Earlier today we told you about the UFO that caused quite a stir amongst New Yorkers after being spotted floating above the Chelsea neighborhood yesterday afternoon. My favorite quote from the whole thing was from a witness who goes by the name Rico, “t’s a little crazy. I guess that’s why they call it an unidentified flying object because they don’t know what it is.”
Turns out we do know what it is, however. The silvery object (or object was) was, as we suspected, just a bunch of balloons. Now someone has taken responsibility for the origin of the UFO.
A parent was bringing a bunch of 40 iridescent pearl balloons up to Westchester County to celebrate a teacher’s engagement party. It got windy and a few of the balloons go away–the next thing they knew, the balloons were all over YouTube.
“UFO? They’re crazy – those are our balloons!” Angela Freeman, the head of the school told The Daily News. “To me it was the most automatic thing. But it’s all over YouTube.”
A combination of high wind, a clear sky, and a change in the balloons’ shape due to the high altitude are being blamed for the mistaken identity.
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