---
title: We lost a weather balloon in another country
description: ..and made the news because of it
date: 2017-11-24
draft: false
extra:
  excerpt: Beal science project succeeds - maybe too much - as weather balloon floats into U.S.
aliases:
  - /blog/weatherballoon-lost
---

A news article was written about a project I was involved in. It's even headed by a photo I took!

![](/images/posts/weatherballoon/927942227749416960-DOC2hmHVwAI8aXW.jpg)

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.
>
> 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)

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.
>
> 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

![](/images/posts/weatherballoon/5a1826bd8b199.webp)