The UFO Phenomenon

Google balloon causes UFO scare in Colombia

By T.K. Randall
March 16, 2017 ·  4 comments

Project Loon aims to provide Internet access to rural areas. Image Credit: YouTube / Project Loon The 'UFO', as it turned out, was actually part of Google's Project Loon - an ongoing endeavour which aims to extend Internet connectivity to people living in rural and remote areas.

"We all thought it was a UFO or the remains of a spacecraft," one of the locals told a reporter.

Objeto estraño cae a nuestro pueblo desde el cielo aparentemente es un satelite. @Ondas1470 @alaluzpublica1 @NoticiasRCN @CaracolRadio pic.twitter.com/yA51r5nYoX

— San Luis Tolima (@san_luis_tolim) March 13, 2017

Under normal circumstances, Google's Loon balloons can be found positioned high up in the stratosphere at an altitude of around 18km.

The project's name "Loon" is based on the fact that even Google itself believes that attempting to provide broadband to over five billion people in rural areas is an almost impossible task.

Source: BBC News | Comments (4)

Tags: Google, Loon, UFO