Today ’s atmospheric condition : cloudy with a chance of … flying saucer ?
KMBC 9 Newsreported two unidentified spheres spotted hovering over Kansas City , Missouri on the evening of June 20 . Located close toKansas City International Airport , the mysterious rotund form perplexed topical anesthetic in the area , let in the regional National Weather Service office .
That did n’t stop others from take out their own conclusion ; the internet erupted in a meme - torm welcome our potential exotic overlords . Sports fanseven conducteda public opinion poll to see who would be more interesting to our extraterrestrial voyeurs : Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes , or the local barbecue . ( The consensus ? Mahomes . )
But some did n’t believe the encounter was anything out of this world . local speculated that the orbs were nothing more than weather condition balloon taking barometric measure ; others suggest they wereGoogle Loonballoons — stratospheric technology that provides internet service to rural and remote area . Still others claimed they might be part of a test flight launch by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) , the U.S. armed services ’s research sphere .
The latter suspicion was boosted by KMBC - TV reporter William Joy , who tweetedthe objects were most probable DARPA balloons hail from Maryland . harmonize toMIT Technology Review , the office is testing high - EL satellite exchangeable to the Google Loons , which would allow for unhampered communication in removed or disaster - strike area .
Unlike Google Loons and other stratospheric orbs before it , DARPA ’s model use sensors that read wind speed and focus at dandy distance . These detector reserve for the balloons to adapt their position to remain in one berth , explicate why the Kansas City orbs were steady hang in space as opposed to bobbing around like apples in a tub .
UFO believers might be disappointed , but there are pot of otherX - Files - suitable stories still to be work out .
[ htKMBC 9 News ]
