Posted on 06/21/2019 10:41:46 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Babb stopped short of confirming that the bright, white dot spotted by numerous News Center 7 viewers was indeed a DARPA balloon, however another spokesperson for DARPA said given the location it was likely one of their balloons.
Sightings of the object were reported Tuesday to News Center 7 from viewers in Xenia, Englewood, West Milton, West Carrollton and Eaton.
DARPA’s ALTA program’s balloons can fly at altitudes of more than 75,000 feet.
“While they do not have independent propulsion, the ALTA vehicle is designed to navigate by changing altitude and thus taking advantage of different wind profiles aloft,” according to DARPA’s website.
(Excerpt) Read more at whio.com ...
Let’s see. Dayton. Wright Patt. Weather ballon? Yes sir that’s the ticket .
Ha. I remember the Barney Miller episode with Wojo on the phone to... I think it was the FBI, saying, “What? I can’t tell them that! Oh come on! (sigh) Yes sir. Yes sir.” Then he hangs up and says sarcastically, “It’s a weather balloon.”
Swamp gas.
That’s interesting, they just had some white dots in the sky in Kansas City.
Hanger 18 was right there on the base. Just sayin’.
It’s either a weather balloon, or an intergalactic jellyfish. Not to offend any fans of The Abyss, but my money is on weather balloon.
Sometimes a white dot really is just a white dot......
Given the close proximity to Wright Patterson AFB, I would imagine this is likely.
Reminds me of the first time I saw a stealth fighter. My son was playing soccer in a tournament near there, in Englewood. You couldn’t hear one sound of an approaching jet, and then, out of nowhere, there it was right on top of us! Gave me goose bumps and sense of pride in my country.
“Given the close proximity to Wright Patterson AFB, I would imagine this is likely.”
Correction, I meant, unlikely to be a weather balloon.
It says in the article that DARPA uses balloons.
“That’s interesting, they just had some white dots in the sky in Kansas City.”
I was with my mother as she was hanging laundry one fine summer day in Nashville, I believe it was 1959. I looked up and their were three triangles hanging way up in the sky and I told my Mom to look. I then went back to playing with my dog.
“...the ALTA vehicle is designed to navigate by changing altitude and thus taking advantage of different wind profiles aloft”
People who are into High Altitude Balloon Photography are able to control their balloon flight and altitude. Amateur balloons get up to 115,000 feet. Their autonomously controlled balloons fly at 80,000 feet and have flown from California to Morocco.
I had some Blue Dots once............
About that same year on LI I was out at dusk in the back yard. All the neighbors were out in their yards looking up. I looked up and saw about 9 round discs with red lights in a formation of 3’s, 3 rows. Pretty low in the sky.
Very early memory for me.
Here’s some more detail about the DARPA program:
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a28136673/darpa-alta-ufo-sightings/
"To get back to the warning that I received. You may take it with however many grains of salt that you wish. That the brown acid that is circulating around us isn't too good. It is suggested that you stay away from that. Of course it's your own trip. So be my guest, but please be advised that there is a warning on that one, ok?" --- PA announcer at Woodstock
That actually does look like a weather balloon. Launching something in daylight over the place “where they took the aliens” does not seem like a good “test plan.”
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Ask monica.
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