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In the early 1970s, a project called “Seek Skyhook” was implemented at Cudjoe Key. The idea was based on a Civil War-era tactic of placing an observer in a tethered hot air balloon. Floating high in ...

The Office of Naval Research, the National Science Foundation and the University of Chicago organized Operation Skyhook 60, which envisioned sending two huge balloons, each more than 400 ft.

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balloons soar higher & higher (maximum height ... particularly when reflecting light rays from its underside, a Skyhook looks exactly like a big saucer. It was a Skyhook, said Liddell, that ...

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