Committee for Skeptical Inquiry - UFO Balloons

[mrbubetube]

hahahahaha!

[dlandbob]

Thats because the camera is trying to focus on them and that causes them to look like they are blinking. But living by Disneyland my entire life, you can tell what balloons look like, if not. I wont say.

[MEL3D]

shape are very simillar, but not all UFO Fleet footages moves like those, i recorded some UFO over Buenos Aires City where ilive, and i recordedballons too, the differences are important, velocity and movements are thepoint, not so much the shape.

[twasbrillig33]

These were not mylar balloons, these were white balloons, why did you go and confuse the issue. But you certainly proved your point that balloons can look like the UFOs that disguise themselves as balloons =)

[gnrands50]

This vid reminds me of the story of the band Pink Floyd when they were photographing the cover for their '70's era album: "Animals". A giant helium-filled balloon shaped like a pig broke loose from its moorings and flew off. A short while later an airline pilot radioed in that he had just seen a "pink elephant" at 10,000 feet. I don't know if this story is apocryphal but folks will see what they want to see anyway.

[ZachVMNTX1]

I love all these UFO people saying you cannot 100% prove that is was balloons in the video so I am going to remain certain that it is a spaceship from 1000's of lightyears away, built by aliens who came to master travel through time and space just to stick a probe up a redneck's ass or some junk . far enough away with the right wind the balloons in the video could've only appeared stationary.

[rignut]

Those balloons never stop moving, you can not have a shot of them where they are stationary for 15 seconds. I am not convinced. Nice try though.

[GerbenMills]

Now make them lit up, so they will emit light seeable from a mile away, without the balloon popping (or rising) from the heat.

[alfadown]

its ufo!! we are all die!!!!!!!!!!!

[lordrazi111693]

i hate the way the term UFO came to mean ALIENS!!!!!

unidentified flying object could be many things. the man was right to call it a UFO.

because he couldn't identify it!!!!!!!

[waltermh111]

@lordrazi111693 i agree with you and i was thinking the same.

I ignored the first stories because its a non-story with only video.

It was a UFO, but didnt have to be aliens.

To jump to the conclusion that its aliens is warped. Theres simply no reason whatsoever to believe it is unless you just want it to be so.

It could be so for sure, just nothing to come to that conclusion.

[heancaze]

@lordrazi111693 think ppl should stop calling flying objects they can't identify UFO, ppl aren't flight-controll and have no means of even identifying that witch they know are passinger airplanes.

[WayAboveYou700]

UFO is just another fairytale for dumb masses....

[LordNapalm]

Litter bugs :P

[TeenTwinkTween]

People see what they want to see, ie, the preconceived notitions in their mind.

[h0tsex0r]

CFI's publicity stunt revealed

[Violent2aShadow]

People, don't you get it? The aliens are disguising their space craft to LOOK like our weather balloons!

[sonnygll]

So they were UFOs, and now they are IFOs.

[RaminHAL9001]

The flashing could be emulated in the video if it were taken with a lens that could change its depth of field. Moving the balloons slightly in-and-out of focus on a clear blue background would make it seem like they were flashing, when really they would just be going in focus and then bluring away very quickly. That wouldn't work in the Center for Inquiry's reproduction here because there were clouds in the background and you would notice the focus changing, unlike in the "authentic" video.

[YouOughtToHearThis]

@RaminHAL9001 And so, there wlil be an mass-collaboration going on in NY, to make this happeninig plausilble... And all the people on the streets in Chelsea gazing on the sky, where actors....?

[ArranoGris]

Time for me to be the technical linguistic jerk I am. If UFO stands for unidentified flying object then yes...these were UFOs. They saw something flying that they couldn't identify, so to them it's a UFO. Of course, most everyone actually means "space ship" when they say "UFO". I do know how exhilarating it can be to see something in the sky that you can't figure out right away. I saw an ISS flyover when walking my dog once. I just didn't jump to conclusions.

[nahu182]

there werent all ballons... there where more ufos than ballons

[coldblood274]

Were these baloons in the air as long as the ufos in newyork were?

[themsfightinwoids]

Looks like them-there demon-piloted UFO's that Nephilimfree says he keeps seein'... The apocaplypse must be a-comin'!!

[YouOughtToHearThis]

you didn't emulate the flashing.... 

[ArranoGris]

@YouOughtToHearThis It doesn't matter that they didn't emulate the flashing. When something unknown is seen in the sky it is just that...unknown.

[YouOughtToHearThis]

@ArranoGris Well...., then tjhe experiment and emulation is inconclusive and NOT valid...right?

[ArranoGris]

@YouOughtToHearThis I'd say it's a much more plausible explanation for what the people in the original video saw than any kind of spacecraft.

[YouOughtToHearThis]

@ArranoGris Your'e reffering to THE 'original' video... What aout ALL the original videos of 13'th... And not to mention all the eyewitneses, claiming this was NOT balloon, based on their perception of the phenomen. How many balloons get released over (or in the vinicity of) NY each year, and stay stationery at that alitude for such an pariod of time, and create such an media fuzz like this...