Local farmer Willie Alber was trucking soybeans last Sunday at the farm located near Rosemont, south and east of Blue Hill. About 5:30 p.m he returned to the field after taking a load to the AGP elevator at Rosemont and noticed something different and "strange" out in the field. He walked out and found a bright blue balloon with a small note attatched that had recently come to rest there. On one side of the approx 3 inch square note was a simple drawing made by a child. "Barb" was written in childish handwriting in one corner of the note. On the other side was a machine printed message that included the name and address of a church in Hawley Minnesota. Also on the card was a date, September 25th, 2011, the same day the card tied with a little string to the blue latex balloon was found in the soybean field in south central Nebraska.
The balloon had apparently traveled across four states, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Nebraska, in a matter of hours. Hawley is located in Minnesota close to the border near Fargo, North Dakota.
Monday morning Alber found a telephone number for the city hall in Hawley, Minnesota, He called there and got a number to call the church listed in the address. He talked to a secretary at the church and verified that a Sunday School class from that church had indeed done a balloon launch Sunday morning about 10 am. Alber plans to return the card to the church so the children involved in the launch will know that at least one balloon successfully travel approximately 500 miles on a nice warm air current and came to rest in a soybean field after its journey.
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