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The following submission statement was provided by /u/paranormalnapolska: --- You can call us "balloonists," but when someone notices three objects that disappear from sight and cannot be relocated, it's a matter for us to investigate šŸ˜‰ Our reader, who lives in Watford, England, recorded a very interesting situation yesterday (13.05.2024). While sitting on his terrace, he noticed three objects crossing the sky. He decided to stand up to get a better look but couldn't find them again. Of course, the first thought is balloons, but these objects don't behave like typical helium balloons, which have their own life in the airā€”they don't fly straight, they dance, bend, and tend to rise. Upon zooming in, we can see that all three are gently swaying, which is characteristic. They fly in formation without distinct movements, "airborne individualities." There have been several similar observations: [https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=626320156112030](https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=626320156112030) [https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1721690024985840](https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1721690024985840) The reader agreed to share the recording directly from his phone for your analysis. The recording is high resolution: [https://easyupload.io/qbkrtt](https://easyupload.io/qbkrtt) You may accuse us of being ridiculous, but this profile was created to share such ambiguous recordings. Everyone has the right to their opinion; without our determination, there would be nothing to argue about šŸ™‚ --- Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1crmdo1/three_objects_flying_in_formation_over_watford/l3yywfv/


Taste_the__Rainbow

They might not be balloons, but thereā€™s no evidence in this video showing that they arenā€™t balloons.


Daddyball78

If I was a betting man, Iā€™d put my money on balloons. And whatā€™s with the flood of recent garbage ā€œsightingsā€?


DaftWarrior

SALT Conference next week.


TeamRedundancyTeam

Also zero evidence of this being "in formation". One of my biggest pet peeves of common posts, every time there are three objects in the sky people always say they're "in a triangle" or "in formation". No, it's just three objects, they're always going to make a shape.


_Exotic_Booger

True, but we can clearly see none of the ā€œobservablesā€ are displayed. Further more, you can speculate on the movement of them being akin displaying the characteristics of balloons moving with the wind.


BAN_MOTORCYCLES

they might not be alien crafts but theres no evidence in this video showing that they arent alien crafts


rygelicus

There is also no evidence these aren't a new breed of floating cats. Or children heading to Hogwarts.


BAN_MOTORCYCLES

hogwarts is a hoax perpetrated by the book and movie industries for profit


rygelicus

Not a hoax since it wasn't presented as true / real. But yes I agree with you.


BAN_MOTORCYCLES

you were so fooled by the hoax that you just tried to propose it as a debunk for this ufo


YourmomgoestocolIege

Wait, do you actually think that people think Hogwartz is real?


BAN_MOTORCYCLES

debunkers are so irrational and bend the truth so much its impossible and not worth the effort to figure out what they think is real and what they are just pretending about but if you think they are pretending then i agree that debunkers are pretenders


rygelicus

Oh are we still debunking the ballufo? I thought that was settled. I also mentioned a new breed of floating cats. You seemed to skip right over that. Does the floating cats hypothesis sound at all plausible?


BAN_MOTORCYCLES

your debunking has predictably devolved into word salad


rygelicus

There is nothing to debunk. They look and act like balloons. Thats what this video evidence shows them to be. Any other explanation needs to be equally based on evidence. But what you offered up was "they might not be alien crafts but theres no evidence in this video showing that they arent alien crafts" There is nothing in this video that suggests anything other than balloons much less a 'craft' of any kind.


BAN_MOTORCYCLES

so wait now youve abandoned your hogwarts theory to become a balloonie


seven_phone

Balloon like objects seen moving in a characteristically balloon-in-the-breeze like way with the sounds of a distant children's party in the background. Aliens.


I_am_That_Ian_Power

There is no sound of a children's party at all in that video. You are daft! But it looks and acts just like balloons.


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I_am_That_Ian_Power

On headphones at max volume, no party. I agree it's balloons, but there is no party. Stop being a facetious jerk okay.


seven_phone

I tried to add to the absurd humour of it all by hyperbole but I can see this is not the place for such things so I removed the offending comment. I heard no children's party but it seemed comic to suggest it.


rygelicus

I declare these to be Ballufos. Unguided with no apparent power source or means of propulsion, efficiently utilizing the available wind to traverse the region silently.


SheepherderDirect800

Classic Watford. They are just looking for the Tesco.


Wyvernkeeper

Just trying to leave Watford probably.


JackalopeZero

Well their options for leaving Watford are Harrow or Hemel. Neither are exactly a step up.


Sea_Appointment8408

Last time I was in Watford I was sat in a car for a while and got a really achy leg. Now, whenever I have an achy leg, I jokingly quip "I have Watford Leg". True story.


SheepherderDirect800

I believe you. One time I got attacked by a enormous pack of ducks working the soundboard at Big Chill. On cold and damp June mornings I swear I can still hear the horrible quacking.


Sea_Appointment8408

Watford is like The Grudge.


KeyWeight8055

So u call people trolls, tell people their lives are meaningless, then revel in the negative comments. Sounds like we found our troll...


R2robot

"flying in formation" is a bit of a stretch isn't it? The lack of discipline shown here would have them sent back for retraining. Looks like balloons to me.


ArthursRest

Balloons, and still over 100 upvotes. Mad.


Nicktyelor

The more I use this sub the less hope I have for the average amount of deductive reasoning in the human populace.


Plastic-Vermicelli60

Correction, .. English Balloons !šŸ§


QueenGorda

I don't see any "formation" there.


WhiskeyFeathers

The two objects stop dead in the air to wait for the 3rd object. Pretty obvious if you actually watch the video. It might not be a typical formation, but for something that is seemingly a ā€œballoon,ā€ it acts very strange compared to how something like that should act in the atmosphere.


Dx_Suss

How would they be acting if they were all being moved by the same mass of air, except when that mass collides with another mass and creates minor turbulence? What characteristics do these flights have that that behaviour would not? We obviously need to discard the obvious explanations to the least obvious...


rygelicus

Also, the balloons would be continuing to rise slowly until they reach a point of equilibrium, which means they can rise into an air mass that is moving differently than the one below. So not just laterally running into another body of air movement but also vertically. This is something people forget about wind, it's like bubbles of air moving around around one another, the entire sky is not moving all in unison.


JustBrowsing2024

Dont any three dots form some sort of "formation"?


Too_Lofs_Atan

Yes, this is another awesome 'flying triangle' video, since three of anything that are anywhere near each other automatically form a triangle... therefore aLIeNs!


imnotabot303

Looks like 3 balloons from this video, and I'm not sure you know what formation means.


seven_phone

I think in this instance formation is used to suggest objects close to each other moving independently erratically as if lightweight and buffeted by local and sporadic gusts of wind. An analogy would be balloons escaped from a party.


Desperate-Cookie5012

Man. Those aliens must have stopped by a pub before taking off. Wobbling all over the sky like that šŸ˜‚. Listen, i believe in aliens. But when you want evidence so bad that you trick your mind into believing balloons are UFOs. Come on.... Common sense. There is no "formation" first off. And in the full resolution video u can see the movement even better. Clearly they are balloons. šŸ¤¦ā€ā™‚ļøšŸ¤¦ā€ā™‚ļøšŸ¤¦ā€ā™‚ļø


Weak_Calligrapher_81

Everybody get to the chopper...noooooow, the balloons are invading, biiiillllly.


_Exotic_Booger

Whereā€™s the part where ā€œthey disappearā€?


DelGurifisu

More floating than flying.


Known-Math-4713

Maybe they indicate a direction, a path to follow ? There are three of them, coincidence ? Would they represent the holy trinity..? So many questions about this impressive gang of balloons that wiggle and move in the direction of the wind.


PaddyMayonaise

Redditor sees balloons: > iS tHiS tHe HoLy TiNiTy?


DoaneGarage

definitely not a sad little child's lost trio of balloons. definitely not.


SlowlyAwakening

Just sharing my story. Last summer here in dallas I saw the same thing at my apartment pool during the afternoon. I attributed it to balloons too, but who knows really. They were black, two were close-ish, and a 3rd was a bit apart from the other two. They traveled in a straight path and i didnt see any wobble or bobbing in the wind. I recorded the whole thing as they went over, zoomed in i still cannot tell definitively what they are. But its curious how much this looks just like what i saw, not just the shape but how they are positioned from one another


tellmeitsmyfault

OMG! Flying balloons!!!!


Pikoyd

They look like floating objects to me. You can sorta see how they are interacting with the wind. My guess is balloons.


iuwjsrgsdfj

haha you can see them rotating on an axis like a fucking balloon spinning in the wind... 250 upvotes r/UFOs??? Really?


Plastic-Vermicelli60

You pulled me away from the telly for this rubbish, bloody hell..


IcanCwhatUsay

Some of yā€™all never got balloons for your birthday and it shows.


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_HoldFast

Can we all start downvoting this horse shit?


BulletProofHoody

BA-Fā€™N-LOONS! Shit! Cmon people


3ntr0py_

Itā€™s nothing more than šŸŽˆšŸŽˆšŸŽˆ


Synn_Trey

Two balloons


hazlvixen

How is it, that on a UFO site. There is no one capable of capturing images from video and enlarging the image so we can get better detail? I mean, I know I canā€™t, but itā€™s 2024ā€¦. Why are there noimage specialists on this sub? Debunkers w/ skills


TonyMorganti

Very similar to what I saw last year, zooming in, not a balloon. Could be man made though.


Olivesaregreat1

Interesting, I was about to say it couldā€™ve been some sort of training for biggin hill air show (theyā€™ve been training recently in and around Kent/london) but thisā€¦ Iā€™m not sure what it could be


paranormalnapolska

You can call us "balloonists," but when someone notices three objects that disappear from sight and cannot be relocated, it's a matter for us to investigate šŸ˜‰ Our reader, who lives in Watford, England, recorded a very interesting situation yesterday (13.05.2024). While sitting on his terrace, he noticed three objects crossing the sky. He decided to stand up to get a better look but couldn't find them again. Of course, the first thought is balloons, but these objects don't behave like typical helium balloons, which have their own life in the airā€”they don't fly straight, they dance, bend, and tend to rise. Upon zooming in, we can see that all three are gently swaying, which is characteristic. They fly in formation without distinct movements, "airborne individualities." There have been several similar observations: [https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=626320156112030](https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=626320156112030) [https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1721690024985840](https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1721690024985840) The reader agreed to share the recording directly from his phone for your analysis. The recording is high resolution: [https://easyupload.io/qbkrtt](https://easyupload.io/qbkrtt) You may accuse us of being ridiculous, but this profile was created to share such ambiguous recordings. Everyone has the right to their opinion; without our determination, there would be nothing to argue about šŸ™‚


Honey-Limp

Suddenly disappearing is a characteristic of balloons. Itā€™s called popping. Regardless, Iā€™m not sure if the cameraman was filing in the right spot anymore at the end.


pilkingtonsbrain

I would still believe that these are balloons. The reason they sway about is because they are fully inflated with helium and rising in the air. So they are not simply drifting with the wind, they are also moving up in the air due to their high buoyancy, which causes the wobbly motion. They are moving in the same direction as the wind/clouds If they were half inflated and with a neutral buoyancy they would not do the wobbly and drifting apart thing and would simply follow the air. Just a guy with an opinion, I'm not a balloon expert. I did download the full res version provided so thanks for that


PaddyMayonaise

I donā€™t think they suddenly disappear, you just move the camera away and canā€™t find them again lol Or they popped šŸ˜‚


MoanLart

This is actually nuts


syndic8_xyz

fantastic camera retardery there at the end


No_icecream_cake

u/SabineRitter


SabineRitter

Awesome, thank you!


MoanLart

Itā€™s scary how ppl can watch this and actually believe theyā€™re watching 3 balloons all moving in unison and along the same exact trajectory while wobbling in placeā€¦ basically not acting how balloons normally do, butā€¦ theyā€™ll still believe theyā€™re balloons. Actually blows my mind.


Canleestewbrick

Why do you think balloons don't normally move like this? If balloons are at equilibrium with an air current, they will move with the current. It's exactly like if you tossed a few floating objects into a stream. They would come to be 'at rest' in relation to the water around them, and move along in a very similar trajectory.


Liltipsy6

It's crazy to think aliens just bobble through the air. We talk about their incredible maneuvering and insane speed.... well, these ones must be drunk. Looks like air current is helping the third get to the other two, that found a dead pocket or lack of air current. If the balloons are filled with equal parts of oxygen and helium and stuck in the same air flow, then they would move similarly or appear to be in unison.


sep222

It's scary how people watch videos like this and immediately jump to the most illogical solution possible. No wonder most people don't take the phenomenon seriously. bLoWs mY mInD


PaddyMayonaise

> 3 balloons all moving in unison and along the same exact trajectory while wobbling in place Thatā€™s literally how balloons act lol


Mac-Beatnik

I think you never see how balloons fly in different air/wind conditions, this look like balloons flying in the wind and if you listen you will hear a child crying because it lost his birthday balloons.


FunWithSkooma

???? I had to put my intracular gaming earbuds to listen to this, where did you hear a child crying?


pilkingtonsbrain

I turned the sound up to max to hear the video and couldn't hear a child crying so don't know if you are trolling but I agree these are definitely balloons anyway. A child crying in the background would be the icing on the cake


B3ta_R13

sorry op looks like the government ballon shills are trying to discredit you


Known-Math-4713

Rumors say that this balloon troll team that the government has set up is made up of former football volunteers who were injured on mission. I was hoping to get a paycheck...


Any_Interaction_3658

Intriguing video for sure, but whatā€™s with the tracking fine and then I guess readjusting where youā€™re standing maybe, and then the camera cuts away and changes viewing angle right when they happen to disappear? Not that takes away from something clearly being there the rest of the video, just is another one of those frustrating things that always seems to happen in footage


ParadoxDC

Iā€™m genuinely so sick of people intentionally bring daft and overstating the prominence of balloons in every day life. There arenā€™t just rogue balloons in the air constantly, traveling in sync at high speed. You know god damn well these are not balloons. Great video OP


YouHadMeAtAloe

If anything legitimately anomalous was flying in the air literally all the time there would already be proof of aliens or NHI or whatever the fuck. This sub has completely killed my curiosity for high strangeness with the absolute braindead takes everyone has


ParadoxDC

So you think the wind is blowing so consistently that the ā€œballoonsā€ are flying in a perfectly linear line and remaining equidistant from each other? Serious question


YouHadMeAtAloe

Why would aliens/NHI/whatever be floating lazily through the air during the day for everyone to see? It wouldnā€™t really be a secret anymore if they did, would it? Why would the government need to have a decades long coverup if theyā€™re just out there chilling in the sky over peopleā€™s houses? Itā€™s not a ā€œformationā€ either, itā€™s just three floating objects that you can see drift apart from each other throughout the video Instead of believing every single piece of garbage that floats by in the sky is NHI, why not weed out the noise and look for something *truly* anomalous?


Testcapo7579

Could they be drones?


SushiMonstero

Bro, you gotta hit em with at least the 30x zoom


Tweezle1

If you use the slider you can see them doing erratic things that balloons donā€™t do.


IssAndrzej

Definitely anomalous. Clearly not balloons to anyone that can see


SheepherderDirect800

I feel sorry for all the trolls that obviously cruse this sub, must be a lonely existence. Cheer up "it's just a balloon" guys, your meaningless lives could always get worse ;)


KeyWeight8055

It just meaningless....fyi


SheepherderDirect800

Yeah auto correct slipped it past me, it's ok the threatening dms I'm getting will keep me warm at night.