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Caught On Tape: Balloon or UFO?[Louisiana]
KSLA ^ | 27 Oct 2008 | Jeff Ferrell

Posted on 10/29/2008 7:08:39 AM PDT by BGHater

Caught on tape: A mysterious object recently filmed above Shreveport's Downtown Airport. But, there's debate tonight whether it's a UFO or just a big balloon.

The video of the mysterious object came to us from local flight instructor Kevin Morris. He told us a fellow pilot, Charles Corder, captured the images back on Thursday, October 9th at 10:30 in morning, while using his home video camera. We slowed down the video to get a better view and remove much of the shaking.

Morris said he's been told it hovered about 10-thousand feet in the air and appeared about 80-feet long. The best view on the 4-minute-long recording comes when the object turns sidewides, revealing a dozen or so round structures running the length of the object. After about 5-minutes, it reportedly flew away towards the Shreveport Regional Airport.

But after the broadcast of KSLA News 12 Sunday at 5:30 p.m. (10/26), an amateur photographer sent us a picture that he took, of what appears to be the same object. But, Paul Pickett came to an entirely different conclusion.

Pickett said, to him, the object appeared no higher than 2-thousand feet in the skies above downtown Shreveport. He also estimated its size as just 20-feet long and looked like shiny rubber, possibly a balloon floating with the wind.

Those who saw the object at the downtown airport called Radar Approach Control, better known as RAPCON, a civilian facility at Barksdale Air Force Base. But, they did not report seeing anything on their radar. And, we're told that radar is sensitive enough to pick-up a flock of birds. Perhaps another viewer, like Pickett, will give us even more information to help solve this mystery.



TOPICS: Conspiracy; UFO's
KEYWORDS: aviation; balloon; louisiana; tinfoil; ufo
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To: BGHater

The guy on the video looks like Bill Ayers.


21 posted on 10/29/2008 7:24:56 AM PDT by i_dont_chat (The elephant is dancing for the lady from Alaska)
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To: martin_fierro

I was thinking same this same thing: “It is ball-oon!”


22 posted on 10/29/2008 7:25:18 AM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspell)
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To: DBrow

The whispers on the grapvine say that Laz had a UFOectomy and since there is no Bris well.... ouch!


23 posted on 10/29/2008 7:32:26 AM PDT by Young Werther (Julius Caesar (Quae Cum Ita Sunt. Since these things are so.))
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To: Artemis Webb
You’re a sick sick person.

I know.

HEEEELPPP MEEEEEeeee

24 posted on 10/29/2008 7:36:56 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Secondhand Aztlan Smoke causes drug addiction obesity in global warming cancer immigrant terrorists.)
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To: theDentist
I was thinking same this same thing

Seek help. 

25 posted on 10/29/2008 8:32:42 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: martin_fierro
Have contacted a linguist, who suggested I now state "I was thinking the same thought you'd already expressed."

Seems like too much typing.

26 posted on 10/29/2008 9:36:08 AM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspell)
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To: martin_fierro

Where the heck are we?


27 posted on 10/29/2008 10:00:11 AM PDT by Defiant (NY Times carried the world's commies on its back but then...... Ad-Less Shrugged)
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To: BGHater

Somewhere a child is crying.


28 posted on 10/29/2008 10:03:57 AM PDT by MaxMax (I'll welcome death when God calls me. Until then, the fight is on)
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To: BGHater; Quix
When enlarged, it appears to be a photoshopped image. (Or balloon..)........

%^)

29 posted on 10/29/2008 3:25:03 PM PDT by Las Vegas Dave ("McCain-Palin 2008"- Because the other option would be unthinkable.)
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To: BGHater; Quix

Actually, the video is much better than the photo...


30 posted on 10/29/2008 3:28:40 PM PDT by Las Vegas Dave ("McCain-Palin 2008"- Because the other option would be unthinkable.)
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To: Las Vegas Dave

Didn’t seem like anything to get too excited about.


31 posted on 10/29/2008 4:34:19 PM PDT by Quix (GLOBALIST PLANS FM 1900 ON #76 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2031425/posts?page=77#77)
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To: mnehrling

Ditto.

We must be neighbors.


32 posted on 10/29/2008 4:40:05 PM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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