{"id":11310,"date":"2024-02-24T23:58:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T18:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/24\/military-tracks-high-altitude-balloon-over-u-s\/"},"modified":"2024-02-24T23:58:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T18:28:04","slug":"military-tracks-high-altitude-balloon-over-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/24\/military-tracks-high-altitude-balloon-over-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Tracks High-Altitude Balloon Over U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_82\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>The\u00a0U.S. military\u00a0is tracking a high-altitude balloon over the Western United States, two officials confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn close coordination with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) detected a small balloon at an altitude varying between 43,000-45,000 ft,\u201d North American Aerospace Defense Command Public Affairs said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe balloon was intercepted by NORAD fighters over Utah, who determined it was not maneuverable and did not present a threat to national security. NORAD will continue to track and monitor the balloon. The FAA also determined the balloon posed no hazard to flight safety. NORAD remains in close coordination with the FAA to ensure flight safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The origin of the balloon and its purpose are not yet known, but according to the military it is not determined to be a threat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/military-tracks-high-altitude-balloon-over-u-s\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0U.S. military\u00a0is tracking a high-altitude balloon over the Western United States, two officials confirmed. \u201cIn close coordination with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) detected a small balloon at an altitude varying between 43,000-45,000 ft,\u201d North American Aerospace Defense Command Public Affairs said. \u201cThe balloon was intercepted by NORAD fighters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}