It’s a bird. It’s a plane. Actually, it was a balloon.<\/p>\n
But the crash of one of Google’s “Loon” balloons for relaying Internet service was enough to have security forces summoned to a mountain township in central Mexico.<\/p>\n
Reports first of a plane crash, then of a skydiver plummeting to earth sent soldiers, state police and civil defense workers swarming into the remote area Thursday. They found one of the huge, jellyfish-shaped balloons that Google is using to carry antennas to deliver online access in remote areas.<\/p>\n
Veracruz state civil defense spokesman Manuel Escalera says people in the town of Texhuacan initially thought the big object that plunged to the ground was a plane crashing. Then the shape of the balloon made them think it was a parachutist.<\/p>\n
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