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This is a 2023 Federal Aviation Administration report, filed under the Department of Transportation, logging an unidentified aerial phenomenon on 3 February 2023. The crew of American Airlines flight AAL769, an A321 flying from Chicago O'Hare to Phoenix, reported a large balloon off the right side of the aircraft. The plane was westbound at FL320, 30 nautical miles west of RBA, and the balloon was at about FL500 or higher. Denver Center filed the report, and the case is marked closed.
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## PRIMARY CODE: UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL PHENOMENON Date: 14:35 02/03/2023 Status: Closed Callsign: AAL769 POD: DEN Aircraft: A321 Reporting Facility: ZDV Tail Number: Operator: AAL Origin: ORD Destination: PHX New Destination: Operator Type: Commercial Paged: NO REMARKS Aircraft reported a large balloon off the right side while W bound at FL320, 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.