By Ben Aulakh of the Greymouth
Star
4:03
PM Thursday Jul 17, 2014
File photo / AP
Sightings of numerous objects in
the skies high above Hokitika and Greymouth yesterday appear to have been
explained - by internet giant Google.
Google spokeswoman Annie Baxter
said it released another batch of wireless internet wifi balloons as part of
Project Loon this week.
The wifi balloons are designed to
provide a network of internet coverage in places where reliable internet is
hard to come by, in a worldwide trial above the South Island.
Scientists based at Hokitika
Airport for the past two months as part of an atmospheric study of jetstreams
over the Southern Alps, said they had released one weather balloon around the
same time as witness reports.
Project scientist and group
leader Bill Brown said it could have been visible from Greymouth.
By Ben Aulakh of the Greymouth
Star
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