Balloon’s Flight?
A green rubber balloon was found in a tree in the garden of a Papatoetoe resident last week. Attached to it was a tab on which was written the name and address of the sender—a group of Brownies in Glasgow who on June 10 launched 400 balloons as a fund-raising venture. The Brownie leader in Glasgow was astounded when she received the balloon with an air mail letter from New Zealand on Wednesday. What was puzzling was how the balloon had covered the 12,000 miles in less than three weeks. A member of the Project
Ghost team which has launched dozens of balloons from Christchurch Airport for scientific research said that the whole thing was evidently a joke. “It must have been brought over in a jet aircraft and released in New Zealand. It is impossible for a rubber balloon to stay aloft for three weeks and travel such a distance. By rights it would have exploded within a day of being launched.” “It must have got her? by human or divine intervention. It certainly didn’t make it under its own steam,” he said.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31730, 13 July 1968, Page 17
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