{"id":4499,"date":"2025-10-15T08:12:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T08:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/4499\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T08:12:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T08:12:18","slug":"watch-nasa-equipment-blown-off-course-lands-on-west-texas-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/4499\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: NASA equipment blown off course lands on West Texas farm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oct. 14 (UPI) — A West Texas woman who spotted a large parachute in the sky discovered the object that landed on her family’s farm was a piece of NASA equipment that had been blown off-course.<\/p>\n

Ann Vincent Walter said her son, Hayden, was the first to spot<\/a> what initially appeared to be a weather balloon over the family’s farm in Hale County, north of Lubbock.\n<\/p>\n

The family discovered when the object touched down on their property that it wasn’t a weather balloon at all, but a large and mysterious piece of equipment attached to a parachute.<\/p>\n

Walter contacted the Hale County Sheriff’s Office, where officials had also been called by NASA about a piece of missing equipment.<\/p>\n

A NASA researcher spoke with Walter and explained the equipment had been launched from Fort Sumner, N.M., but had been blown off-course by strong winds.<\/p>\n

The equipment had been launched by the Columbia Scientific Balloon Team as part of a series of experiments aimed at helping to aid the accuracy of telescopes.<\/p>\n

Walter said she called her work to ask if she could come in late while researchers retrieved the equipment.\n<\/p>\n

“They gladly let me go so I could see the equipment and experience this once-in-a-lifetime situation,” Walter wrote in a Facebook post<\/a>. “What a cool memory and experience.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct. 14 (UPI) — A West Texas woman who spotted a large parachute in the sky discovered the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4892,4890,27,29,28,4891],"class_list":["post-4499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-funny","tag-odd","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}