(CNN) — A balloon the US was tracking across the country has now left US airspace and was likely a “hobby balloon,” NORAD said in a statement Saturday.
The US is tracking a “small balloon” that was observed earlier this morning over the southwest and is drifting east, but it is not believed to pose a threat, according to a statement from North American Aerospace Defense Command.
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