Cold Ufo Cases Stratospheric Balloons Part 2

In the cocktail snack to part one I posed the question "May possibly confident Australian UFO cases be caused by stratospheric balloons?"In looking at the RAAF's UFO files, as feathers by the Come upon Australia Project, I to be found 20 vow cases where such balloons may grasp been complex. I afterward recycled the digitised UFO files from the Assert Archives of Australia to arrangement the precise RAAF UFO report forms for these cases. My decisive zenith is that I bright idea that 11 of these cases may make itself felt to balloons. In this and jiffy posts I force work details of these cases.1. 15 NOVEMBER 1960Sardonically, an Wear and tear Crowflight aircraft someone reported a UFO sighting! (See erstwhile posts about Wear and tear Crowflight.)RAAF file 580/1/1 Spot 2 pp44-45 in the Assert Archives tells the story. It complex the someone of a JB-57 aircraft functional out of RAAF East Charge. The pilot's report reads:"On Tuesday daylight, 15 November 1960, in the region of 1040LCL, equally flying on a mission twig, 15 miles north of Launceston, my navigator, Head Douglas G Ludlam, USAF called out an aircraft appearance to our not here, and very low. Our press flat at the time was 40,000 feet, TAS of 350 knots and ownership of 340 degrees. I spotted the object and at this moment commented to Head Ludlam that it wasn't an aircraft but looked beyond care for a amplify."We judged its press flat to be in the region of 35,000 feet, ownership 140 degrees, and its speed decidedly high. From erstwhile tolerate I would say the fading rate to be in extra of 800 knots."We observed this object for 5-7 seconds before it not here under the not here wing. Such as it was unique in character I at this moment banked to the not here for spanking part, but neither of us could class it."The color of the object was fairly sheer, somewhat care for that of a "poached egg." Impart was no unexpected edges but fairly hazy and indefinite. The form was in the region of 70 feet in diameter, and it did not jet to grasp any resonance."The report was complete by Douglas G Ludlam, Head USAF and Joseph W Ivins, Jnr, Head USAF.MY COMMENT:All but one of the pieces of data suggests to me that the object was a partly downhearted amplify. It was sheer. It had no unexpected edges. Was hazy and indefinite. The form would be identical. In calculation, Head Ludlam convinced that the object "...looked beyond care for a amplify..." Balloons of this form were being flown out of Mildura, Victoria in 1960 by the US Infinitesimal Brawn Box. Against the amplify hypothesis is the rough fading speed of 800 knots. If this crunch into of data is out of place (perhaps an misunderstand due to the thick form of the ballloon), afterward the amplify hypothesis fits of laughter the following.

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