Wow that was a very impressive video. I am sorry for the loss of the family of the pilot who died.

I would never have mistaken an airship, especially one of this configuration, for a alien spacecraft.

Now, I would initially see it and classify it as a IFO (identified flying object) but with unknown additional attachments.

I suppose that some very uneducated people, or those with bad vision and forgot their glasses, could mistake it for something else more fantastic like a alien spaceship.

But anyone who can see it decently will know for sure it's a blimp.

TY for the video though, never seen ANYTHING like that before.

Who's idea was it to switch the regular engines with helicopters? That is a really weird twist.

I have no idea what the designers were thinking. I bet they ask themselves wth they were thinking nowadays as well.

this is way too ridiculous to try to make this monster fly .... how is it possible to put so much money in such an a priori dangerous machine !!!
everybody does feel this had to happen : vibrations all over !! this is too crazy, why helicopters ??? why no engines with propellers ??
soit, I also would never take this for a ufo you know, I agree it disappears very fast but not in a way like a ufo does .....

The video shows "US Forest Service" on the side of the blimp & the video of the blimp part still looks very CGI'ish to me.

Because it was made for US Forest Service.

Contrast and compresion makes it little CGI´ish but if you see whole thing you cant say it´s CGI.

Originally posted by Zmurfix

The video shows "US Forest Service" on the side of the blimp & the video of the blimp part still looks very CGI'ish to me.

Because it was made for US Forest Service.
Contrast and compresion makes it little CGI´ish but if you see whole thing you cant say it´s CGI.

Zmurfix.....

So, you're saying those extremely thick black edges on the blimp part as it buckles are not CGI, but are instead simply caused by video compression problems.....

I guess you're probably right.....

It just looks a little odd.

Oh well.....

Cheers
Maybe...maybe not

I don't know who's crazier

Someone who mistakes that thing as a UFO when it's a classic blimp design just with a crazy twist

or

The person who thought "hey lets weld 4 helo's without their tails to some scaffold and fix it to a blimp"

What exactly were they trying to achieve with that thing ?

Surprised just 1 pilot died in that...

I do not think it is CGI at all, no reason for it to be. Probably more of just a result of digitally converting a rather poor quality video to begin with.