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Originally posted by smarterthanyou
reply to post by Human_Alien
No. Sorry. They attempted to duplicate this on UFO Hunters with a physicist and determined the objects holding them together would have to be solid, not a string, and it would have to be quite large, and lanterns would not be able to hold up that weight. Perhaps a glow in the dark weather balloon could, but have you seen any of those? I haven't. And even then it is iffy, they used weather balloons in their test and hung lanterns underneath them, and the effect was not able to be replicated to perfection like seen in this video and other triangle videos. Try again though.
edit: The 3 weather balloons were not able to support the weight of the lanterns beneath them connected by a solid triangular thing they made out of pvc pipe. So they had to use a string, and it didn't hold the perfect triangular shape when it went into the air.edit on 10/5/2011 by smarterthanyou because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by smarterthanyou
reply to post by chrissiel123
Maussan actually went and got the biggest balloon salesmen in Mexico and he verified that what people are seeing and recording are NOT balloons.
Originally posted by Signals
How come we don't just go ahead and call triangle UFO's Pyramid UFO's?
Originally posted by Theprimevoyager
It is obviously not just a triangle craft. Its three separate craft in formation. As for jets, even military would have their lights on(Blinking/strobe) at dusk. Lanterns? Please.... I think not.
Originally posted by StrangerThanFiction39
reply to post by hotrice
They look exactly like chinese lanterns. People love to hoax things, I would not put it past someone to secure three lanterns to maintain an exact triangle shape. Unless you suggest someone has some wicked awesome cloaking technology, but somehow forgot they have lights (oops). This does not appear to be anything unworldly, nor any kind of secret human aircraft, looks like lanterns. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck .. well you get the picture.
Originally posted by Theprimevoyager
It is obviously not just a triangle craft. Its three separate craft in formation. As for jets, even military would have their lights on(Blinking/strobe) at dusk. Lanterns? Please.... I think not.
Originally posted by smarterthanyou
lol, this made me laugh. Some people are just impossible.
Explain this one. Watch the entire thing. I'm sure balloons have the ability to move like this... right? lol
Originally posted by waynos
The idea you would need rigid poles is nonsense. It is why 18th century illustrations of man carrying balloons fitted with sails and rudders are amusing to look at today and modern balloons carry no such encumberances, its all in the same air current.
Originally posted by mbkennel
Uh, modern blimps and dirigibles have rudders. They don't have sails for the same reason that most boats today don't have sails, internal combustion engines.
The sail wouldn't work though---a sailboat makes use of the keel and the resistance from the much higher density water to turn the suction from the sail into forward motion for all angles except straight downwind.
edit on 21-10-2011 by mbkennel because: (no reason given)