Fall of Google Internet Service Balloon Brings Alert in Mexican Mountain Town The Associated Press
go to original March 14, 2015

Project Loon — the Google X mission to create an internet in the sky — is almost open for business, with balloons staying aloft for as long as six months. The Verge heads to Moffett Federal Airfield to meet the team and try to pop one of the massive balloons. (The Verge)

It's a bird. It's a plane. Actually, it was a balloon. But the crash of one of Google's "Loon" balloons for relaying Internet service was enough to have security forces summoned to a mountain township in central Mexico.

Reports first of a plane crash, then of a skydiver plummeting to earth sent soldiers, state police and civil defense workers swarming into the remote area Thursday. They found one of the huge, jellyfish-shaped balloons that Google is using to carry antennas to deliver online access in remote areas.

...Veracruz authorities have notified Google to come pick up the remains of the balloon and the transmission equipment.

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