All those theories about Wednesday´s mystery UFO sightings over Manhatten are about to go ´pop´ - NYC kids say no, mysterious floating orbs were escaped balloons...

Gestern berichteten wir noch ausführlich Vormittags in einer Breaking-News-Geschichte und dann in unserem Tagesbericht von dern Quasi-ID4-UFOs in der realen Welt aus Amerika und seiner ´Welthauptstadt´, der Mega-Metropole am Hudson, wo ja auch ´Jack Bauer´ derzeiten noch Dienst schiebt.

+ Die ´New York Daily News´ ( http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local... ) berichtete soeben unter der Headline "UFO? NYC kids say no, mysterious floating orbs were escaped balloons from teacher´s engagement party" interessante Neuigkeiten, die Sie jucken werden:

>All those theories about Wednesday´s mystery UFO sightings over Manhatten are about to go "pop."

A Westchester elementary school believes the puzzling orbs floating over Chelsea were likely a bundle of balloons that escaped from an engagement party they held for a teacher. "UFO? They´re crazy - those are our balloons!" said Angela Freeman, head of the Milestone School in Mount Vernon. "To me it was the most automatic thing. But it´s all over YouTube."

A parent was bringing about 40 iridescent pearl balloons to the school for language arts teacher Andrea Craparo when the wind spent a bunch away around 1 p.m. "They looked big and they were all together, so it looked like one UFO," said fourth-grader Nia Foster, 9.

Awestruck gawkers began calling the NYPD and the FAA starting about an hour later when mysterious flying objects appeared over Manhattan. Meteorologists with the National Weatherservice said the wind was blowing south at 5 to 10 m.p.h. at the time which would make the engagement balloon theory possible. Police have said they believe the puzzling objects were likely balloons. The sky was very clear at the time, making high-flying objects extremely visible from the ground. Also, helium-filled balloons tend to change shape at high altitudes as the gas expands - making them look abnormal from below, experts say.

As with anything related to the paranormal, other possibilities abound. Following with the balloon theory, some suspected an event in Times Squares where a number of yellow balloons were released to celebrate a joint-tourism agreement between New York and Madrid.

Then there is author Stanley Pulham, a retired NORAD officer who recently published a book predicting the world´s major cities would be visited by UFOs on Oct. 13. He did not return calls - and there was no word on his whereabouts.<

Ein Leserkommentar sagt alles aus: "HAHA - he did not return phone calls. Of course he wouldn´t. I guess these UFO predictions were nothing but hot air."

+ "UFO over Chelsea? Experts say its probably not"

...ist die Headline der ´New York Post´ ( http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/... ):

>So much for aliens landing in Chelsea. That unexplained object that hovered mysteriously over the neighborhood Wednesday may be nothing more than errant party balloons, experts said today. One theory being floated is that the UFO was actually balloons that escaped from an engagement party they held for a Westchester County teacher.

"It was just a freak thing. Frankly I´m shocked by it," Angela Freeman, head of the Milestone School in Mount Vernon, who says her school inadvertently sent a cluster of balloons aloft. "We didn´t send them up. The kids had an engagement part for a teacher and a mother brought four dozen balloons and she´s coming through the door, it is very windy in Mount Vernon, suddenly 12 of the balloons let loose."

In January 2009, a science teacher and his friend in Morristown, N.J. used fishing line, flares, and three-foot helium balloons to fool people into thinking they witnessed a UFO. "It had the flavor of a cluster of balloons, in my opinion," said Peter Davenport, director of the National UFO Reporting Center, a private research group based in Washington. But, he stressed the footage was too funny to make a definitive opinion. Another theory raging online was the objects were balloons released Wednesday in Times Square for the 100th Anniversary of Madrid´s Gran Via, known at the "Spanish Broadway of Europe."

The National Weather Service said the objects whose appearance brought parts of western Manhattan to a standstill were definitely not weather balloons. "Our weather balloons are launched at 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.," said Brian Ciemnecki, a NWS staff meteorologist. "Sometimes weather balloons are mistaken for UFO, but this was not a weather balloon."<

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