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.
Ann Vincent Walter said her son, Hayden, was the first to spot what initially appeared to be a weather balloon over the family's farm in Hale County, north of Lubbock.
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.
Walter contacted the Hale County Sheriff's Office, where officials had also been called by NASA about a piece of missing equipment.
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.
