Daijiworld Media Network - Beltangady
Beltangady, Sep 3: In a curious incident, a huge balloon, similar to a parachute, fell from the skies near Kalmanja here on Thursday September 3, creating anxiety among the locals as well as the police.
What's more, the balloon seemed to have come floating all the way from China! Or so it was suspected at first.
The balloon reportedly fell near the house of one Subba Malekudiya in Madmalkatte, Kalmanja. There was a small box-like item attached to the balloon, in which was given a Beijing name company address, international phone numbers, fax numbers and email address.
As soon as news got around, suspicions and rumours ran rife that the balloon might have been released by China as a device to 'spy' on India. The police also arrived at the spot on receiving information.
The locals expressed suspicions that it might separated during a rocket launch or could be a parachute.
However, police confirmed that such balloons are used for gathering information about the weather, atmospheric pressure and direction of the wind. However, nobody could guess where the balloon originated from or how it came all way to Kalmanja.
The police took the balloon into their possession. Speaking to daijiworld, SP Sharanappa said that there was no need to panic, and that the police have already investigated the incident. It has been found that the balloon originated from India itself, though it was made in China and carried a Chinese tag. The balloon, equipped with a radiosonde, a unit that performs measurements and radio transmissions, was being used to assess the weather, the police said.
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Flavian, Mangaluru/Kuwait
Sun, Sep 06 2015Could have been a major disaster if the balloon was in the airspace or landing path of an aircraft.
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Flavian, Mangaluru/Kuwait
Sun, Sep 06 2015Could have been a major disaster if the balloon was on the landing path of an aircraft.
Such incidents should be thoroughly investigated.
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Suresh Rao, Shirva
Fri, Sep 04 2015Lodge a complaint with Ramanath Rai, District Minister.
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Rudolf, Mumbai
Fri, Sep 04 2015Wish this balloon contained some goodies or cash!!Incidentally, a coincidence, a similar named person's "Mallekudiya" were chopped off mercilessly in the same area, recently, by some upper caste people over some property issues!!
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JNB, Mangalore
Fri, Sep 04 2015use it as tarpaulin in rainy season.
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yogesh, mumbai
Fri, Sep 04 2015What happened to "Make in India"??????????? ISRO sending USA,UK satellites to space...can't MET dept manufacture such a simple device?..anyway their forecasts are useless
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j.anata, Mangaluru / Bengaluru
Fri, Sep 04 2015Yeah sad indeed...60 odd years of misrule by dongis have left us in lurch
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CHARLES SALDANHA, MALAD- MALWANI
Fri, Sep 04 2015WE ARE RELIEVED.IT IS NOT AN CHINESE AGGRESSION.
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Peter Rodrigues, Hosabettu
Fri, Sep 04 2015This is spy gadget and even the website mentioned in this label is full of spy-ware (please don't visit their website as it might compromise your location and your data)
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paddu, mangalore
Fri, Sep 04 2015how it got escaped from our radder systems???
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Ramesh Salian, Mulki
Fri, Sep 04 2015how did the Mangalore Airport radar miss this Chinese UFO ?
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jayaraj, mangalore
Fri, Sep 04 2015this is the instrument called GPS sonde used by india meteorological department to study the upper air met parameters like wind,temperature ,humidity etc. this might have released from bangalore or minicoy.usually it will fall in the sea,but some times in land also.the balloon will be filled with hydrogen which is highly inflammable
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Amharz, Mangalore
Fri, Sep 04 2015It can be deadly virus to spread in India
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Rodrigues , Mlore
Fri, Sep 04 2015Good Marketing strategy by the Chinese
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Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai
Fri, Sep 04 2015India gets only Hot Air ...
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Valar, Blr
Fri, Sep 04 2015Mr.Jossey, Change your nationality to get cool air
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Abdul Razak, Mangalore
Fri, Sep 04 2015Handover this mystery case to the CBI.
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Vincent Pais, Mulki
Fri, Sep 04 2015Fill it with hydrogen after tying the antique aluminum " kodapana " to it. It may go back to China with the south westerly winds.
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Damodar Bhat, Udupi
Fri, Sep 04 2015Do you need to complain to the police for this and file an FIR ??
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Wilson , Shamboor /Thailand
Fri, Sep 04 2015Its Radiosonde.(A radiosonde is a battery-powered telemetry instrument package carried into the atmosphere usually by a weather balloon that measures various atmospheric parameters and transmits them by radio to a ground receiver.) Developed by Bejing Changfeng Micro-Electronics Technology Co.Ltd.
Subba Malekudiya can use that balloon as a tarpaulin
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suraj, Mangalore
Fri, Sep 04 2015Their aboutme page states that they export to India.
Could it be someone from the subcontinent?
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Sam, Mlore
Fri, Sep 04 2015Every other Daiji reader now visited www. Cfsaw.com.. hahaha..
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HENRY MISQUITH, Bahrain
Fri, Sep 04 2015Beware Sar( Takla) Taj Aziz waiting to send nuclear powered balloon.
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Veerappan, Salem/UAE
Thu, Sep 03 2015Pl.check the balloon thoroughly India's most wanted Dawood Ibrahim Or Lalit Modi is not hiding in the balloon.....I am having doubt!
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Roshan, bedra
Thu, Sep 03 2015After China to chinchpokli, the next sequel is Beijing to Belthangady
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prem, moodbidri
Thu, Sep 03 2015This balloon looks came from Ahmadabad, Gujarat, which was gifted to our PM, during his last China visit
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Abdul kader, Kasragod,
Thu, Sep 03 2015Six month guarantee........
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