Friday, October 15, 2010

UFO over Manhattan?

The balloons that got away.All those theories about Wednesday's mystery UFO sightings over Manhattan are about to go "pop."

A Westchester elementary school believes the puzzling orbs floating over Chelsea were likely a bundle of balloons that escaped from an engagement party they held for a teacher.

"UFO? They're crazy - those are our balloons!" said Angela Freeman, head of the Milestone School in Mount Vernon. "To me it was the most automatic thing. But it's all over YouTube."

A parent was bringing about 40 iridescent pearl balloons to the school for language arts teacher Andrea Craparo when the wind spent a bunch away around 1 p.m.

"They looked big and they were all together, so it looked like one UFO," said fourth-grader Nia Foster, 9.

Awestruck gawkers began calling the NYPD and the FAA starting about an hour later when mysterious flying objects appeared over Manhattan.

... helium-filled balloons tend to change shape at high altitudes as the gas expands - making them look abnormal from below, experts say. ....

via UFO? NYC kids say no, mysterious floating orbs were escaped balloons from teacher's engagement party.

The unidentified shiny object was spotted at about 1:30 p.m. Eastern time yesterday, and police and FAA officials report being flooded with calls by New Yorkers all a buzz. Authorities say the radar data didn't show anything unusual. The not-so-official explanation, it was likely a weather balloon.

via ArkansasMatters

Video here. Looks like balloons to me. In this other video there are 10 visible at once:





There are also at least 10 white balloons in the photo above.

Something isn't right about this. Why the confusion as to there being one or more of them?

Are people in Manhattan really so out of it that they can't identify balloons in the sky?

Stranger still, in this photo the balloons from the party are still tied together. They do look more like a UFO that way. This makes the calls to NORAD a bit more possible ... a bit.

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But wait... please explain, if the white balloons are the cause of this sighting, how they came untied once they were up there...  How many balloons were released from the party? 10? 100?

Fishy. Let me know if you find another video of the "real" UFO this balloon story is covering up. ;-)

Perhaps someone saw something like this instead:




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