Committee for Skeptical Inquiry - UFO Balloons

On July 13, 2003, the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry was sent a video taken by two local witnesses showing three small dots flying through the sky.

It was reported to be a UFO sighting.

After several experiments, we were able to show that releasing silver mylar balloons filled with helium created a strikingly similar effect.

The flashing is likely caused by the camera's autofocus trying to find enough detail to focus on.

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Science & Technology

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• ufo
• commitee for skeptical inquiry
• csi
• csicop

[sonnygll]

So they were UFOs, and now they are IFOs.

[themsfightinwoids]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.