All Balloonery

Friday, August 21st, 2009

Weather balloons are frequently trotted out as an ‘explanation’ for UFO reports but what do we know about them? What contribution have balloons genuinely made to the UFO enigma? NIGEL WATSON investigates.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a UFO? No, it’s a weather balloon – honest.

When all else fails the authorities and sceptics claim that a supposed observation of an extraterrestrial vehicle was really a rogue ‘weather balloon’ seen in unusual circumstances.

Supporters of the esoteric origins of UFOs are more likely to think that the real gas bags involved in the sighting of such objects are the sceptics breathing out the old ‘it was a weather balloon’ explanation.

We all have a vague idea that meteorological organisations in most countries regularly launch these balloons to monitor the state of our weather systems, but can they be responsible for so many puzzling UFO sightings? Lets find out some more about these things before we can say for certain…

The rest of this article can be read in Paranormal Magazine issue 39

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