UFO or Blimp?

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Down further in the twitter thread someone thinks it's a sensor platform.

What say you all?

A fish

a reply to: DaRAGE

Wonder Woman?

Doesn't the military have a small fleet of high-atmosphere surveillance and testing airships/mini blimps?

Here is a known model, imagine what is unknown or secret.

www.wired.com...

a reply to: DaRAGE


This is a very honest question.
Do you honestly believe that a high profile top secret airframe would be operating over civilian airspace?
I would go with no. So the possibility of the images captured are of known things....pretty likely
Just sayin

a reply to: DaRAGE


Cool pics though

originally posted by: putnam6
Doesn't the military have a small fleet of high-atmosphere surveillance and testing airships/mini blimps?

Here is a known model, imagine what is unknown or secret.

www.wired.com...

Yes they do mate.

That's obviously a Luminous Sky Whale.

Nice find, I've only ever heard about them.

A watcher looking north at China

My guess, but they usually have an instrument package underneath. probably a newer version.

originally posted by: GENERAL EYES
That's obviously a Luminous Sky Whale.

That's a good one! I was wondering if there were any swamps nearby....

originally posted by: EternalShadow
Wonder Woman?

Man, you beat me to it! That was my first thought as well.

A scene for an upcoming Sharknado movie ?

I saw a blimp flying over Dallas, TX in the 90's that utilized some kind of cloaking device that appeared to be similar to this:


The cloaking device didn't appear to be working properly though. I could see the blimp because the cloaked image was slightly different than the sky behind the blimp. The blimp also had a small cloud traveling with it underneath the blimp, in an otherwise cloudless sky. It was actually the cloud that attracted my attention. It was also at night time. The lights from the city may have illuminated the outline of the blimp more so than if it had been away from city lights.

I remember watching 60 Minutes and other programs where they discuss new technology being developed, like robot-assisted soldiers, gene splicing, cell phones, designer babies, cloaking devices, etc.
20-30 or more years go by with very little being said, and it passes away from public thought-then out of the clear blue they announce we have the fully developed technology.

If they're willing to tell us what they're working on, you can bet it's already been perfected and we're just being conditioned accept it as an integral part of 'progress'.

Remember Dolly, the sheep? She was a shock to most of the world, yet shouldn't have been. We were told decades before her creation that they were developing that technology.

You can use these little 'soft reveals' to 'predict' the future direction of society and the repercussions that accompany such 'advancements' in science.

Plot twist: "Aliens" fly around in blimps.
All this time they've been telling you that what you, the UFO witness, has seen was a balloon or a blimp, they've been secretly admitting the truth: they're here, and they're piloting your blimps.

Remember that next time Goodyear is hovering ominously above a sports stadium.

a reply to: DaRAGE

This looks like an aerostat, like they have in the Florida keys (for monitoring immigration)...its called "fat albert"

www.google.com...:1671466558512&source=lnms&tb m=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj1h-WTiob8AhVyl3IEHVZiBa4Q_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1920&bih=937&dpr=1

originally posted by: DaRAGE

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Down further in the twitter thread someone thinks it's a sensor platform.

What say you all?

I think it's actually a dirigible, not a blimp. A blimp is just a balloon that requires pressure inside to make it keep its shape. A dirigible has a lightweight skeleton structure inside (like the Hindenburg) to give it its shape. A dirigible gets its lift from low pressure gas bags inside filled with the lifting gas (Hydrogen or Helium). I think the upper surface of this dirigible is made of a clear plastic and that there are solar cell arrays inside to provide electrical power to operate the thing.

Yes, it's almost certainly a sensor platform. Probably radar along with electro-optical/IR. A radar antenna could be entirely inside the vehicle looking downward through the skin.

a reply to: 1947boomer

And airships do not need to have "solid" frames for internal structural support either.

There are ongoing developments which actually use inflated high pressure rigid "air beams" for support.


Also, since high pressure lighter than air vehicles can be designed to remain aloft for days, or even weeks, at a time, and can fly at altitudes that make them all but invulnerable to "most" anti-aircraft missiles (a remotely piloted prototype airship was successfully tested at 95k ft years ago), it is quite possible that an advanced ISR platform might, low-key, be deployed a continent away from its target theater for convenience (and security).

Just because we can see it doesn't mean they will be able to see (or track) it when it gets to where it's going. Even if they know what it is!

In response to the OP, I would say airship, surveillance platform, as other posters have described.

originally posted by: Allaroundyou
a reply to: DaRAGE


This is a very honest question.
Do you honestly believe that a high profile top secret airframe would be operating over civilian airspace?
I would go with no. So the possibility of the images captured are of known things....pretty likely
Just sayin

Incorrect. They are routinely flown over civilian airspace, as far as I can tell.

a reply to: DaRAGE

When I saw that pictures I remebered something I saw some years ago - so I went to search.

There is a company that I first don`t remembered that has announced something very similar.
If this pictures are real there is a high chance we look at a early version of StratoBus - it was annouced to fly before 2020 but didn`t arrive yet. The company is called Thales and they said this thing would be ready by now.

Here are some renders from the concept back then:




www.thalesgroup.com...