Bruno and I saw an amazing balloon this spring in Rexburg. We had set up for a Sun-Party at a middle school. We watched it for hours. It was virtually stationary for long periods. We looked at it with the 160 at up to 128x and couldn't be sure of it exact shape. Depth is difficult to determine. It was round in shape in the horizontal plane but didn't look as thick as it was round, i.e., it looked saucer shaped. It was difficult to see if the bottom surface was concave or convex although it would have had to have been convex to give it volume. There was something visible in the middle, some sort of instruments I presume. The balloon covered almost no distance during that time. Almost as though it was ground controlled. On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 7:53 AM, Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> wrote:
That's what I'm leaning towards, though it appeared to be moving west. And it sure was huge for a weather balloon. How large do they typically get before bursting?
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 7:40 AM, Wiggins Patrick <paw@getbeehive.net> wrote:
Regarding your object, the first thing that came to mind was weather balloon. Can you rule that out?
CalSky indicates a weather balloon being visible this morning during the 6:00 hour. They have it initially moving east and then south with the balloon bursting at just over 31 km altitude.
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