![]() ![]() Air Force jet over the Yukon territory has been recovered. In addition, the group wrote:Īs has been widely reported, no part of the object shot down by the U.S. The statement explained that neither the lack of transmissions from the balloon nor its projected path based on the NOAA HYSPLIT model necessarily meant it was down or in the airspace where the object was shot down on February 11. On Friday, the group published a statement on its website highlighting the lack of concrete evidence that the K9Y0 balloon was shot down. NIBBB itself, however, is pushing back on the speculation about the balloon’s fate. The member also said they were “not angry at all” about the possible downing by the military: “If they don’t know, I’d rather that they err in shooting down $100 worth of balloon stuff than have something bad go over Canada or the United States.” But the point is that it is not at all a huge reach. So, that’s that … Unless it has Mickey Mouse ears and F-22 pilots got sharp eyes and can discern that, it’s not clear exactly what you’re looking at. ![]() ![]() We know shot something down, and the thing they described as having shot down is not inconsistent with what we’re flying out there. We know that it didn’t wake up that morning. We know where the balloon was off the coast of Alaska. One unnamed NIBBB member who spoke with Politico on Friday agreed it seemed likely the balloon met its fate at the business end of an American missile: A Pentagon memo notes that the object shot down over Canada was a “small metallic balloon with a tethered payload” which fits the description of the pico balloon exactly. payload was a GPS module, Arduino, SI5351 used as a WSPR and APRS transmitter and a solar panel, all together weighing 16.4 grams. iEJFgH0HEd- StratoCat February 16, 2023Ī blog post on, a site that shares news and projects regarding software-defined radio, explains further: NIBBB said in a blog post that, as of Tuesday, K9YO-15 was officially “missing in action.”Īs pointed correctly a few days ago the USAF may have shot down an amateur radio pico balloon (callsign K9YO-15) over Canada. off the west coast of Alaska, and a popular forecasting tool - the HYSPLIT model provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) - projected the cylindrically shaped object would be floating high over the central part of the Yukon Territory on Feb. ![]() The club’s silver-coated, party-style “pico balloon” reported its last position on Feb. K9YO-15, which had been airborne nearly 124 days and was in the middle of its seventh circumnavigation of the globe, sent its last signal on February 10, just southwest of Alaska, as Aviation Week reports: Pico balloons are small antenna-and-tracker-equipped circumnavigational balloons that typically cost less than $200 to build. Since then, members of the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade, a club of high-altitude-balloon hobbyists, have been waiting to hear from K9YO-15, the group’s $100 silver mylar “pico” balloon. Air Force F-22 Raptor, acting on orders from the leaders of both Canada and the U.S., fired a $472,000 AIM-9X Sidewinder missile at a small unidentified cylindrical object flying at an altitude of 40,000 feet, resulting in a confirmed air-to-air “kill.” What NORAD still hasn’t been able to confirm, almost a week later, is what exactly was blown out of the sky on February 11. Last Saturday, high above Canada’s Yukon territory, the pilot of a $150 million U.S. ![]()
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