We pulled over on the side of the road and got the binoculars out. It was not a balloon at all. It was a standard issue, very typical triangle craft--3RB or some such designation in the literature.
It was very high up and quite a long ways South and a bit West of us. It hung motionless in the sky. A balloon at that height would not have been motionless.
But it was clearly the typical 3RB triangle craft with lights on each corner and a larger light in the center on the underside. We watched it for about 20 minutes. The latter part of that, we pulled into a relative's yard and he, wife and neighbors all saw it. Eventually it 'drifted' off higher and further South, out of sight.
The description of the object was written as this:
“It was all white, featureless, oblong”
This doesn’t describe a black, three point object, either, unfortunately. There are a lot of possibilities to this but none of them, in my opinion, are based upon what it was but more like what they saw. I wasn’t there, so I didn’t see it. I have seen other things from the area I’m from that have had a number of “sightings.” But none shaped like this. Why, I don’t know because the only military site close by is Naval Air Station Lemoore and many times it was across the valley from the sightings.
We just don’t have enough to really define this with the information we have. But in my personal observation, ever since the first committees of Project Sign up through Blue Book they have made the effort to disprove anything with tools like swamp gas and ball lightening.
rwood