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From the **London Free Press**:
> An appeal is going out to the Keystone state after a London high school class found out weather balloons can get away on you.
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> Theirs — part of a high-flying experiment they thought would travel about 100 kilometres, 150 km tops — drifted twice as far, crossing the Canada-U.S. border and coming down in a mountain valley in Pennsylvania, 300 kilometres away.
[*Read the full article here*](https://lfpress.com/2017/11/09/beal-science-project-succeeds--maybe-too-much--as-weather-balloon-floats-into-us)
[*Read the full article here*](https://lfpress.com/2017/11/09/beal-science-project-succeeds--maybe-too-much--as-weather-balloon-floats-into-us)
Once found on the American side of the border, a corresponding article was written by the **Potter Leader-Enterprise**:
> At the school, principal Tracy Kio and fourth-grade science teacher Robert Raudenbush learned more about the balloon’s origins.
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> They had found that the balloon was part an experiment, launched more than a week ago from a football field in London, Ontario, Canada, by H.B. Beal Secondary school teacher Dung Tiet and 10 eager ninth-graders.
[*Read the full article here*](https://www.tiogapublishing.com/potter_leader_enterprise/news/local/around-the-great-lakes-in-two-days-canadian-balloon-makes-extraordinary-journey-to-port-allegany/article_935ddffa-d11f-11e7-9783-03ac5a7e7efb.html)
## The balloon on the other side
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