Can anyone I.D. what this is?

What type of aircraft cruises at 62000 feet at 38 kts
www.flightradar24.com...

Edit: it is now showing 3000 feet so it was probably a data glitch. Sorry. It keeps changing.

The fact that it is in the vicinity of Devonport Naval Dockyard may have some bearing.

originally posted by: CulturalResilience
What type of aircraft cruises at 62000 feet at 38 kts
www.flightradar24.com...

hmmm, be interested to know as well.
You might have found a chemtrail spraying plane.

a reply to: CulturalResilience

It could be a balloon of some sort

originally posted by: Chadwickus
a reply to: CulturalResilience

It could be a balloon of some sort

balloons would be a good platform to spray chemicals from , I bet thats it.

a reply to: clodbuster

No.

a reply to: CulturalResilience

shows down to 600 feet now. when i first looked it was 62,000.

Your link isn't working for me.
It's either a weather balloon or a Google Project Loon balloon, theres quite a few of both those types airborne over North and South America at the moment. Does FR24 not give you a description in a box when you click on it?

a reply to: ishum

Filling up with more chemical I bet, keep an eye on this one, could be on to something.

originally posted by: ThePM
Your link isn't working for me.
It's either a weather balloon or a Google Project Loon balloon, theres quite a few of both those types airborne over North and South America at the moment. Does FR24 not give you a description in a box when you click on it?

What is project loon?

a reply to: ThePM

I'm open to explanation. I use the sight all the time and I've never seen anything change so quickly or drastically as this. It probably is just a data glitch.

a reply to: clodbuster
don't think a balloon would go up and down that fast.
i'm going to go with a glitch in the system. anyone see a cat walk by twice?

It seems to have gone now.
www.flightradar24.com...

a reply to: clodbuster

Really don't want to sound like a smart arse, but...
Google it, will take you 5 seconds.
Summary: internet to remote areas, or areas with poor or damaged infrastructure provided by very high altitude balloon.

a reply to: ThePM

I never knew that. Everyday on ATS is school day. Thanks

a reply to: CulturalResilience

If you type "Balloon" into the search field of FR24. (Well, the app amyway, not sure of the website), it will list all balloons airborne and broadcasting a position via ADS-B

originally posted by: clodbuster

originally posted by: ThePM
Your link isn't working for me.
It's either a weather balloon or a Google Project Loon balloon, theres quite a few of both those types airborne over North and South America at the moment. Does FR24 not give you a description in a box when you click on it?

What is project loon?

Project Loon is to have high altitude blimps above cities and provide high-speed wireless Internet via the mobile network. It's like a giant wifi router in the sky that eliminates the need for cellphone towers. It can be used where construction of a network of base stations is too expensive to maintain (African regions where there are large numbers of climbing critters and frequent lightning storms).

a reply to: CulturalResilience

You get some fun data glitches with ADS-B. I've caught aircraft thousands of feet below sea level, to millions of feet up according to the site I was using at the time.

a reply to: Zaphod58

Does that mean that you think this one more likely to have been a glitch, than some type of balloon?

a reply to: CulturalResilience

Yeah. With an altitude change that fast it most likely was a data glitch.

originally posted by: clodbuster
a reply to: ishum

Filling up with more chemical I bet, keep an eye on this one, could be on to something.

Interesting site. Zooming out, you can see the traffic is really dense over west and central Europe more so than just about anywhere else in the world. I've never put much stock in chemtrails but if they really do exist, Europe must be ground zero.