KRESS, Texas – Neighbors in North Texas were happy to see the NASA logo after a large and mysterious object came down in their small farm town.

Video shows the giant balloon parachuting down onto a field in Kress , Texas, on Oct. 2. Anne Vincent Walter captured video of the unusual moment and told Storyful News she called police.

"My husband and I saw a parachute in the sky that morning, and it ended up being a piece of large experimental equipment that landed in our neighbor’s wheat field," Walter said.

Walters said she was later contacted by NASA's Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Fort Sumner , New Mexico , and told it had been launched a day earlier from the launch facility 140 miles away. NASA's Scientific Balloon Program averages about 10-15 flights per year from six sites a

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