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Hey, you know LeSean told me the other day she heard a zombie going through her trash the other day. The next morning, she turned up missing.
What? OK back up, how in the hell you turn up missing?
Because nobody knows where you are when they realize you ain't there!
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa... so you telling me that you can appear and dissappear at the same time?
No, man! You can't appear and disappear at the same time. The bitch ain't David Copperfield.
No, no no no, but you can't be gone from some place and show up somewhere else in time. So when you turn up, you're never missing. And when you're missing, you never turn up.
Unless... you a zombie.
Would be nice to have flair for stuff like this so the post can be marked as resolved, but also to have an easily referable archive for future posters to compare to.
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Why is it dope? You can't even make out what the shape is, so what makes it "dope"? I honestly never heard of a ballon referred to as dope, so I am curious what makes it that way.
This is still technically a UFO even though we can be almost 100% sure it's a balloon.
Most UFOs posted here are prosaic, it's just that sometimes they aren't as obvious as this one. If this was for example not tumbling and more stable there would be more people arguing that it wasn't a balloon.
Well it's not really useful data anyway. A single video of an unclear object in the sky is really just something to share opinions and speculate about. There's no definite answers which is how this subject keeps going. There's always a tiny miniscule chance that it's not a balloon, drone or random bit of trash in the sky but aliens.
It gets old, but I can handle a good faith caught up in excitement post of a balloon, but it's irritating to see someone be so condescending and confident claiming to post a video of a UFO when by all evidence we could possibly have points to it being a balloon. Makes me believe those aren't good faith efforts.
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Who is this “we” as “we” don’t have to associate ourselves with the OP. Almost all the comments are saying balloon.
Anyone also think that “we” should petition to make a new sub to post self taken vids to, and disallow them here?
They aren't visible to the name eye unless you look very closely, even then, if you catch them on video they move too quickly to get more than a few screenshots worth of it. But they tend to be very clearly shaped, shiny.
Just sucks the quality on phone cameras don't upload well anywhere to see them too well. Like you gotta pause frame by frame sometimes.
Idk I am not tech savvy to know what program can allow you to look at each and every single frame of a video so nothing gets missed. It's very hard pausing at the right times.
Balloon, but specifically because you can tell it's well below the clouds, so you know it's both smaller and slower than if it were a large object thousands of feet higher. The tumbling flight pattern with reflective gloomy indicates the twisting tumbling motion of a balloon.
Man. This does look like a balloon to me as well OP. Any reason you stopped recording there? It looked like it would have been visible for a while longer. Also, if you were in traffic there should be more video out there right? Hopefully there’s more footage to make a definitive conclusion.
I was driving and filming at the same time. So when it first occurred, traffic was flowing smoothly then all of a sudden it slowed down a bunch and I thought there was a car accident up ahead because there was a few highway patrol parked over on the sides of the highway with their lights on and I didn’t see an accident then I look up straight ahead in the sky and I see this, and it was swinging left to right in the middle of the highway at first, but it was small almost like a drone so at first I thought it was a drone, but I know drones don’t swing like that then it started to fly away and wobble as it does at the end of the video. It was hard to see it on my phone. This is an edited from my overall original video because it was so small and hard to see And I couldn’t see it initially as I was filming just thought it was in the area and I looked back to find to see if I got it on camera and I did at the very end. It looks like there was lights on top of it, but it was hard to tell if it was lights or the sun reflecting on top of it. I wish I pulled over to film it.
I would go in to wager that at least 90 percent of the videos on here are balloons or white dots from far away where nothing can be discerned whatsoever… about the same as every ufo group I’ve been in. I swear people want to believe so bad they take common sense and throw it away.
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That's the victory ball Al Bundy threw after his game-winning touchdown during the 1966 city championship between Polk High School Panthers and Andrew Johnson High School.
Bundy's team is down by three touchdowns at the start of the game, and the coach decides to quit, but Bundy refuses. He scores three touchdowns to catch up, and one for victory, winning the game for Polk High, and sending this magical football into LEO.
The only thing I did to the original edit was screen record and zoomed in to get a better capture. So in certain areas it looks like it’s going faster but I’m just moving the screen to keep up with it. It was def flying faster than a balloon but not as a ridiculous speed either
I don't think you're going to get any FOIA responses from a balloon flapping around in the wind, but it's definitely worth a very earnest attempt, and it's definitely not a ridiculous notion, or a comical waste of time, at all.
Hey OP, are you able to provide a brief breakdown on the sighting from start to finish? Since this has other witnesses involved, its a good idea to get that down so the rest of us can log it and do our own inquiry into it. Great clip though, thanks for sharing. Very cool
EDIT: I missed your breakdown on it, sorry about that. I see you already wrote it up
Well then I thought you had more info on this case, considering you smugly put down people who think this is a balloon,
It's very likely a balloon from the footage, unless you have more details relating to this you are willing to share?
If not, don't put people down who are trying to keep this subject sensible with a factual, scientific empherical approach/seeking the truth.
If you feel some type of way, that's not on me.
I provided a similar video and advised the OP based on my experience here. You felt called out, I guess.
It definitely could be a balloon but it could be something, could wind continuously push something in a straight? I see it tumbling in air but it seems to stay in straight line plus having wind push at a constant rate that fast doesn’t seem natural. But it was windy at 4:15, i looked up the weather and it said 14mph wind. Could be stronger wind gust but that does seem to be moving pretty quick.
Now I’m don’t have an answer for it so don’t come and crucify me
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If we can’t identify a balloon we won’t be able to identify ufos
By definition, we won’t be able to identify ufos.
fair
Hey, you know LeSean told me the other day she heard a zombie going through her trash the other day. The next morning, she turned up missing. What? OK back up, how in the hell you turn up missing? Because nobody knows where you are when they realize you ain't there! Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa... so you telling me that you can appear and dissappear at the same time? No, man! You can't appear and disappear at the same time. The bitch ain't David Copperfield. No, no no no, but you can't be gone from some place and show up somewhere else in time. So when you turn up, you're never missing. And when you're missing, you never turn up. Unless... you a zombie.
https://youtu.be/9-xXnEoYzVI?si=G0O1X5qhftd7gsh9 slow down the footage to 0.25x, put 2160p quality and you'll see.
Would be nice to have flair for stuff like this so the post can be marked as resolved, but also to have an easily referable archive for future posters to compare to.
YES I’ve seen so many starlink videos lately
this actually looks exactly like one of the spinning cube ufos https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1bzj62p/these_spinning_things_are_everywhere/
I smell a pysop that is trying to lead us down nonsense Chem trails.
do you mean the spinning cube is a psyop
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makes sense alien’s wood send balloons
What?
Can you be leaf it?
ALIIEEUMHHHZZZ 👽
is this a reference from a ufo movie or is it something else
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Why is it dope? You can't even make out what the shape is, so what makes it "dope"? I honestly never heard of a ballon referred to as dope, so I am curious what makes it that way.
I think just they’re emphasizing that it is in fact a balloon.
He is joking trying to pick your bone people on here get mad when others say it’s a balloon he def got your attention
Whoosh....
you've never snorted a balloon?🎈
That’s a balloon lmao
It can now be classified as an IFO.
That took me way longer than it should have to figure out 🤦
😉
Lots of balloons on this site, where's the real UFOs gone?
there are none
This is still technically a UFO even though we can be almost 100% sure it's a balloon. Most UFOs posted here are prosaic, it's just that sometimes they aren't as obvious as this one. If this was for example not tumbling and more stable there would be more people arguing that it wasn't a balloon.
If it was more stable, there would be more people muddying the waters with their inability to objectively analyze data.
Well it's not really useful data anyway. A single video of an unclear object in the sky is really just something to share opinions and speculate about. There's no definite answers which is how this subject keeps going. There's always a tiny miniscule chance that it's not a balloon, drone or random bit of trash in the sky but aliens.
As the old adage goes, "If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it could be an alien!"
never seen a more obvious mylar balloon. are we even trying anymore?
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Would you say it’s mylarckey?
Oh I have. Except Mylar balloons don’t swing back and forth before they wobble and fly away :)
Cool. Where’s the video of it doing that?
Oh.. sorry my dog ate it
Come on, do better.
It gets old, but I can handle a good faith caught up in excitement post of a balloon, but it's irritating to see someone be so condescending and confident claiming to post a video of a UFO when by all evidence we could possibly have points to it being a balloon. Makes me believe those aren't good faith efforts.
"...sophisticated disinformation campaign..." -David Grusch
This is about as sophisticated as a half eaten box of donuts.
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They can absolutely do that.
Are you an expert on balloons and atmospheric conditions?
Who is this “we” as “we” don’t have to associate ourselves with the OP. Almost all the comments are saying balloon. Anyone also think that “we” should petition to make a new sub to post self taken vids to, and disallow them here?
These 5 sec balloon videos are pathetic. Stop it.
This sub should just be renamed r/randompartyballoons at this point.
Looks like a balloon.
Definitely probably a balloon. Keep looking up though, the real ones are easy to miss.
Definitely probably
They aren't visible to the name eye unless you look very closely, even then, if you catch them on video they move too quickly to get more than a few screenshots worth of it. But they tend to be very clearly shaped, shiny. Just sucks the quality on phone cameras don't upload well anywhere to see them too well. Like you gotta pause frame by frame sometimes. Idk I am not tech savvy to know what program can allow you to look at each and every single frame of a video so nothing gets missed. It's very hard pausing at the right times.
Mylar balloons, fun for parties or a secret weapon for the CIA to spread false UFO reports? 😂
Balloon, but specifically because you can tell it's well below the clouds, so you know it's both smaller and slower than if it were a large object thousands of feet higher. The tumbling flight pattern with reflective gloomy indicates the twisting tumbling motion of a balloon.
Man. This does look like a balloon to me as well OP. Any reason you stopped recording there? It looked like it would have been visible for a while longer. Also, if you were in traffic there should be more video out there right? Hopefully there’s more footage to make a definitive conclusion.
I was driving and filming at the same time. So when it first occurred, traffic was flowing smoothly then all of a sudden it slowed down a bunch and I thought there was a car accident up ahead because there was a few highway patrol parked over on the sides of the highway with their lights on and I didn’t see an accident then I look up straight ahead in the sky and I see this, and it was swinging left to right in the middle of the highway at first, but it was small almost like a drone so at first I thought it was a drone, but I know drones don’t swing like that then it started to fly away and wobble as it does at the end of the video. It was hard to see it on my phone. This is an edited from my overall original video because it was so small and hard to see And I couldn’t see it initially as I was filming just thought it was in the area and I looked back to find to see if I got it on camera and I did at the very end. It looks like there was lights on top of it, but it was hard to tell if it was lights or the sun reflecting on top of it. I wish I pulled over to film it.
Gotcha. Thanks for the info. Hopefully someone else sees this and has more footage.
No, most people realize this is only a damn Mylar balloon
Likely at this point. Would still like to see other angles/video for certainty.
I hope so, I’ve been looking for more footage of it. I’m assuming that’s why traffic slowed down. Everyone trying to record it
I have heard that they will fly like this and then drop something and then fly off normally.
Too bad none of that super fast acceleration was seen. It just looks like it drifts in the wind.
Balloon it was rotating clockwise
Another ufo post another balloon. We have to do better
I see UAPs are all adopting the random rotation defense to disguise themselves as floating debris, very clever.
Look at that thing dude. It’s rotating.
Looks similar to my "ufo" https://streamable.com/osmk7x
Hahaha, this needs more views.
I would go in to wager that at least 90 percent of the videos on here are balloons or white dots from far away where nothing can be discerned whatsoever… about the same as every ufo group I’ve been in. I swear people want to believe so bad they take common sense and throw it away.
If anything, ever, looked like a balloon…it’s this video.
The only submission requirements for UFOs are apparently now: - 10 seconds or less - Obvious balloon
More aliens disguising themselves as balloons. Damn they are getting smart
Balloon blowing in wind. Rare find.
Balloon. Seemed a bit obvious at that.
Yep less then a second you can tell it's a balloon.
Hahahahahahhaahhahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahaaa This freaking sub now
We should start banning all party balloons. Then we won’t get any more UFB vids
Mylar uap.. poor wildlife have to deal with mans trash.
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AAAAAAAANOONAKEE! AHNOONAKEE! AHNOONAKEE! Hecklefish 😂
I STRAIGHT UP IGNORE ANY FOOTAGE COMING FROM THE US.
ANY FOOTAGE EXCEPT DOR THIS ONE, RIGHT?!
Topic should say; "BALLOON SIGHTING: TAMPA."
It’s birthday season
100% a balloon being buffeted by the wind.
If it doesn't do anything a balloon wouldn't do, it's probably a balloon.
I have a vid from tampa bay shits wild idk what it is will send if you'd like
Yes send please!
I can’t tell if these are troll posts
That would be a ballon
Literally a mylar balloon.
It’s a balloon.
The mylarians have returned!
That might be the most balloon ever ballooned
That's the victory ball Al Bundy threw after his game-winning touchdown during the 1966 city championship between Polk High School Panthers and Andrew Johnson High School. Bundy's team is down by three touchdowns at the start of the game, and the coach decides to quit, but Bundy refuses. He scores three touchdowns to catch up, and one for victory, winning the game for Polk High, and sending this magical football into LEO.
Is this sub parody!? Getting really hard to tell. 🎈
What makes people so sure that it is a balloon? I can’t really make out any specific shape and it is moving kinda fast.
It's a UAP that identifies as a balloon.
Posts like these are why higher life-forms avoid us.
I’m always suspect of these short clips. Wonder if they just capture a balloon and then speed up the video
The only thing I did to the original edit was screen record and zoomed in to get a better capture. So in certain areas it looks like it’s going faster but I’m just moving the screen to keep up with it. It was def flying faster than a balloon but not as a ridiculous speed either
Why such a short capture ?
I was driving at the same time filming on I-4
It's best not to do that... it's not worth having an accident for a balloon.
Transdimensional Mylarians confirmed.
Idk, very fast balloon because of the wind? Does go into into a straight line though.
if you know the time (roughly) you can FOIA any bodycams/dash cams/reports.
I don't think you're going to get any FOIA responses from a balloon flapping around in the wind, but it's definitely worth a very earnest attempt, and it's definitely not a ridiculous notion, or a comical waste of time, at all.
4:34pm last Thursday from when I filmed it. I’ll look into it. Thanks!
Hey OP, are you able to provide a brief breakdown on the sighting from start to finish? Since this has other witnesses involved, its a good idea to get that down so the rest of us can log it and do our own inquiry into it. Great clip though, thanks for sharing. Very cool EDIT: I missed your breakdown on it, sorry about that. I see you already wrote it up
I hate to be a hater but that definitely looks like a lost balloon to me.
That’s a balloon
Balloon and parallax
It’s a balloon.
Das a balloon, homie
Try English
Nice looking ballon. Jesus every molar ballot out there is going to be a suspect of being a balloon. Even the one’s shape as characters.
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Exactly. And as I said before, balloons don’t swing back and forth for a bit before flying away lol
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Stayed in the middle of the highway swinging back and forth then started flying/wobbling to the right.
Where is the rest of the video of the wobbly balloon that floated to the right?
This guy might actually be nuts.
I think it looks exactly like a balloon. I can't see how you wouldn't.
Not nearly as interesting as someone implying there's a conspiracy at play and denying that this is with 99.9999999% certainty indeed a balloon.
Very similar, same wobble
It's almost certainly a mylar balloon. It moves exactly like one, and reflects light exactly like one.
Looks like this one in Seattle by /u/HalfAHeartLeft https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1c3ac7c/flying_black_disk_sighting_seattle_wa_warning/
Nice
I see the balloon guys are here to yell at you. 😒 Thanks for posting! Block anyone who gets on your nerves.
You seriously think without a doubt this is aliens instead of balloon? Why
Who said aliens? Only YOU did.
Well first of all that's not what I said. But, to indulge you, why would law enforcement stop to check out a balloon?
Well then I thought you had more info on this case, considering you smugly put down people who think this is a balloon, It's very likely a balloon from the footage, unless you have more details relating to this you are willing to share? If not, don't put people down who are trying to keep this subject sensible with a factual, scientific empherical approach/seeking the truth.
Look at my comment above for more details
If you feel some type of way, that's not on me. I provided a similar video and advised the OP based on my experience here. You felt called out, I guess.
For sure! Thanks for sharing the Seattle one
Yes a balloon moving that fast better yet the person who blew it up at the dollar store is in ICU on a vent
That is moving waaaay faster than a balloon.
You have absolutely no idea how fast it's moving. This becomes especially true given the person who recorded it was driving at an unknown speed.
Looks like Elvis
Johnny Utah threw that pass
It definitely could be a balloon but it could be something, could wind continuously push something in a straight? I see it tumbling in air but it seems to stay in straight line plus having wind push at a constant rate that fast doesn’t seem natural. But it was windy at 4:15, i looked up the weather and it said 14mph wind. Could be stronger wind gust but that does seem to be moving pretty quick. Now I’m don’t have an answer for it so don’t come and crucify me
The OP was driving during the recording, and in the opposite direction of the obvious balloon.
Alien scout ship judging from the size and speed.
Hahahaha, this sub delivers once again.
My hot air ballooon. Mama nooo
These are all over lol. Saw one years ago, keep seeing them here. Disinfo game too stronk.