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Old 25th June 2013 | 22:20
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Couldn't be that thing. . .

It says right on it that it is Harmless.
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Old 26th June 2013 | 01:53
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The radome probably just collapsed due internal structural failure.
Possible. When a dome undergoes an inversion under stress, as this radome did, the process is called "snap-through", and can produce a substantial "thump" even if there is no collision with a specific object, just failure under a continuous load (airstream.) The thump can easily give the impression of an actual impact.

Just making an engineering point - I have no opinion yet as to what happened here.
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Old 26th June 2013 | 03:13
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The air loads are miniscule compared to object strikes and handling, including leaning on it.

I'm afraid that it had some help other just going poof in the night
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Old 26th June 2013 | 04:04
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There are other items carried by ballons than just Met packages, eg Google Loons for airborne wifi: Project Loon | Google Balloons Offer Free Wi-Fi, Internet | Photos
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Old 27th April 2017 | 18:37
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was there ever an official report on this one ?
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