Can't be a weather balloon. They aren't flexible enough to do some of the movements shown in the videos. Also, the shape just did not
correlate in my mind. Did the thing just suddenly disappear or what happened to it.
Who's talking about weather balloons anymore? We where talking about a much larger balloon made to hoist a heavy spacecraft to a high altitude for a
launch into space. A weather balloon is maybe 100 ft in diameter and only lasts a few hours. This balloon has to stay aloft longer, carry more weight,
and remain stable/motionless to provide for the launch. Needless to say it is at the least MUCH bigger. The Logo for the team also fit the discription
of the V noted on the object spotted in MN.
Besides what motion is the video showing? I don't see it doing a darn thing but hanging there. I think that everyone that saw this thing and posted
on this site said that it remained almost too motionless to even be a balloon...
Edit. Another thing, i'm pretty sure their balloon isnt large enough to be seen 30-80k feet high, especially if you look at the picture posted
you can see its not possible.
You do realise that that is a computer generated image, and not the actual balloon, right?
Besides if you figure that the ship is 40 to 50 feet long, and full of fuel, three people, and equipment, it’s going to take one heck of a balloon to
lift it. Somewhere I saw a quote that it was the size of a football field, but I cannot find this quote now.
When you consider that the space shuttle launches are visible from the cape into Georgia, on the other side of Florida, and into parts of the
Carolina's, and that is only the size of a 727, roughly, with the tanks on we’ll say a 747. Yet it’s visible for hundreds of miles around. A huge
silver ball reflecting sunlight is going to be even more visible.
[edit on 8/23/2004 by defcon5]