This process was the first to track the balloon itself, not just its expected path based on weather projections. Jan. 15 The balloon is first detected off the coast of Hainan, where, U.S ...

The US is tracking a suspected Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon over the continental United States, defense officials said on Thursday, a discovery that risks adding further strain to ...

The US intelligence community has developed a method to track China’s fleet of surveillance balloons that was only discovered within the last year, six people familiar with the matter tell CNN ...

[David] notes that using some pretty simple gear, he could track down weather balloons. The U.S. National Weather Service sends up a large number of radiosondes attached to balloons twice a day.

She said one balloon made it to near Pittsburgh. Here’s a track of a balloon from Gaylord on a particularly windy day. The U.S. isn’t the only country that launches weather balloons for ...

CBS News first reported that the military was tracking the balloon as it traversed the Western U.S. on Friday. NORAD, the military command responsible for air defense over the U.S. and Canada ...

It’s pretty easy to take a balloon, fill it up with helium, and send it up in to the upper atmosphere. It’s much harder to keep track of it and recover it when it falls back to Earth.

The system will be a reusable stratospheric balloon beacon that will ascend then initiate a free-fall descent and undergo landing, with an on-ground mobile operator tracking and following the beacon’s ...