Round object spotted from an A320 between Tenerife and Brussels

Summary

On 27 September 2002 at 14:48 UTC, passengers aboard an Airbus A320 flying from Tenerife to Brussels spotted a round object in the sky. The pilot described it as a balloon, possibly a weather balloon. GEIPAN recorded the case with a B classification — the explanation appears straightforward but could be neither fully confirmed nor ruled out.