---
title: "We lost a weather balloon in another country" 
description: "..and made the news because of it"
date: 2017-11-09
tags: news
draft: false
extra:
  excerpt: Beal science project succeeds - maybe too much - as weather balloon floats into U.S.
---

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

![](https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/v1/dynamic_resize/sws_path/suns-prod-images/1298003385469_ORIGINAL.jpg)

> 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)