A school in England is asking for the public’s help to find a missing teddy bear that was sent into the stratosphere with a weather balloon and fell to earth.
The Walhampton School said Bradford Bear was sent into the sky from Lymington, Hampshire, by seventh and eighth grade students working together with the Southampton University Spaceflight Society.
A camera on board the balloon recorded Bradford’s journey into the upper atmosphere, and captured the moment the stuffed toy was jostled free from his perch in the stratosphere above Henley-on-Thames on Nov. 10.
Bradford Bear had been expected to parachute to safety along with the rest of the balloon’s cargo in the Basingstoke area, but he is now believed to have landed somewhere between Earley and Fawley in the Henley-on-Thames area.
“If you have any information regarding his whereabouts, no matter how small, please let us know,” the school said on social media. “Video footage or any details would be hugely appreciated.”
Ellie Robinson, a science teacher at Walhampton School, told the BBC that Bradford Bear did “amazingly” by reaching an altitude of about 16.7 miles above the ground.
“I am sure he is fine as we have reassured the children he is very brave and resourceful,” she said.
