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Did a Weather Balloon, Not a Mysterious Space Object, Strike That United Airlines Flight?


Slashdot reader joshuark shares this report from SFGate: The mystery object that struck a plane at 36,000 feet is likely not space debris, as some speculated, but rather a Silicon Valley test project gone wrong... WindBorne Systems, a Palo Alto startup that uses atmospheric balloons to collect w...

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