Hackaday Links: May 21, 2023

The reports of the death of automotive AM radio may have been greatly exaggerated. Regular readers will recall us harping on the issue of automakers planning to exclude AM from the infotainment sys…

Rising To The Occasion: A Brief History Of Crewed High Altitude Balloons

We think of human flight as a relatively modern affair, with a few claims to the first airplane all around the turn of the last century. But people flew much earlier than that by using hot air ball…

"Chinese Spy Balloon" by comedian Jim Breuer

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FOSDEM Sees Surprise Pico Balloon Event

At any vaguely-related conferences, groups of hackers sometimes come together to create an impact, and sometimes that impact is swinging something into an airspace of a neighboring country. [deadpr…

FOSDEM Sees Surprise Pico Balloon Event

At any vaguely-related conferences, groups of hackers sometimes come together to create an impact, and sometimes that impact is swinging something into an airspace of a neighboring country. [deadpr…

Answering Some Pico Balloon Questions

When the US Air Force shot down some suspected Chinese spy balloons a couple of weeks ago, it was widely reported that one of the targets might have been a much more harmless amateur radio craft. T…

The USAF (Almost) Declares War On Illinois Radio Amateurs

Every week the Hackaday editors gather online to discuss the tech stories of the moment, and among the topics this week was the balloons shot down over North America that are thought to be Chinese …

BALLOON SATELLITES THE BEST KEPT SECRET

BALLOON SATELLITES THE BEST KEPT SECRET

Hackaday Links: February 12, 2023

So, maybe right now isn’t the best time to get into the high-altitude ballooning hobby? At least in the US, which with the downing of another — whatever? — over Alaska, seems to h…

Navy pilot tells '60 Minutes' US government sees UFOs all the time: 'Every day for at least two years'

In a report from "60 Minutes," former military pilots explained some of the UFO or UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) sightings have been seen or followed for a very long time. Former Navy pilot Lt. Ryan Graves' voice is the one that was heard on...

Opinion | The inside story of how the U.S. shot down the Chinese balloon

A Pentagon official with firsthand knowledge of the event provides details about Saturday's mission, but plenty of secrets, and mysteries, remain.

US downs Chinese balloon, drawing a threat from China

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military on Saturday shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the Carolina coast after it traversed sensitive military sites across North America. China insisted the flyover was an accident involving a civilian...