Summary: Google will soon be launching Project Loon, a fleet of high altitude balloons that could provide Internet to people in hard to reach areas. The huge balloons are incredibly thin (.3in) and will fly in the Earth's Stratosphere (double the height at which planes fly). The balloons are predicted to stay afloat for 100 days before landing and being picked up. The balloons will be carefully programmed and monitored to keep them in the correct area of sky by manoeuvring them up and down to catch the right air currents. The project will be tested first in New Zealand before progressing to more remote areas.
BBC News
UPDATE
Recently, some of these test flights have been mistaken for UFOs. Check out the articles below.
Live Science
Wired
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