Strange Object In The Sky

[SmokingInTheWind]

My evening smoke on the patio has been interrupted. My wife noticed an object in the sky. To the naked eye it looks like a small full moon. With 10X binoculars it appears to be a balloon. It is an inverted teardrop shape similar to a hot air balloon with no basket. It is iridescent white with the sun shining on it. It is not quite dusk yet and the sun just went down. The strange part about it is it hasn’t appeared to move in about a half an hour. Does this sound consistent with a weather balloon?

Edit: Mystery solved. The wife found this on the web. I was too busy smoking my pipe.

Seven Scientific Balloons to Fly From New Mexico for NASA Campaign - NASA

A NASA Scientific Balloon Program annual campaign is taking flight at the agency’s balloon launch facility in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Seven balloon flights

www.nasa.gov

It’s still just hanging there.

 

[STP]

I think most have seen some weird unexplained shit in the sky at some point. Recently saw this news report:

 

[Hillcrest]

My evening smoke on the patio has been interrupted. My wife noticed an object in the sky. To the naked eye it looks like a small full moon. With 10X binoculars it appears to be a balloon. It is an inverted teardrop shape similar to a hot air balloon with no basket. It is iridescent white with the sun shining on it. It is not quite dusk yet and the sun just went down. The strange part about it is it hasn’t appeared to move in about a half an hour. Does this sound consistent with a weather balloon?

Edit: Mystery solved. The wife found this on the web. I was too busy smoking my pipe.

Seven Scientific Balloons to Fly From New Mexico for NASA Campaign - NASA

A NASA Scientific Balloon Program annual campaign is taking flight at the agency’s balloon launch facility in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Seven balloon flights

www.nasa.gov

It’s still just hanging there.

The old "NASA Balloon" explanation ... again ...

 

[SmokingInTheWind]

I think most have seen some weird unexplained shit in the sky at some point. Recently saw this news report:

Well, this is New Mexico so you know what I was thinking when I first saw it ha, ha.

 

[Servant King]

George Carlin referred to them as "nasholes" for a reason...

 

[STP]

Well, this is New Mexico so you know what I was thinking when I first saw it ha, ha.

Ha, Roswell. I actually visited that museum about 20 yrs ago. Was kinda cheesy, but still fun.

 

[JoeW]

 

[JOHN72]

On one of my nighttime walks around the neighborhood, I ran into this guy, who turned out to be a Martian dressed up as a German soccer player from the 1970s. He told me he was looking for a 24-hour flying saucer repair garage, because his flying saucer had a hydraulic oil leak in the directional. system.

 

[ziv]

On one of my nighttime walks around the neighborhood, I ran into this guy, who turned out to be a Martian dressed up as a German soccer player from the 1970s. He told me he was looking for a 24-hour repair shop because his flying saucer had a hydraulic oil leak in the directional system. View attachment 417730

No wonder his system is leaking... Everyone knows that torsion field powered systems are much superior to the ancient hydraulic ones.

 

[JOHN72]

No wonder his system is leaking... Everyone knows that torsion field powered systems are much superior to the outdated hydraulic ones.

I think that soccer player was laughing at me.. He reminds me of a porn actor who was run over by a lawnmower on a Saturday at 3 a.m., when I was out walking on a Saturday at 3 a.m.

 

[Searock Fan]

I thought UFOs were a joke too, until 1970 when I was in the USAF and saw one hovering over our base, then shoot straight up faster than a bullet.

 

[anantaandroscoggin]

I once did (really, actually) business cards for a guy which read:

ROAD WARRIOR
MOBILE MECHANIC
Foreign — Domestic — Alien​

phone

 

[anantaandroscoggin]

There was a year when insurance company data revealed that the safest driver in the U.S.A. happened to be:

A woman, driving her tractor in the fields, between 2 to 3 on Sunday mornings.

 

[Piping Abe]

Happy to see another Crop Circle thread finally.

 

[JOHN72]

Damn it. Who hasn't taken a walk at three in the morning on a Saturday, on a starry, cold night, with wet streets, a newspaper flying around, steam rising from the sewers, and not seen a Martian with his flying saucer, smoking a cigar and holding a Michelin guide?

 

[plugugly]

JoeW - That chart is top secret - you could get in trouble!
John72 - I Did!. But I had been drinking.

 

[The Benedictine]

 

[SmokingInTheWind]

Happy to see another Crop Circle thread finally.

I’m just trying to do my part.

 

[Sig]

This is going to sound like I am an idiot who doesn't pay attention, but...
About a year ago I was standing out in our yard with some new baby goats. It must have been near Winter because it was around 6:30 PM EST, and it was dark out.
Looking up I saw hundreds of alien ships moving along in single file, equally spaced!!
From horizon to horizon, a line of tiny lights moving across the sky.
I KNEW we were done for!!!


Turns out it was just Starlink satellites.
I found out online when they would pass by again the next night, and messed with my wifes head.

 

[JOHN72]

This is going to sound like I am an idiot who doesn't pay attention, but...
About a year ago I was standing out in our yard with some new baby goats. It must have been near Winter because it was around 6:30 PM EST, and it was dark out.
Looking up I saw hundreds of alien ships moving along in single file, equally spaced!!
From horizon to horizon, a line of tiny lights moving across the sky.
I KNEW we were done for!!!


Turns out it was just Starlink satellites.
I found out online when they would pass by again the next night, and messed with my wifes head.

That was exactly what I saw one night from my balcony in southeastern Spain. I had no idea what that space company was. I swear I didn't drink anything that night, and I had my glasses on. I thought Christmas had come early.