A strange glowing object over the Gent was a weather balloon

Strange glowing object, which was filmed over Gent on Saturday, turned out to be a weather balloon. The balloon arrived from Ireland. The hotline UFO received 34 messages from all over Flanders, most of which are in Ghent, about "exploding sphere" in the sky.

Initially reporting center ruled out a weather balloon exploding, because at that time, neither the Belgian nor the Dutch meteorological service did not have it in the air.

"The various elements of the observations indicate that this is a big balloon, but full of certainty yet," explained the report.

"The origin of the balloon is also unknown, and, given the probably large size, it is doubtful that it was released by a private individual," - said in a statement.

"One of the options is that it is a research balloon from abroad".

This assumption proved to be correct:

"This afternoon we were contacted by an Irish correspondent," says Frederick döhler. "He confirmed that a student from Cork University released last Thursday a weather balloon. The balloon was launched from the Observatory Valentia Materiana that works with Irish meteorological service. His GPS signal, which was lost over the city of Ghent on Saturday."

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