Deputies Make Puzzling Discovery

For a while two Waupaca County deputies weren’t sure what they had found.  While patrolling the Wolf River in a remote area of the county Wednesday, they found an odd-looking device sitting on the ice.  They called it in, saying it was some kind of frame, with what appeared to be solar panels and a computer assembly.  It took about 45 minutes to find identifying information, then county officials called Raven Aero-star in South Dakota.  It turned out they had found a stratospheric platform – a weather balloon — which was on a test flight.  It had been flying at 60-thousand feet when it went off-course.  The device will be returned to the company.