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UFO over Kentucky- Oct 16, 2012
« on: 10/25/2012 01:08 pm »
I'm not a "UFO nut", to me, this thing looks like an upper stage of some launch vehicle. I was hoping someone on the forum could ID it.

If this thread is in the wrong place, or is deemed inappropriate for this fourm, please move or delete it. Thanks.

http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/Man-Captures-Pictures-of-Reported-UFO-175595631.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/24/cylindrical-ufo-videotaped-amateur-astronomer_n_2011817.html

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Re: UFO over Kentucky- Oct 16, 2012
« Reply #1 on: 10/25/2012 01:33 pm »
Visible for Two hours? Me suspect it was something else, maybe some sort of (weather?) balloon? Solar Balloon?
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Re: UFO over Kentucky- Oct 16, 2012
« Reply #2 on: 10/26/2012 04:21 am »
Sure look like an inflatable river rafting boat, perhaps inflated with Helium?
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Re: UFO over Kentucky- Oct 16, 2012
« Reply #3 on: 10/26/2012 05:45 am »
The object fits within the technical and budgetary capabilities of at least one nation on earth.  :)

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Re: UFO over Kentucky- Oct 16, 2012
« Reply #4 on: 10/26/2012 01:40 pm »
« Last Edit: 10/26/2012 01:47 pm by kevin-rf »
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Re: UFO over Kentucky- Oct 16, 2012
« Reply #5 on: 10/26/2012 01:59 pm »
swamp gas

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Re: UFO over Kentucky- Oct 16, 2012
« Reply #6 on: 10/26/2012 04:45 pm »
swamp gas

Reflecting the light from Venus. ;)
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Re: UFO over Kentucky- Oct 16, 2012
« Reply #7 on: 10/26/2012 08:22 pm »
swamp gas

Pretty sure it's not swamp gas, per the Air Force Identification Chart
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Re: UFO over Kentucky- Oct 16, 2012
« Reply #8 on: 10/26/2012 08:47 pm »
swamp gas

not much swamp gas in Kentucky...

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Re: UFO over Kentucky- Oct 16, 2012
« Reply #9 on: 10/26/2012 09:26 pm »
Having seen the pictures now, I don't think it was a weather balloon because the envelope was transparent and the wrong shape.  I think it may have been the gas bag for a lighter-than-air observation drone of some kind intended to be low-observability.  That's just a guess but it definitely looked like a blimp of some weird sort.
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Re: UFO over Kentucky- Oct 16, 2012
« Reply #10 on: 10/26/2012 10:01 pm »
Having seen the pictures now, I don't think it was a weather balloon because the envelope was transparent and the wrong shape.  I think it may have been the gas bag for a lighter-than-air observation drone of some kind intended to be low-observability.  That's just a guess but it definitely looked like a blimp of some weird sort.

To my eyes, the shape seems a natural setup to support a solar cell array between or above the two possibly-inflated "booms". 

I hope it is ours.  ;)

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« Last Edit: 10/26/2012 10:12 pm by edkyle99 »

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Re: UFO over Kentucky- Oct 16, 2012
« Reply #11 on: 10/26/2012 11:40 pm »
Having seen the pictures now, I don't think it was a weather balloon because the envelope was transparent and the wrong shape.  I think it may have been the gas bag for a lighter-than-air observation drone of some kind intended to be low-observability.  That's just a guess but it definitely looked like a blimp of some weird sort.

To my eyes, the shape seems a natural setup to support a solar cell array between or above the two possibly-inflated "booms". 

I hope it is ours.  ;)

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Re: UFO over Kentucky- Oct 16, 2012
« Reply #12 on: 10/27/2012 02:06 am »
My eyes say a clear cylinder and the two pontoons are optical effects in the edges of the cylinder. I suspect it was someone who likes playing with large balloons.
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Re: UFO over Kentucky- Oct 16, 2012
« Reply #13 on: 10/27/2012 02:15 pm »
Having seen the pictures now, I don't think it was a weather balloon because the envelope was transparent and the wrong shape.  I think it may have been the gas bag for a lighter-than-air observation drone of some kind intended to be low-observability.  That's just a guess but it definitely looked like a blimp of some weird sort.

To my eyes, the shape seems a natural setup to support a solar cell array between or above the two possibly-inflated "booms". 

I hope it is ours.  ;)

 - Ed kyle

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I suspect that they already "have" it.  ;)

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Re: UFO over Kentucky- Oct 16, 2012
« Reply #14 on: 10/28/2012 12:44 pm »
In some of my research I came across information indicating that the US intelligence community was developing various "spy balloon" projects during the 1960s and maybe even into the 1980s. And we know that the Soviets in the 1970s into the 1980s were developing a high-altitude aircraft with a cannon on its top for shooting at balloons above it--leading to the obvious question: "What balloons?"

We know about the Moby Dick and Genetrix projects of the 1950s, and it has generally been accepted that these efforts ended during the Eisenhower information. However, I obtained declassified documents referring to balloon projects in the early 1960s, and there is a very intriguing photo (I have it somewhere) of a large photographic payload designed to be carried by a balloon, apparently dating from the late 1960s.

I was talking about this to a fellow researcher once and he said that I should talk to a specific balloon expert (I forget who). That person had been involved in the development of high-altitude balloons and "balloon trains" (essentially strings of balloons--perhaps they required multiple balloons because the material available would not allow them to build a single large balloon). I never followed up.

I don't think this sighting has anything to do with that. I suspect that the spotter's estimate that the balloon was at 100,000 feet is a wild guess (how can you make that determination when you don't have radar or an idea of the actual size of the object?). I'm just offering this information because I'm bored.

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Re: UFO over Kentucky- Oct 16, 2012
« Reply #15 on: 10/28/2012 08:03 pm »
The Daily Mail of Britain had a photo of a convection-heating propelled toy helium balloon that looks a lot like the photos. I guess one could have got away from its owner or something.
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Re: UFO over Kentucky- Oct 16, 2012
« Reply #16 on: 10/29/2012 12:59 am »
One morning I drove east before sunrise and a bright light was stationary to the north over the Santa Catalinas. Brighter than Venus at dusk. For a few minutes, the sun was at the perfect angle to hit the (as it turned out via telescope spotter) mylar weather balloon squarely on its tapering, flanking underside. Once home, the sun had risen, the angle diminished, much lower reflection. So did the OP object generate its own luminosity or was it borrowing a perfect sun reflection?

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