Two heartbroken Texas sisters Gypsy and Story Retting wrote moving notes to their late father and attached to a balloon and released it up to the sky. A 10-year-old in Kansas attached a note to a bunch of helium balloons and sent them off into the sky.In a field behind their house, they found a blue aluminum balloon. Found a balloon in the woods. With a note attached. A Texas couple found a mysterious message in a balloon that turned out to be from a child living in Nashville. The balloon only had to be filled to about 6 feet in diameter, and not the 9 feet it could have been, to pull our antenna skyward. B As the balloon got higher in the air, things on the ground got smaller and smaller. C Soon people were the size of ants, and cars and trucks looked like toys.