GOOGLE PROJECT LOON

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GOOGLE PROJECT LOON

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Currently over Brisbane at 63,000 feet, visible on flightradar24 using ads-b hex id 777778
http://www.flightradar24.com/357ff29
http://cqplanespotting.blogspot.com.au/ ... oject.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Loon


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Ps Thanks to Matthewn1983 for putting me onto this
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Looks like it is being controlled remotely - currently only 700 odd feet near Calbooture
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noticed that on sat night clicked on the plane and came up as a helium balloon
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Not at 700'. That would be spurious info by the ADSB receiver. The balloon constantly above 60000'
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Should be visible high over brisbane at sunset, provided the sky is clear.
Currently above upper mount gravatt at its usual 63535 feet or by my calculations a little over 19.5km up.
Not sure about the erroneous height .... Just that was what was being displayed at 1am today. Displaying 700ft again at 2.30pm today - obviously wrong.
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my virtual radar has it showing at 67800ft for a fair while now, sadly it wont show a track without a callsign but i can see it there
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Has anybody got a visual on the helium balloon?
According to the tracking on flightradar it is doing loops over the sunshine coast.
Probably only visible sunrise/sunset

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/05/googl ... australia/

The only suspicious aspect of this exercise is that the source "T-MLAT3" is also appearing in New Zealand
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