When Google began testing its Wi-Fi enabling balloons, the company probably wasnt expecting to cause panic in New Zealand. The Wall Street Journal writes that the countrys emergency services were contacted on Friday after one of the tech giants balloons was mistaken for a crashing plane. Google has confirmed that one of its balloons had indeed landed in the sea. The Wall Street Journal was later told that it was difficult to keep balloons in one place because of wind conditions. Revealed last year, Googles Project Loon involves deploying hundreds of these balloons in an attempt to provide Internet coverage to remote locations throughout the world.
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