I believe that even very experienced professionals get things wrong. 
Not sure what jamming weapon systems has to do with anything, unless you’re implying it was aliens, which…nope.
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Well these are (broadly) the same people who think a guy in a jetpack is hanging out in the approach trajectory for LAX.
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`https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_balloon
Or constantly confuse plastic bags and balloons for drones.
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Or a bin liner.
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First, for all the people who think that we could have an HD photo of this object: This thing is small, the fighter plane is moving at hundreds of knots, and the photo shows more than ten pixels of the object. That’s pretty darn good resolution. I can’t take a much better picture of the license plate of the car in front of me with my phone.
Second, for those who say it’s a weather balloon: Weather balloons are spherical at high altitude, and teardrop shaped at lower altitudes. And they have gondolas. They don’t look anything like this.
Third, that Batman balloon is uncannily similar in shape to the photographed object.
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I can still hear that voice…
Man, Sinistar was awesome.
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Since this object is obviously and PRECISELY the balloon that Mister44 posted, I dunno what to tell you.
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Not all of us. That is a Renoir.
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So a balloon was seen? Groovy. I fear the mylar balloons that USAF pilots DON’T see. Just one, loaded with 30g / 1 oz of plutonium powder, carefully helium-inflated and set loose from Santa Monica with an onshore wind lofting it over the Los Angeles basin, could kill millions. Hardly noticeable. Don’t inhale, kids.
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It’s that, or a haunter.
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Happy Birthday from Batman!
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It looks like Steve Austin’s plane from “The Six-Million Dollar Man”.
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You might be on to something…
Which prompts me to ask: why haven’t we had a remake of this classic show? It would have to be updated to account for inflation. I watched the shit out of that show back in the day. I mean, they’ve remade “Charlies Angles”, “Dukes of Hazard”, and “The A Team”.
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Because Mark Wahlberg has had trouble getting it made. He’s trying very hard though, which…well. I’m sure it’ll be loud. And “patriotic.” There will probably be a Sasquatch worked in in some fashion.
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