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Some pretty amazing clips here. Analyst does a good job at ruling out mundane explanations.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/27920019511015884

1. Obvious Mylar balloon.
2. Out of focus light with no context. Could be any light... even a highway light in fog.
3. Plenty of pictures out there of only a single small cloud in the sky. This one lit from one side by the sunset.
4. No context... is it even in the sky? Looks like a bonfire seen through trees. He even says "smoke effect."
5. Looks like a lens reflection, but could be Fata Morgana... very common over the ocean, especially without any other context/wide-view.

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Balloon...No context..what is it?...fata Morgana..typical made-up bullshit.

(Aug 5, 2026 11:41 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: [ -> ]Balloon...No context..what is it?...fata Morgana..typical made-up bullshit.

No, I can assure you, those are all real things.

(Aug 6, 2026 12:02 AM)Syne Wrote: [ -> ]

(Aug 5, 2026 11:41 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: [ -> ]Balloon...No context..what is it?...fata Morgana..typical made-up bullshit.

No, I can assure you, those are all real things.

Nope...you made them all up. Disc-shaped balloon, fata morgana at night, glowing cloud at night..all made up shit.

Mylar balloon shaped balloon, cloud at sunset, and:

A Fata Morgana is a rare, complex optical mirage caused by a thermal inversion where layers of warm and cold air bend light rays. While typically seen in morning or daytime over water or ice, nighttime or twilight variations can distort distant lights, ships, or horizons into glowing, shifting, or looming phantom structures.
- gemini

You posted a nighttime Fata Morgana before... that was the image of a construction site.

One of those many metallic spheres the Pentagon reports seeing speeding around in the skies all over the world.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1372429791019618

Meh. Jet flying past a relatively stationary Mylar balloon. 9_9

Nope..no mylar party balloons zipping around at 20,000 ft in Navy jet training zones..

A typical helium-filled Mylar party balloon can ascend anywhere from a few thousand feet up to 30,000 feet (about 9 kilometers) depending on its size, how full it is, and weather conditions.

Wind can easily carry a balloon over military airspace in the 20-55 minutes it would take to reach a 20,000 ft altitude.
And I see you still don't understand the concept of relative motion. 9_9