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Originally Posted by Amoeba  Does anyone know if this could be a weather balloon? Do they get set off that early in the morning? |
Weather balloons are still used to some extent these days in the UK. The main use is to gather wind speeds in the upper air. They carry a small box of equipment to record and send back the details, but no light. They have about a 4ft diameter at launch but this increases dramatically as they gain height.
I don't think what you spotted would have been a weather balloon, more likly one of the lanterns mentioned earlier.
BWD