"UFOs" or the Attack of the Weather Balloons

[thunderchildobs]

I saw this impressive daytime "UFO" display this afternoon. The two bright spots in the sky were quite noticable.

I was doing some astrofest equipment tests so I had a camera and a scope with me. Through the 8x50 finder, I see I could see that a "UFO" had a tail trailing below it.

If anyone has lost there weather balloons, they were heading south over Ipswich at 3:30pm

Would not be suprised to see some real ufo reports tommorrow.

The image was taken with a canon 550D at 55mm and manually focused.
The image was resize to 800 x 533. Below the marks is the full resolution showing the dots.

Brendan

[Astroman]

yep definitely UFO's everyone knows weather balloons aren't real.

[bigjoe]

Yeah!I have my doubts as to whether, weather balloons exist at all.Look at the tail it can't possibly be real.No wonder the weather reports are soo inaccurate.;)

[jjjnettie]

:) Well spotted and nabbed Brendan.

Looking forward to our annual catch up in 10 days. :D

[multiweb]

Got one of those UFOs in a startrail (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showpost.php?p=811071&postcount=1) a while ago. I'm pretty sure it was a weather balloon as well.

[leon]

Yea mate weather balloons, UFO are fantasy.

Leon

[goober]

Wind finding radar, probably from Brisbane Airport, or possibly Marburg(?), at 3pm. They fly balloons 2-4 times per day.

Funny, we receive emails about UFO's when radars go into test mode, and generate "bulls-eye" images. Sigh.