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Mysterious Flying Object Identified
ktla. ^ | May 19, 2009

Posted on 05/19/2009 11:49:34 AM PDT by JoeProBono

PHOENIX -- A mysterious UFO-like sighting that created a stir in Arizona and New Mexico has been identified.

NASA officials say the flying orb spotted Monday was a giant research balloon, not an alien spacecraft.

Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor says people were calling him about the object all afternoon.

Bill Stepp of NASA's Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Palestine, Texas, says the flying object was a 4,000-pound NASA research balloon used to measure gamma ray emissions.

The balloon usually floats at 130,000 feet and can be seen for about 170 miles on a clear day.

One witness said the object looked like the gigantic bubble from the Wizard of Oz.

Some said the object appeared to be motionless in the sky.


TOPICS: UFO's; Weather; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: palestine; ufo; weatherballoons
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To: madamemayhem
The small ones can take your breath away


21 posted on 05/19/2009 12:42:31 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: DBrow
They're after our children


22 posted on 05/19/2009 12:44:54 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono
Glinda descends on Phoenix!


23 posted on 05/19/2009 12:49:04 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (Obamanation: an imploding administration headed by a clueless schmuck, with McCain as his Kowakian)
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To: COBOL2Java
Alien Abduction


24 posted on 05/19/2009 12:53:29 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: Alex Murphy

(grin)


25 posted on 05/19/2009 1:01:50 PM PDT by snarks_when_bored
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To: mysterio

What idiot in this day and age wouldn’t have correctly identified this object as a weather/research balloon? Oh yeah, I forgot. Many people are recent victims of our public school system.


26 posted on 05/19/2009 1:06:29 PM PDT by Desron13 (If you constantly vote between the lesser of two evils then evil is your ultimate destination.)
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To: An.American.Expatriate

Klaatu. Barada. Nicto.


27 posted on 05/19/2009 1:06:48 PM PDT by Sudetenland (Partial-birth abortions are state sanctioned torture/murder.)
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To: Sudetenland

28 posted on 05/19/2009 1:09:18 PM PDT by Sudetenland (Partial-birth abortions are state sanctioned torture/murder.)
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To: Sudetenland

Can someone please photoshop a dancing Gort.


29 posted on 05/19/2009 1:13:42 PM PDT by ZeitgeistSurfer (Caution, Obama Zombies Ahead!)
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To: ZeitgeistSurfer

bttt


30 posted on 05/19/2009 1:14:21 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: ZeitgeistSurfer

31 posted on 05/19/2009 1:19:37 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (If you like the Dept. of Motor Vehicles, the IRS, and the Post Office, you'll love govt Health Care)
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To: traderrob6

Are you sure? It looks like a bubble of swamp gas to me.


32 posted on 05/19/2009 1:47:11 PM PDT by paleocongeezer
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To: JoeProBono
Could it have been this?


33 posted on 05/19/2009 2:04:13 PM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: Sudetenland
Klaatu. Barada. Nicto. Ga Ga


34 posted on 05/19/2009 2:18:39 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: a fool in paradise
Gort is insulted. Gort has much more rhythm.
35 posted on 05/19/2009 2:29:53 PM PDT by ZeitgeistSurfer (Caution, Obama Zombies Ahead!)
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To: pfflier
Could they say it is a balloon because it is a balloon?

Don't be silly.

36 posted on 05/19/2009 8:29:49 PM PDT by An.American.Expatriate (Here's my strategy on the War against Terrorism: We win, they lose. - with apologies to R.R.)
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To: JoeProBono

Damn, that girl ain’t gone through puberty, yet.


37 posted on 05/20/2009 4:58:00 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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