--- title: We lost a weather balloon in another country description: ..and made the news because of it date: 2017-11-24 tags: - news - school 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!  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 