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PARACHUTE that lowered the payload package from a weather observation balloon js caught m power lines and trees on a farm near Fond du Lac. The gondola fell Friday afternoon from a 400-foot balloon launched from Sioux Falls, Souih Dakota, by scientists of the University of St. Louis and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to study cosmic rays. The balloon prompted reports Thursday and Friday of UFO’s in the area.—(AP Wirephoto).Huge Unmanned Balloon Lands Near Fond du LacFOND DU LAC, Wis. (AP) — After drifting east Tor about 400 miles from Sioux Falls, S.D., a huge research balloon and its instrument capsule landed Friday southwest of this Lake Winnebago city.The 400-foot unmanned balloon, reflecting sunlight and looking like a bright planet against night skies, had sparked inquiries about unidentified flying objects in Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin.The truck-sized capsule was released from its balloon and floated to earth under a parachute, settling on an abandoned car beside a shed at an unused farm.The balloon was found in shreds several miles away near Rosendale.The object was launched Wednesday near Sioux Falls as part of a National Aeronautics and Space Administration project to study cosmic rays.It traveled east at about 20 miles an hour about 23 miles above the earth. Residents of eastern Wisconsin saw it glowing in the evening sky Thursday while it was still more than 200 miles to the west.State troopers and spectators who trailed the capsuleas it descended Friday afternoon were soon joined by John Epstein of Washington University, St. Louis, who had been tracking it in an airplane.He said collected by the capsule’s instruments would be studied m St. Louis.The capsule and its parachute missed busily traveled U.S. 41 by only about half a mile, and caused tefcnporary local power outages when it weighted down some powerlines.Ask for quality localPhoto Processing atGlander Drugs, S. 12th St....one of many Central Photo Company dealers in this areal
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