orb's over kansas

[space otter]

another weather balloon story..bwhahahahahaha
this one might be true 

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kansas-city-orb-ufos_n_5d0c3ed0e4b07ae90d9a9ded?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaHVmZnBvc3QuY29tLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADxYlM2Qs5ZtNKe15Kgqwhm5mCo6D_X8L_aE9hsPSHFFb3f6Lfr038cwsgLf88Tv17gVI2hqLPSg-ivN5kS0pZ5O_nugQoX8Fd2POggB1VDujcAzg-VzCfJHeLLNLptvD6GCS3vCx51aN5an0CSaOk7A-haZI8kJ-sVfykFeGg-8

WEIRD NEWS 06/21/2019 05:28 am ET
Mystery Orbs Over Kansas City Freak Everyone Out, Even National Weather Service
"We honestly have no explanation for the floating objects over Kansas City."
By Ed Mazza

The National Weather Service kicked off a wave of questions, jokes and frenzied speculation on Thursday with a tweet about a series of orbs floating over the Kansas City area.

Amidst a wave of sightings, the agency's Kansas City office tweeted:


NWS Kansas City
✔
@NWSKansasCity
We honestly have no explanation for the floating objects over Kansas City.

We've taken several calls in our newsroom about these two orbs spotted in the Kansas City sky tonight. This picture was taken near KCI Airport. @NWSKansasCity

6:02 PM - 20 Jun 2019






People shared images of the objects on social media and on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=20&v=ExfefIOyd2E


The most likely explanation was a balloon of some kind, although there were competing theories. KMBC speculated that the objects may have been from either Google or the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the latter of which launched three balloons in Maryland on Monday: 





But they're likely these balloons from Raven Aerostar, which makes the DARPA balloons and other high-altitude balloons (including Google's Loon balloons), picked up over Kansas at the time of the sightings:



The three #Thunderhead balloon system launched by @RavenAerostar on June 18th from Cumberland (MD) are over Kansas (2) and Colorado (1) .


Track them live on @flightradar24 at:https://www.flightradar24.com/multiview/20f4c321,20f991fb,20f993b0 ...

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11:43 PM - Jun 20, 2019



On Twitter, the balloons became the objects of speculation, wishful thinking and more than a few gags: see link

[The Seeker]

That's pretty bad when the NWS doesn't know that balloons are balloons...(cue the conspiracy clowns in 3,2,1,...)

 

[ArMaP]

That's pretty bad when the NWS doesn't know that balloons are balloons...

That's what I thought.