The National Weather Service launched radiosonde,a device that collects measurements, with weather balloon 165 miles absent in VirginiaThe National Weather Service says an instrument that fell from the sky, and prompting a Philadelphia bomb squad response,weighed about a pound and had been launched with a weather balloon about 165 miles absent. Mitchell Gaines, of the weather service in Mount Holly, or fresh Jersey,says the instrument called a radiosonde took off Saturday from the agency’s office in Sterling, Virginia. High winds carried it to Philadelphia. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com