SOUTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. — A white package attached to a red parachute with a handwritten note indicating it was not a bomb fell from the sky earlier this week, less than 20 miles from the president’s Bedminster golf club, police said.

The device, which raised alarms, turned out to be a weather monitor, one of six that a NASA scientist released Sunday in the New Brunswick, New Jersey, area, police said Thursday.

Officer Salvatore Fama of the South Brunswick Police Department was dispatched just before noon Tuesday to a solar panel field in the Kendall Park section of the township. Employees there told Fama that the package was making a hissing sound and contained a handwritten note indicating it was not a bomb.

SOUTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. — A white package attached to a red parachute with a handwritten note indicating it was not a bomb fell from the sky earlier this week, less than 20 miles from the president’s Bedminster golf club, police said.

The device, which raised alarms, turned out to be a weather monitor, one of six that a NASA scientist released Sunday in the New Brunswick, New Jersey, area, police said Thursday.

Officer Salvatore Fama of the South Brunswick Police Department was dispatched just before noon Tuesday to a solar panel field in the Kendall Park section of the township. Employees there told Fama that the package was making a hissing sound and contained a handwritten note indicating it was not a bomb.