Police received several calls and St. George News heard from readers about some kind of balloon-like object hovering over the area Wednesday afternoon.
But no, it was not a Chinese spy balloon. And it wasn’t any weather balloon either.
A company aiming to put “Stratollites” into the stratosphere launched another of its missions from Page, Arizona, Wednesday morning. This is what people in Southern Utah spied in the skies throughout the day.
The Federal Aviation Administration identified the object with the designation N137WV and belonging to the company World View Enterprises, which according to its website is developing stratospheric craft it calls Stratollites for scientific, commercial, tourism and military uses.
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This article is published through the Utah News Collaborative, a partnership of news organizations in Utah that aim to inform readers across the state.
