Gizmodo: One Mexican Cartel ‘Drone’ Near El Paso Airspace Was Actually Party Balloon: Report

[ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org]

Gizmodo: One Mexican Cartel ‘Drone’ Near El Paso Airspace Was Actually Party Balloon: Report

Mexican Cartel 'Drones' Near El Paso Airspace Were Actually Party Balloons: Report

FAA initially ordered the closure of airspace over El Paso for 10 days before backtracking.

Gizmodo (gizmodo.com)

[ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org]

"“The threat has been neutralized, and there is no danger to commercial travel in the region. The restrictions have been lifted and normal flights are resuming,” Duffy continued."

#aviation #partyballoon #elpaso

[the@ultracrepidarian.mysteriar.ch]

@ai6yr

The threat has been neutralized

So they literally popped a balloon, or what?

[driusan@doomscroller.social]

@the@ultracrepidarian.mysteriar.ch @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org It's kind of hard to follow as a developing story but if I understand it correctly the US army used lasers to neutralize the threat of party balloon incursions from Mexico.

[zazzoo@mstdn.ca]

@ai6yr Let me guess: 99 red balloons?