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Message: <blockquote data-quote="p238shooter" data-source="post: 4375779" data-attributes="member: 24583"><p>Many balloons were released for taking weather readings in the past, upper wind speeds, barometric pressures, temperatures, etc. most of that can be determined by more advanced radar in today's world.    Ham Radio guys release balloons with transmitters for practice of tracking them, but most of them are recovered by hams unless they are confiscated by the Government after being shot down by F-16s which happened recently.  Proper FAA paperwork had been filed prior to release by the ham operators, but that information was not  passed through the system on that one.   It was about the same time as the China balloon was tracked coming out of Canada crossing our nation before it was shot down fiasco.</p></blockquote><p></p>