NORAD Says High Altitude Balloon Likely A “Hobby Balloon”

(Salt Lake City, UT) — NORAD says the high-altitude balloon they intercepted over Utah was likely a “hobby balloon.” The “small balloon” was detected at an altitude of about 44-thousand feet Friday, but NORAD determined it didn’t present any sort of threat to national security. The balloon was described as being 50 feet tall, carrying a small two-foot cube. On Saturday, NORAD made another announcement saying the balloon was monitored from the ground until it left US airspace overnight. The news comes a year after the US tracked a possible Chinese surveillance balloon for multiple days in American airspace.