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Ordinarily it would be easy to say that it's just a mylar balloon, but it's an odd one if that's the case here.
Detailed Description
We were chatting outside, around 9 p.m. the sky was still very clear and clear. it was I who spotted the first bright objects in the sky, as if the light of the sun was reflected on their surface. we counted 4 of them. They all moved in the same direction, at a distance about equal. we thought of balloons because there was no noise. they were very high, cloud height, north direction I would say. we didn't have a telescope so I opted for the super zoom of my pentax. my neighbor was able to take 7 photos before the objects were too far away.
when you zoom in on the small object in the center of the photos, you can clearly see that these are not balloons. there is an elongated shape and a kind of base. we really have impression of seeing reactors and on one of the photos, we even distinguish different colors (white, red, green) ... we thought of military drones but we don't see any fins on photos. so we ask ourselves lots of questions.
I specify that we lost the 4th object of sight. the first was ahead and the other two followed. we can say that the formation of the 3 was in a triangle. they have always followed their trajectory, no random flight. we also thought of space debris ... but the objects had the same shape. the sighting ended when they were no longer within sight.
originally posted by: LookingAtMars
a reply to: Blue Shift
Ordinarily it would be easy to say that it's just a mylar balloon, but it's an odd one if that's the case here.
What about a deflating weather balloon, being rocked by the air currents?
S&F for the OP
originally posted by: PokeyJoe
a reply to: Blue Shift
It looks like a giant dong.
originally posted by: Blue Shift
Ordinarily it would be easy to say that it's just a mylar balloon, but it's an odd one if that's the case here.
France. Fusion powered baguette.
Sighting Specifics
Distance Unknow
Altitude 500 Feet Or Less
Duration 00:05:00
Features None
Flight Path Straight Line Path
Shape Blimp
originally posted by: ByteChanger
What's so odd about it? 4 tethered balloons drifted off into the sunset, one broke off...]
originally posted by: Blue Shift
originally posted by: ByteChanger
What's so odd about it? 4 tethered balloons drifted off into the sunset, one broke off...]
You could be right, but I don't know how you would prove it with these images.
originally posted by: ByteChanger
Suppose there exist two explanations for an occurrence. UFO or Ballon.
But you're right. I couldn't prove these are balloons using those images.
originally posted by: Blue Shift
assuming you mean "UFO" as some kind of machine built by "aliens" of some kind.
A balloon or some variation of it is likely
but is more of a conjecture than a proven fact or explanation. The razor cuts both ways.
originally posted by: ByteChanger
I'll ask you again, what was so "odd" about the sighting? It is your post after all.
originally posted by: rom12345
that looks like a flying cock and balls.
originally posted by: Blue Shift
originally posted by: ByteChanger
I'll ask you again, what was so "odd" about the sighting? It is your post after all.
I don't think this shows that. And if an object is smaller, as these things appear to be, the rounding is more obvious because you need to pack more helium into it to get it to fly. That creates additional rounding but also rigidity.
This thing (these things, I guess) doesn't show those indications of inflation. There are curves and straight lines that to me make it less likely they're inflated in some way.
And then there are the lights/reflections. Because they appear flat and not following an inflation curve, they look to me more like something self-illuminated. And then there is the apparently modular look of it. Different sizes and shapes linked together, rather than a cluster of the same kinds of things, like a cluster of balloons gone astray.
If it was just one of these things, it would be easier to just write it off. But added up they make the sighting and the images a bit more compelling than average, which is why I posted it.
I'm not trying to prove anything
rises just ever so slightly above the rest of the garbage images out there.
For reference, this is what a cluster of mylar balloons looks like. Similar? Eh...
Ordinarily it would be easy to say that it's just a mylar balloon, but it's an odd one if that's the case here.