When I was a child of about 10 years old I was up in the Rocky Mountains camping with family. I was walking a dog with a younger cousin of mine when I noticed a white ball/orb moving horizontally, perfectly straight at a constant speed. After a few seconds it continued its path and disappeared behind a mountain top. At first I thought it was one of those white balls that are attached to power lines so planes to not fly into them, but then I realized how big it would have been in comparison to the trees on the mountain top. I would estimate that it was about 30 feet diameter. Does this sound like it could have been a weather balloon? Would a weather balloon fly perfectly horizontal and would they have one flying around a mountain top??

Originally posted by thewrongpath
When I was a child of about 10 years old I was up in the Rocky Mountains camping with family. I was walking a dog with a younger cousin of mine when I noticed a white ball/orb moving horizontally, perfectly straight at a constant speed. After a few seconds it continued its path and disappeared behind a mountain top. At first I thought it was one of those white balls that are attached to power lines so planes to not fly into them, but then I realized how big it would have been in comparison to the trees on the mountain top. I would estimate that it was about 30 feet diameter. Does this sound like it could have been a weather balloon? Would a weather balloon fly perfectly horizontal and would they have one flying around a mountain top??

A weather ballon could fly perfectly horizonal if it were in a draft moving that way as you can see balloners hit these drafts and ride them, but I don't think the odds are that it was one.

I had seen a similar looking thing more recently i.e in the month of March.I had also started a thread on that and
I got replies that it was indeed a UFO.

I have seen a "ufo" when I was younger.
I debunked it myself.. I was near a "massive" air force base. Although this was nothing like anything we had ever seen before.
This was a black triangle with 3 orange/yellow lights under. Not the normal blue/red that normal planes have.
3 of use had seen it at the same time. But as I said, I had decided it was just an airforce plane...


(It may not be )