UFO Solar Balloon!

[tybrady64]

Great design keeping large surface area exposed to noon day sun.

[rocflpn08]

at 0:25 did you put holes on the side of the balloon where the tapelines intersected?

[catman529]

@rocflpn08 Nope, it was aluminum foil added for effect.

[artisanglow]

What an idiot. Lock him up until Disclosure.

[12Crowns]

Why on earth would you call this a UFO???? It's man-made. You're only trying to debunk ACTUAL balloon-type UFO objects that are being spotted all over the world that do feats that defy the law of gravity. I am a witness so please stop trying to confuse people.

[catman529]

@12Crowns It was all done in good fun, no need to get worked up about it.

[12Crowns]

@catman529 I'm not "worked up". I just find it annoying for people to attach the word "UFO" to things man-made. And being a WITNESS & BELIEVER in ACTUAL "otherworldly" visitors who disguise themselves with "Balloon-like" cloaks and defying the laws of gravity and physics, I simply find it to be deceptive and rude. That's all. There are REAL visitations happening daily. The people don't need confusion. Be well.

[catman529]

@12Crowns Maybe it's just me but now I think you're even more worked up. Seriously calm down, I am not calling my balloon a real UFO, I am calling it a UFO because I designed it in the classic saucer shape that is so often attributed to UFO sightings. Ask people to think of a UFO, most of them will picture a saucer shaped object in their head. And since I designed my balloon after a flying saucer, there's no reason not to call it a UFO solar balloon.

[sqhschief]

@catman529 Yeah no kidding. I think this was awesome. What did you put on the 'if found' sign?

[catman529]

@sqhschief Thanks, I put contact info on the tag with a URL to my web site which has a contact form at the very bottom of the homepage for people who have found one of my balloons. I also wrote the date and location of release, plus a special ID for the balloon so I knew exactly which one was found if someone did find it. Unfortunately, nobody found this one.

[sqhschief]

@catman529 That's cool if someone would have contacted you to see how far it went. So these work by heat from the sun, or is it more of a hot air balloon with a flame at the bottom, I couldn't tell by the video.

[catman529]

@sqhschief It's completely solar powered, I have all the stuff I know about solar balloons on my web site. Although I do make some flame-powered balloons (sky lanterns) especially during the winter when they fly really well at night.

[maglight117]

@catman529 you have awesome vids sub'd

[catman529]

@maglight117 Thanks I appreciate it

[dibbers]

@12Crowns - so basically after watching this video I'm pretty much convinced that all the real UFOs were really just trash bags put into space by regular people. Thanks catman for the mythbusting!!

[catman529]

@Bridgirl11 Haha

[catman529]

@Bridgirl11 Joking or did you really find a balloon? if so then where do you live?

[ThirdDegreeWitch]

Did you get a response from the 'IF FOUND' tag ?  if so how many miles did it travel ?

[catman529]

@ThirdDegreeWitch Nope, nobody ever contacted me, so there's no saying if it was found or how far it flew. I'm guessing somewhere around 50 miles or so because it was mid-afternoon and the balloon was weighted and didn't gain a whole lot of altitude.

[nfig09]

how would a six year old boy float in a garbage bag powered by a candel...the danm thing wouldn't take off

[AcePilot101]

You trouble-makers have cost NASA $800 billion dollars.

Are you happy?



[catman529]

@AcePilot101 Hmm where do you get that figure?

[RCplanes102]

@AcePilot101 how??

[RCplanes102]

@AcePilot101 how do figure that?

[pentium3000]

lol trash bag technology

[vaultdweller123]

thanks for this video man, now i know not all i seen floating in the skies are UFO.

[ovniforos]

Have you tried adding leds to it ?

[catman529]

Not on a solar balloon because you wouldn't see them much in the full sunlight. I do want to put LEDs on a candle-powered UFO balloon and fly it at night - but I haven't gotten around to doing that yet.

[robfromorlando]

There wouldn't happen to be a 6 year-old kid named "Falcon" inside the balloon, would there???

[catman529]

lol, no, he was in a box in the attic.

Actually I just released another UFO balloon today - it being the second saucer-shaped solar balloon I have built. I will put together a video of it soon. I released it at the same park as the first one, and people were asking me if I was trying to get on the news, or if there was a 6 year old boy on board. lol. I said no, he's in a box in the attic. ;)

[ovniforos]

Close encounter of the trash kind !!

[jonnywoodsfansite]

wat did u fill it with ?

i wanna make 1 and chuck glow sticks in it

[catman529]

you can read the comments, or visit the web site. It's filled with air using a fan or blow dryer. It's a hot air balloon heated by the sun.

[BowlingFreak218]

did you leavve a whole at the bottom open?

[catman529]

There was a hole at the bottom that was left open. Except with tube balloons, I always leave a hole open at the bottom.

[BowlingFreak218]

this ufo also seems to have holes around the equator of the balloon. are they actually holes or does it just look like holes?

[Ilovecatssomuch21]

how did you kill the dog? did gary live?

[Ilovecatssomuch21]

poor dog!

[Ilovecatssomuch21]

that was cool!

[Ilovecatssomuch21]

i dout that

[catman529]

I think the majority of nerds are a lot smarter than the people who call them "retarded."

[bigdaddyinaustin]

I swear I saw one of those in Austin Sunday evening, or it may have been a real UFO. 2222 360 area

[vampirehunter33]

some body should go buy one of these then contact fox news and then tell them hey we also got one of the aliens frozen in a freezer

[imthekingoftheworld]

LOL!!

[adrianTNT]

Catman 529, how long should you let the balloon warm up? Does it help if you keep it in sun let's say 20 mins? Thanks.

[catman529]

They usually heat up in just a couple minutes. The larger, human-lifting solar balloons have to self-inflate for about 30 minutes before they can carry their payload, but these small ones are ready to fly almost as soon as they are full of air.

[cammo6901]

i wonder how many people seen that and were like "HOLY FUCKING SHIT OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD DO YOU SEE THIS RIGHT NOW" *calls mom*

[danleggymail]

Thanks for sending me this video. Good video I have seen this one before. How much weight can it lift?

A am going to make one of this balloons to lift up a giant plastic bag to pop but they weigh 300 grams per 100 feet.

[c9ari]

It would be fun to have some LEDs around the rim of it blinking.

[catman529]

I am planning to sometime build a helium-filled UFO balloon with LEDs that I will fly on a tether at night. I might even have the LEDs remote controlled, so I can raise the "ufo" without anyone seeing and then turn it on to make it sort of appear from nowhere.

[karrage]

Did anyone contact you after the release?

[catman529]

Unfortunately not...then it is always possible someone will find it a long time from now.

[catman529]

That's right.

[sledkite]

cool stuff and another good idea for my trashbag recycling

LoL

[catman529]

That's what I used - fishing line to flatten the profile. Otherwise it would have looked like a ball. I could design a flatter balloon than this one but it would hold less air and get less lift, but if I made it large enough it would fly fine.

[robfromorlando]

You should try metallic Mylar to make it shine in the sky...

[Insomniac535]

Nice idea, but it wouldn't work... its a solar balloon, it has to be black or it won't fly. Perhaps a big mylar streamer or somthing attached to the bottom would be better.

[johnsmdm]

saw this in Long Island 2 years ago.thanks for answering my wonder.

[catman529]

Saw a solar balloon? This one was released this past winter and wouldn't have made it to Long Island.

[modxred]

its cool how you have your own site where you can buy solar balloons.

[crazskater92]

Won nice. I would think that was real if i saw it.

[crazskater92]

wow*

[glad122912]

This is great video, I wish those people who watch all the other so called ufo videos could see this. Like I say dont belive everything you see.

[MasterTxJ]

I was waiting for someone to try this. Great job!

Will you be selling this type of balloon on your site? I cant get any garbage bags with the right thickness where I'm from (Sweden). Thx

[catman529]

Currently I don't sell this shape, but I have been considering it and will let you know if I decide to. It requires more work than the other balloons to build, but it's entirely possible.

[tomtom561]

im gullible

[tomtom561]

do you thinik anyone thought it was a ufo?

[catman529]

Don't know, that's what I hoped, but so far nothing has appeared in the news or on the Internet. I'm thinking a few of the more gullible people got fooled but nobody thought to report it. It looked a lot like a UFO when it reached a few hundred feet in altitude, and flew over a busy road so a lot of people saw it.

[tomtom561]

Yeah.

[catman529]

Well, it depends on the mall. There would have to be large windows on the roof to let the sun in, and they would probably kick you out anyway. It's about 9 feet wide. A better idea would be to let it go outside the building, and let it fly overhead.

[tomtom561]

Awesome! you think its illigel to let one go in a mall?

[catman529]

Do you mean, like inside a mall?

[alvinandme]

is it filled with helium or air?

[catman529]

It's filled with air, and the sun heats it up. It's basically a mini hot air balloon, but you don't have to heat it yourself. Check my site, it has all the info you need.

[AgentEnigma]

Interesting