Alaskan fishermen to handover yet another possible spy balloon to feds
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Published March 1, 2024
Updated March 1, 2024, 7:24 p.m. ET
Alaskan fishermen found what US officials will investigate as a potential spy balloon.
The commercial fishing vessel will bring the questionable object to shore sometime this weekend, three sources told CNN Friday.
The FBI will meet the ship when it arrives in port and take the unknown object to the agency’s lab in Quantico, Va., the outlet reported.
While the sources stressed to CNN that they do not know what the object is, the FBI said it resembles surveillance balloons used by foreign nations enough to look into further.
“The FBI is aware of debris found off the coast of Alaska by a commercial fishing vessel,” the agency told The Post Friday night.
“We will work with our partners to assist with the logistics of the debris recovery.”
The North American Aerospace Defense Command did not say if it knew of anything that had gone down in the region in recent days or weeks when reached by The Post.
Friday’s latest balloon scare comes a week after a mysterious high-altitude balloon was tracked by US agencies and later determined to be a hobbyist’s device.
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