Strap in, this story involves a cheese fortune teller, the department of war, and nearly every other government department in between. In 2017 (I think?) I was introduced to weather balloon hunting by Mark VK5QI. At the time the Australian balloon chasing community was small. Only Melbourne and Adelaide radiosondes (the transmitter on weather balloons) were being tracked on a website called Habhub - high altitude ballooning hub. This site was designed for amateur balloons and not meteorological ...