What was that? Many see white object flying over OKC metro
What was that? Many see white object flying over Oklahoma City metro
KOCO 5 Meteorologist Taylor Cox explains what may people across the OKC metro saw
Updated: 11:17 AM CDT Aug 18, 2023
*** massive balloon was spotted on Thursday here in Oklahoma. Thanks for joining me on the KFC mobile app as well as koco dot com. I’m meteorologist Taylor Cox and we got *** lot of questions about this balloon. So I did some digging and found some information here. Now, this is an aerostar project loon balloon that may sound familiar to you because it used to be *** Google research balloon several years ago, that research was discontinued and now it’s used for us military research. So the goal of this research is to increase remote connection. Now, that can include real time satellite data. It can also include getting internet connection to some remote bases. So it’s all about connecting the unconnected. Now, we did some research on where this balloon has traveled from to get to Oklahoma. It departed from Hurley, South Dakota, which is right south of Sioux Falls, Iowa. It made its way to southeastern Oklahoma City and that picture was taken near the Tinker Air Force Base. Now, if this balloon took *** direct path, we’re expecting this to travel about 580 miles. But I’m assuming this balloon did not take *** very direct path. So I think it traveled *** little over 580. We’re going to say 600 plus miles here. So, why was this balloon so easy to see up in the sky? Well, it’s massive. It’s the size of *** tennis court and it’s prepared to withstand some extreme temperatures. So it’s very, very durable in the atmosphere. It most likely traveled about 5 to 10 MPH getting down to Oklahoma. So it was moving pretty slow, which is why we got so many pictures of it over the metro. It was here for not ***, not *** short time period. As always, if you have more pictures, you can send them to our Facebook page and you can also gather more news and weather at kco dot com and the Koco mobile app.
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What was that? Many see white object flying over Oklahoma City metro
KOCO 5 Meteorologist Taylor Cox explains what may people across the OKC metro saw
Updated: 11:17 AM CDT Aug 18, 2023
Did you see that white object in the Oklahoma sky on Thursday?Many viewers reached out to KOCO 5 asking about what it was. The object could be seen in the Oklahoma City metro, including Norman, Moore and OKC.Get the latest news stories of interest by clicking here.Some said they thought it was or looked like a UFO. However, Oklahoma didn’t get visitors from another planet.KOCO 5 meteorologists Damon Lane and Jonathan Conder said the flying object was likely a high-altitude research balloon.>> Download the KOCO 5 AppThe National Weather Service in Norman said they were fairly confident it was a high-altitude balloon.”At the time many saw it, a transponder was present for a USA balloon slowly moving east to west over the east and south OKC metro looking at flight tracks online,” National Weather Service officials posted to X, formerly known as Twitter.Top Headlines 3 children, woman dead after suspected murder-suicide in OKC; suspect found with gunshot wound to head Police release names of 3 children, woman killed and suspect in OKC quadruple murder-suicide Travel goals: Triplets accomplish goal of seeing all 50 states by their 25th birthday
Did you see that white object in the Oklahoma sky on Thursday?
Many viewers reached out to KOCO 5 asking about what it was. The object could be seen in the Oklahoma City metro, including Norman, Moore and OKC.
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Get the latest news stories of interest by clicking here.
Some said they thought it was or looked like a UFO. However, Oklahoma didn’t get visitors from another planet.
KOCO 5 meteorologists Damon Lane and Jonathan Conder said the flying object was likely a high-altitude research balloon.
The National Weather Service in Norman said they were fairly confident it was a high-altitude balloon.
“At the time many saw it, a transponder was present for a USA balloon slowly moving east to west over the east and south OKC metro looking at flight tracks online,” National Weather Service officials posted to X, formerly known as Twitter.
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