1.   Soon the balloon was only a speck in the sky.

2.   The officer in the control tower was very angry when he heard the news, because balloons can be a great danger to aircraft.

3.   When the balloon was over the station, the pilot saw one of the men taking photographs.

4.   The second balloon was a quarter of a mile off, and by now very close to the ground.

5.   But now the balloon was in the wrong place... it should be in front... the plane wandered away from it, sluggish and disobedient.

6.   The balloon was a target indecently big.

7.   Then the balloons were off rising above Herefordshire to eleven and a half thousand feet instead of the planned ten and a half thousand.

8.   At the end of the catheter was the balloon.

9.   Balloons are always a choke hazard, CALPIRG said, and they are even more dangerous when carrying a picture of a figure loved by little kids.

10.   Balloons were everywhere, as were outsized cardboard pencils and rulers made by kids.