balloon was caught in the nets of an unnamed American fishing vessel. The Coast Guard asked the fishermen to store the materiel on board until docking in Dutch Harbor.
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