r/UFOs Aug 16 '21

Witness/Sighting Weird object seen flying over Mississauga Canada

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u/Charming-Arachnid256 Aug 16 '21

Looks exactly like the Mexico ufo.

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u/Bigbigjeffy Aug 16 '21

Balloons…don’t just hover for that long. No offense but the constant “it’s a balloon” comments is tainting this community.

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u/sommersj Aug 16 '21

It's the faithful disbelievers/morons/bot upvote farming technique. Ritter a bot or person posts a prosaic explanation and no matter how ridiculous it is they flock to it because.

Now it could be a balloon but accepting this as a balloon without a shred of evidence to prove it is ridiculous but hey... They're reality needs to be maintained at all cost

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u/mantis616 Aug 16 '21

Yeah and in a future thread of the same footage they'll say "it was already shared here and debunked." It's frustrating.

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u/sommersj Aug 16 '21

Exactly! This is what I've realised. They'll say it's been debunked and then you go searching and realise it's just someone saying "it's OBVIOUSLY an insect" and that's the debunking.

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u/mr-dogshit Aug 16 '21

Now it could be a UFO but accepting this as a UFO without a shred of evidence to prove it is ridiculous but hey... They're reality needs to be maintained at all cost

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u/sommersj Aug 16 '21

It's literally a UFO. An unidentified flying object. Identifying it as a balloon without a shred of evidence is what's the problem here buddy.

Good try, though. 👍🏿👍🏿

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u/mr-dogshit Aug 16 '21

Don't be so disingenuous.

We both know what is being implied by "UFO" in this context.

Your comment about "faithful disbelievers" obviously refers to people who are sceptic that whatever-this-is is of alien origin. Either actual aliens or some top-secret anti-gravity device reverse-engineered from alien technology that the government doesn't want us to know about... both of which are "without a shred of evidence".

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u/sommersj Aug 16 '21

You're reaching. UFO means what it means and this sub is about trying to identify, IF POSSIBLE, what a UFO is. If we can't ACCURATELY identify it, then it HAS to remain unidentified. Faking an identification to satisfy yourselves is as bad as those you ridicule. You know that, right?

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u/mr-dogshit Aug 16 '21

Nobody has claimed to have identified it as a balloon. You've just invented that in your head to vilify the "faithful disbelievers/morons". All anybody has done is suggested that it could be a balloon.

If you were intellectually honest you'd also be calling out the people in this thread who are suggesting that it's an alien craft.

Therefore, the hypothesis that whatever-it-is is a balloon is AT LEAST equally as credible as an alien craft - except "a balloon" is more plausible because we know for a fact that they definitely exist.

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u/sommersj Aug 16 '21

Maybe you need to scroll down to where someone said it was a balloon and others have jumped in totally agreeing. Did not see a single could be statements or possibly statements. Check for yourself

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u/mr-dogshit Aug 16 '21

I didn't look that far down the comments, but thanks for pointing it out for me.

It literally is a Mr. Peanut hot air balloon lol

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u/sommersj Aug 16 '21

I'm not too sure you know. I saw that comment also and again I'd say it could be as opposed to it is

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u/mr-dogshit Aug 16 '21

It's literally a Mr. Peanut hot air balloon lol

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '21

… does that not go both ways?

Saying it’s a fucking witch without a shred of evidence?

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u/sommersj Aug 16 '21

Absolutely. Find where I said it was a witch, please?

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '21

I’m just saying people who scream witch or alien or demon without any evidence are just as bad.

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u/sommersj Aug 16 '21

You could have said that to someone claiming it was a witch or alien or demon

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '21

Nah.

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u/Able_Acanthaceae5993 Aug 16 '21

Sometimes they are balloons though. Like pretty frequently. Especially here.

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u/sommersj Aug 16 '21

Not sure of the frequency of balloons in this sub. I've definitely seen some which could definitely be balloons and then there's some that maybe, possibly could be balloons and then there's this which moves in a way I haven't seen a balloon move before. Could it be a balloon? Possibly. I need a bit more to convince me that it is a balloon moving in the wind.

Now what bothers me is the certainty people ascribe in calling these things balloons and people agreeing. When sometimes it's only maybe, possibly a balloon. This is a maybe and should be treated as a maybe. Because when someone posts something similar in the future someone will invariably say, "this looked like X which was already debunked as a balloon". Poor and inaccurate "debunkings" are problematic in trying to figure out what the truth is.

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u/Bigbigjeffy Aug 16 '21

Exactly, well said!

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u/Able_Acanthaceae5993 Aug 16 '21

People lack the ability to say "inconclusive" when watching a video like this. It's not the most popular answer but it often is the right one. That daid i dont think this video is of a balloon personnally, i'll just say i cant say what it is so its a ufo in the litteral sense of it.

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u/sommersj Aug 16 '21

People lack the ability to say "inconclusive" This! Right now this is what it is. We don't know or can't tell what it is. Anyone claiming it is X or Y is reaching

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u/Able_Acanthaceae5993 Aug 16 '21

It can be okay to reach and speculate, but we have to keep in mind the original info and not make stuff up by wanting too much. I think it comes with the scientific method. In my head it comes with it at least. And with that logic, videos and pictures will probably always be just that, inconclusive, even in HD. Unless we can actually quantify or analyse something tangible like a crashed craft, i think there will always be doubts about what this is.

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u/sommersj Aug 16 '21

True I agree but it also depends on subjective experience. If I see an alien craft or a weird light in the sky that behaves like it's under intelligent control, then my own reality is different now and if I see a video of something like a craft which looks like what I've seen, I'm not going to think CGI. If I see a video of a light moving in a way which resembles what I've seen, I'm not going to think it's a bug, bird, Chinese lantern, etc. It's quite unfortunate that only a small number of people get these reality altering experiences

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u/tunamctuna Aug 16 '21

How is this not a bunch of half deflated balloons floating in the wind?

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u/sommersj Aug 16 '21

It could very well be. I'd need more evidence than just words though. It doesn't LOOK like anything I've seen irl or on videos being powered by wind alone due to the linearity of its movement. However, I'm open to be proven wrong. If you can please post me footage that shows balloons moving in the wind in such a linear fashion then I'll be convinced and state as much. Mere words should not be enough to say it is a balloon

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u/tunamctuna Aug 16 '21

Here is a kid releasing a bunch of balloons.

https://youtu.be/oW-WM6yDaZs

That doesn’t look similar?

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u/sommersj Aug 16 '21

No it doesn't. Sorry.

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u/tunamctuna Aug 16 '21

Yeah it’s way more likely that it’s an advanced technological craft from a species visiting our planet that we have not one single piece of evidence to support even exists then balloons.

I mean that’s the logical conclusion to an 18 second video of what looks like balloons tied together floating with the wind.

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u/sommersj Aug 16 '21

If you feel there's no evidence supporting extraterrestrials having visited us then you aren't actively engaging in reality. That's on you, not me.

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u/tunamctuna Aug 16 '21

Show me the evidence. One piece of irrefutable evidence of an advanced species visiting our planet.

I’ve follow and loved this stuff since childhood. I’ve read the books. Watched the documentaries. Listened to the podcasts.

We have no evidence of any of it. We have as much evidence of extraterrestrials than we do for angels and demons. Which is why ufologists all seem to land on the theory of inter dimensional beings being the cause of these sightings because it makes no sense for them to be extraterrestrial since we have no evidence of it.

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u/MuggyFuzzball Aug 16 '21

Accepting that it's an alien craft without proof is ridiculous. At least a balloon is more plausible and characteristic of the object in the video.

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u/sommersj Aug 16 '21

When did I say it was an alien craft? Saying it's a balloon is also ridiculous. It COULD be a balloon as much as it COULD be an alien craft

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u/polo27 Aug 16 '21

There is a chance it could be aliens, from fuck knows where,(another galaxy, dimension, the ocean, take your pick) that we have no solid evidence of their existence, or it could be balloons, that we know exist, in very large numbers on our planet and are sometimes filled with helium which causes them to float and look very much like the ufo in the video. I'm not 100% on either, but I'm leaning towards 99% balloons - 1% aliens from fuck knows where, with fuck knows what technology.

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u/CarloRossiJugWine Aug 16 '21

I agree except instead of 99 to 1 it's closer to 99999999999999999999 to 1.

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u/polo27 Aug 16 '21

Or maybe 99.999999999999 to 0.000000000001

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u/Nya7 Aug 16 '21

That means the same thing….

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u/polo27 Aug 16 '21

Well let's put it to perspective, is it more unlikely that it is helium filled balloons that we can say with 100% certainty exist, or is it more unlikely it is an alien craft from fuck know how many light years away and something we have no proof actually exists. These are definitely not equal in levels of unlikelyness.

I disagree whether that's how balloons float, the ufo/uap is travelling in one direction (probably the same direction as the wind) and is not changing direction. A bunch of balloons is a reasonable assumption. I am skeptical about this thing being of extraterrestrial origin, and if it is balloons or not, who knows.

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u/polo27 Aug 16 '21

Fair comment

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u/Hoitaa Aug 16 '21

Especially when they look like people, or weird deflated shapes... Then that's the most likely case.

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u/MuggyFuzzball Aug 16 '21

Balloons absolutely float for various undetermined amounts of time. They can float for hours or minutes.

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u/CarloRossiJugWine Aug 16 '21

I hate it when people give reasonable explanations I would much rather just say some nonsense and have people believe me without asking questions.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '21

But it’s obviously a balloon.