white object floating in sky deploys hoses which spray out clouds, they joins another cloud and flys away
I was in my bedroom talking to my girlfriend at 6:15 pm on a breezy, partly cloudy evening. Clouds were mostly Cumulus, with a few Stratus cruising across the sky West to East. The wind was Westerly at 12-15 mph (I am a windsurfer and constantly watch clouds and weather).
My girlfriend asked if I could see the odd "striated patterns in the sky that looked like clouds". I could not see them. Typically, she is very sensitive to everything, and sees and feels things I can't. I replied I can't see but noticed I have an odd pressure in my right ear. She said she had it too, only her whole head.
I spotted a white balloon above the palm tree next door to the North. It looked fairly far away and about 5-7mm across (in thumb and forefinger held up "pinching" it). It was lit brilliantly by the sun dropping on the horizon. It did not move in the wind. I thought maybe the wind was calm at that elevation. I asked if she saw it. She did. I pointed out that it wasn't moving with the wind.She agreed. I went and got my Brunton Binoculars, and her Sunset Binoculars.
With them I could easily see the "string" hanging from the white balloon. She could see it with her's too. How could the string be visible from this distance? It would have to be a thick rope which a balloon could never lift. Then we noticed the "string" looked kinked. It hung in a slight zig zag pattern under the balloon. It also hung a bit to the East, like it was being blown by the wind to the East.
We went outside to get a better look.
The clouds and balloon began to have a orange-reddish hue on their western edges due to the sun getting low on the western horizon. The balloon appeared to rotate 90 degrees showing a side-view which made it look like a piece of white rice. Now the string was not hanging but extending West-sideways-from the West end of the "rice" And then another kinked string extending East from the East end of the rice. The pressure in my ear had increased. The 2 strings became 6, 3 on each end originating from the 2 points where the 2 strings had come out of. All 6 were kinked just as the hanging string had originally appeared. Then tiny-at-first white spots appeared at the outboard ends of the kinky strings. As the 6 white spots grew they started to look like 6 little puffy Cumulus Clouds. Then they grew together into 2 bigger clouds, one on the East, one on the West.
My girlfriend and I were discussing this the whole time, she saw exactly what I saw.
As the 2 clouds grew they engulfed the rice (or "Tic Tac" as I've seen recent descriptions), hiding the rice completely. It was then I notice a cloud Northwest of the "rice cloud", which also wasn't moving with the wind. This cloud suddenly cruised Southeast to the rice cloud and engulfed it. The now-1-cloud rapidly flew away straight North and disappeared over the horizon within 5 or 10 seconds.
Summary: The original round appearance only let me see one of the hoses which had been deployed to squirt out the cloud-material. When it rotated sideways I could see there were hoses on each end which spread apart into 3 on each side. The kinked points were the hinges by which the hoses were folded inside the object. As the clouds were emitted the object appeared to deflate some looking less full...of cloud stuff. Why didn't it blow with the wind? Where did the other, much bigger cloud come from, and why didn't it blow with the wind? Once the rice was totally covered the bigger cloud went across the wind to meet up with it before exiting North. At night I see planes flying south. It takes 5 minutes for them to cover the distance the cloud did in seconds.
I went inside and immediately wrote this description down. At some point our ear and head pressures had gone away.
I was in my bedroom talking to my girlfriend at 6:15 pm on a breezy, partly cloudy evening. Clouds were mostly Cumulus, with a few Stratus cruising across the sky West to East. The wind was Westerly at 12-15 mph (I am a windsurfer and constantly watch clouds and weather).
My girlfriend asked if I could see the odd "striated patterns in the sky that looked like clouds". I could not see them. Typically, she is very sensitive to everything, and sees and feels things I can't. I replied I can't see but noticed I have an odd pressure in my right ear. She said she had it too, only her whole head.
I spotted a white balloon above the palm tree next door to the North. It looked fairly far away and about 5-7mm across (in thumb and forefinger held up "pinching" it). It was lit brilliantly by the sun dropping on the horizon. It did not move in the wind. I thought maybe the wind was calm at that elevation. I asked if she saw it. She did. I pointed out that it wasn't moving with the wind.She agreed. I went and got my Brunton Binoculars, and her Sunset Binoculars.
With them I could easily see the "string" hanging from the white balloon. She could see it with her's too. How could the string be visible from this distance? It would have to be a thick rope which a balloon could never lift. Then we noticed the "string" looked kinked. It hung in a slight zig zag pattern under the balloon. It also hung a bit to the East, like it was being blown by the wind to the East.
We went outside to get a better look.
The clouds and balloon began to have a orange-reddish hue on their western edges due to the sun getting low on the western horizon. The balloon appeared to rotate 90 degrees showing a side-view which made it look like a piece of white rice. Now the string was not hanging but extending West-sideways-from the West end of the "rice" And then another kinked string extending East from the East end of the rice. The pressure in my ear had increased. The 2 strings became 6, 3 on each end originating from the 2 points where the 2 strings had come out of. All 6 were kinked just as the hanging string had originally appeared. Then tiny-at-first white spots appeared at the outboard ends of the kinky strings. As the 6 white spots grew they started to look like 6 little puffy Cumulus Clouds. Then they grew together into 2 bigger clouds, one on the East, one on the West.
My girlfriend and I were discussing this the whole time, she saw exactly what I saw.
As the 2 clouds grew they engulfed the rice (or "Tic Tac" as I've seen recent descriptions), hiding the rice completely. It was then I notice a cloud Northwest of the "rice cloud", which also wasn't moving with the wind. This cloud suddenly cruised Southeast to the rice cloud and engulfed it. The now-1-cloud rapidly flew away straight North and disappeared over the horizon within 5 or 10 seconds.
Summary: The original round appearance only let me see one of the hoses which had been deployed to squirt out the cloud-material. When it rotated sideways I could see there were hoses on each end which spread apart into 3 on each side. The kinked points were the hinges by which the hoses were folded inside the object. As the clouds were emitted the object appeared to deflate some looking less full...of cloud stuff. Why didn't it blow with the wind? Where did the other, much bigger cloud come from, and why didn't it blow with the wind? Once the rice was totally covered the bigger cloud went across the wind to meet up with it before exiting North. At night I see planes flying south. It takes 5 minutes for them to cover the distance the cloud did in seconds.
I went inside and immediately wrote this description down. At some point our ear and head pressures had gone away.
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Phoenix
USA
25 minutes
25 minutes
33.50
-112.08
oval
AZ
Occurred : 8/27/2011 18:15 (Entered as : 8/27/11 18:15) Reported: 8/30/2020 2:16:18 PM 14:16 Posted: 9/4/2020 Location: Phoenix, AZ Shape: Oval Duration: 25 minutes Characteristics: The object emitted other objects
white object floating in sky deploys hoses which spray out clouds, they joins another cloud and flys away