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This is a Federal Aviation Administration record from 2023, filed under the primary code Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon and now marked closed. On February 3, 2023, SkyWest flight SKW3756, an E75L flying from Oklahoma City to Minneapolis, told Kansas City Center that it saw a large balloon off its right side. The crew was northbound at FL370, 30 nautical miles west of RBA. They estimated the balloon was at about FL500 or higher.
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## PRIMARY CODE: UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL PHENOMENON Date: 14:58 02/03/2023 Status: Closed POD: DEN Reporting Facility: ZKC Callsign: SKW3756 Aircraft: E75L Tail Number: Operator: SKW Origin: OKC Destination: MSP New Destination: Operator Type: Commercial Paged: NO REMARKS Aircraft reported a large balloon off the right side while N bound at FL370, 30NM W of RBA. The balloon was at approximately FL500 and above.
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Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 1 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.