Pilots from several commercial airliners reported seeing a Chinese spy balloon while crossing through airspace roughly 50 miles northeast of Kansas City, Missouri.
About an hour of air traffic radio communication between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. central time heard pilots and air traffic controllers based in Olathe, Kansas, in charge of a large swath of airspace around the Kansas City area.
A review of flight paths identified several commercial and cargo aircraft in the airspace during the time when the balloon was in the area. As pilots continued to confirm the location of the balloon, traffic turned to the source of what was described by controllers as the “derelict balloon.” The pilots onboard American Airlines Flight 392 between Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Phoenix were also among those who asked controllers about the balloon.
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