The fine citizens of Kansas City were freaking out on Thursday evening as a pair of strange orbs floating in the sky. Even the National Weather Service had no clue as to what the UFOs were. But before Bill Pullman scrambles the Air Force and jumps into an F-18 Hornet, there might be a non-alien explanation for the lights in the sky.
There were two strange lights over Missouri that were witnessed by thousands of locals on Thursday night.
❓ We've taken several calls in our newsroom about these two orbs spotted in the Kansas City sky tonight. This picture was taken near KCI Airport. @NWSKansasCity pic.twitter.com/fz4kGTIk1h
— KMBC (@kmbc) June 21, 2019
Video of the ominous orbs was shared online showed the UFOs flying higher than commercial airplanes. One person in the video yells: “Aliens out here! Aliens!”
“We honestly have no explanation for the floating objects over Kansas City,” the National Weather Service wrote on their official Twitter account on Thursday.
Re: Floating objects (two small white spheres above the anvil shield). Others farther north may have a better view. pic.twitter.com/fFTYi59vGM
— NWS Kansas City (@NWSKansasCity) June 21, 2019
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The white orbs fueled some astute hypotheses as to what the lights were.
As a guy who grew up in Kansas City in the 1980s, my best guess is that these are a couple of Bo Jackson home run balls finally coming back to earth. https://t.co/qNfcVSudu7
— Andrew Wehrman (@ProfWehrman) June 21, 2019
Stranger Things Night is going exactly as planned. 😏 https://t.co/OKN4b9DSKY
— Kansas City Royals (@Royals) June 21, 2019
Some people were ready to welcome our new alien overlords.
Please be the Mothership
Please be the Mothership
Please be the Mothership
Please be the Mothership
Please be the Mothership
Please be the Mothership https://t.co/ola6YalNAz— Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie) June 21, 2019
https://twitter.com/jbillinson/status/1141876157492731905
However, there could be an intriguing answer for what the unidentified flying objects were. Instead of out-of-this-world visitors, these aircraft may have just been out-of-state visitors.
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), an agency of the United States Department of Defense that creates state-of-the-art military tech, launched a new kind of balloon.
“Last night, DARPA launched 3 balloons from Cumberland, Maryland, in a flight test for the Adaptable Lighter Than Air prgm,” the official DARPA Twitter account posted earlier this week. “Over next few days, ALTA will demonstrate capability for wind-borne navigation of a lighter-than-air vehicle over extended ranges.”
Last night, DARPA launched 3 balloons from Cumberland, Maryland, in a flight test for the Adaptable Lighter Than Air prgm. Over next few days, ALTA will demonstrate capability for wind-borne navigation of a lighter-than-air vehicle over extended ranges. https://t.co/Og8dWCvszc pic.twitter.com/NjUB6Got94
— DARPA (@DARPA) June 18, 2019
The three #Thunderhead balloon system launched by @RavenAerostar on June 18th from Cumberland (MD) are over Kansas (2) and Colorado (1) .
Track them live on @flightradar24 at:https://t.co/BxyPBilXyt pic.twitter.com/9qDuq2Mtja
— StratoCat (@stratoballoon) June 21, 2019
There were also reports that the objects could have been high-altitude balloons from Google. One of Alphabet Inc.’s subsidiaries is Loon, which uses balloons to bring internet access to rural and remote areas.
Flight data found that the two balloons were in the Kansas City area and were as high as 79,000 feet (15 miles) in the air, putting them in the stratosphere.
https://twitter.com/ai6yrham/status/1141876557935304704
But then again, without confirmation that they are balloons, aliens are definitely still a very viable possibility.
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[KMBC]