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Also, not saying a balloon is the only explanation, it could have been an experimental or even traditional aircraft too far off for details, that sank be,ow the horizon too. The point I think is that there are other plausible exp,abating that an objective researcher should consider and present to the public so the public can make up their mind. On the gates show, o ly one ‘possible 3xplanation’ was co sidered as possible, leaving the viewers to think it couldn’t have been a thing but alien

"it could have been an experimental or even traditional aircraft too far off for details, that sank be,ow [sic] the horizon too.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that you have absolutely zero experience in aviation or with maritime navigation and naval combat targeting systems, right? The incident you're trying to explain away as something 'sinking below the horizon' is captured on an FLIR camera on the deck of a littoral combat ship USS Omaha, a navy ship that it outfitted with advance passive-scanned array radar, the GIRRAF system. That system, integrated with a number of other combat and navigation sensors provides the CIC with one of most advanced combat targeting system known to man.

In the video, the radar operator is talking to the COOL, the combat information center officer. You can hear the operator call out bearing and range. IOW, they know exactly what the heading of the object is, what the height of the object is, what the speed of the object is and - the most important one when it comes to directing naval gunfire - what the range to target is.

Neither the operator nor the COOL presume the the object has 'sank below the horizon' and instead both conclude immediately that it's in the water. Why? Because they know what the range to target is and they know what the radar horizon is of their GIRRAF system (incidentally, that system systems can see beyond the optical horizon which is a requisite of directing beyond the horizon SAS missiles). They know that the target, whatever it was, was easily within their radar horizon and that's how they knew immediately it splashed. As a littoral combat ship, immediately being able to identify bearing and mark of a splash like that is a critical mission requirement. IOW, doing what they did is part of their mission brief.

While this is a fascinating subject that involves incidents that often defies explanation even for people who work have decades of operational experience at sea and with these systems, it's AMAZING - in the worst possible way - how people who have no understanding of the relevant subjects think they've figured it out.