Whoah! Karoo Farmer Finds Huge Crashed Google Balloon [Image]

20 Nov 2014 by Jasmine Stone in Communication, Tech/Sci

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Imagine stumbling through your (large) back garden and you see a massive unidentified thing. You think it might be a weather balloon, but it turns out to actually be a Google internet balloon.

That’s what happened to Karoo farmer Urbanus Botha.

He thought it had floated all the way from De Aar, but after his daughter found signs that showed it belonged to Google, the journey seemed even further.

“An engineer in California said via e-mail that the components in my photos look like those of their system. He will send a regional team to fetch the parts from us,” said Sarita Botha [the daughter]

The Google project, called Loon, hopes to “provide permanent Internet connectivity to everyone”.

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