After a delay of almost four weeks the BBC Sky Balloon finally got off the ground in County Fermanagh.

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Where it would land, no one knew but, using a GPS tracker, the BBC Sky Balloon team tracked the payload to the Killynick Road, Derrylin, near the border with the Irish Republic.

BBC: Giant weather balloon carries out its sky mission

Conflicting reports emerged about the company that operated the doomed balloon, Sky Cruise.

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The moon, a giant balloon filled with bright film lights, will ascend into the sky above College Green each evening from Thursday until Sunday.

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Once a balloon hits terra firma, or something close, it radios its location back to its successor in the sky, which then relays the data to the SkySite website.

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And the infinite emptiness of the brilliant sky above means that on the rare occasions when an object, such as a plane or a hot-air balloon, does pass through, the bright contrast lends it such a fierce intensity that it confuses the eye.

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