5.10.2025

LUBBOCK, Texas — It was an ordinary morning on the farm until it wasn’t.

While getting ready for the day, Ann Walter was told that, floating high above them, was a massive parachute-like balloon gliding silently across the sky. They stood there in awe, snapping photos and videos before carrying on with their morning routine.

Someone told Ann that she should call the Hale County Sheriff’s Office, which thanked her and explained that the NASA team was trying to find and retrieve the piece of equipment.

The next day, Ann received a text saying her family had found the space equipment. The research balloon landed in a farmland in Hale County on Thursday morning.

Nexstar’s Lubbock station reached out to NASA for a comment.

Quelle: kxan