UFOlloon Story Not Going Away Yet

The Drudge Report has kept this story alive because there has yet to be a definitive explanation for the series of dots that spread across the Chelsea, NY sky on October 13.  The NY Daily News is still the only major news org in NY to give this story legs.  Speaking of, missing from this story is the presence of another local rag, The New York Times.  Seems they'd rather marquee a story about old people and Completely ignoring this story all-together.  They must have reporters on the beat, so why haven't any of the stories been allowed to run?  Could the editor in chief be suppressing this story for some reason?  During struggling days for newspapers, you'd think they'd even throw together an article that bashes all the fools on the street claiming that even UFOlloons don't hang in the air, stationary, for four hours.   Of course there is the woman who got some bling and a wedding ring.  She teaches a class and her kids say they let go of some UFOlloons.

So FMPU salutes the New York Daily News for their fearless coverage - hoax or otherwise - and letting their valued readers decide.  Good stuff indeed,  but there have been some changes to the story.  Of particular interest is that there are no known radar sightings by the FAA, yet, and they changed the picture of what seemed to be a closer view of the structure, in favor of the dots they are currently running.  Anyway, here are more choice comments that take on both sides and the absurd:

Gelissalol

12:25:03 PM
Oct 14, 2010

If we have learned ANYTHING from the "Balloon Boy" hoax, it's that civilians have the resources to put whatever they want into the sky. Maybe not legally, but they do it. These look like balloons to me. I never understand why people are so quick to believe that aliens would fly trillions of miles to our planet just to pop in for a few seconds, then leave.

jbb

2:06:50 PM
Oct 14, 2010

An interesting question for the editors: I was on this story when it first broke and saw the initial photo you displayed of a semi-structured, vertically symmetric object or objects clustered within a circular perimeter. A small outlier could be seen directly to the objects lower left. So ... why was this initial picture pulled from your web site? The curious want to know ... jbb

paktype

5:41 AM
Oct 14, 2010

My question is, why do we still think that alien vessels still look like blobs or flying saucers? This isn't the '40s, folks. Enough with the cheesy sci-fi. Lets have some imagination here. Why can't alien ships look cool and sleek? Why aren't we "seeing" real ships like the Millenium Falcon or some of those ships from Babylon 5 or even our own USS Enterprise (Constitution class, of course, still the coolest of them all.)

RooseveltRoughrider

11:05 AM
Oct 14, 2010

What difference does it make if it's captured on radar at this point? Don't we have radar defying technology ourselves? Can't they just say, hey, it wasn't a helicopter or plane so depending on it's mode of flight, speed and shape, it could anything. Nothing can be ruled out except for puff the magic dragon. [Nice call.  editor]

WonkaVision

12:47 PM
Oct 14, 2010

NO, NO… It’s Kim Kardashian’s old & worn-out diaphragms’ for national Planned Parenthood day.

DramaBB82

4:32 PM
Oct 14, 2010

This is soooooooooo stupid. PEOPLE, there was a show in Time Square advertising "Swan Lake" that is coming to Manhattan and they used giant bunches of YELLOW BALLOONS. End of story.

DramaBB82

4:40 PM
Oct 14, 2010

And, um, daisyomalley: Balloons can only float so high into the atmosphere and then they either stop rising or pop. And if the wind is still or blowing in a certain pattern, they won't move. THIS IS SIMPLE SCIENCE.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=112266&start=80&tstart=0#ixzz12MvIH2r1

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