Have you ever seen a weather balloon & knew for sure that's what it was?

Question

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_balloon

Answer 1

nooooooooooooooo!!!!

Answer 2

Haha oh, I guess thats what I seen in the sky. I just saw A LOT of those white balls in the air and I had no clue what it was. I knew it wasnt the balloons people get for parties and stuff because it was too far in the air and i can still see it.

Answer 3

I've seen weather balloons, and having had a father who programmed radar for the US Air Force, I saw the launch of quite a number of them.

I've also seen objects I didn't know for certain were weather balloons, but which were later confirmed to be exactly that.

Weather balloons come in white, orange, yellow, red, and blue... all depending on which agency launches them, what purpose they have, and from what country. In the United States, the weather people and military alike use orange for weather measurements; and the military and academics use either white or yellow for non-weather functions.

There are lots of ways to identify weather balloons, but the easiest way to identify them positively is to study how clouds form from wind effects, and then watch how the object moves. Weather balloons can change direction rapidly if they hit an updraft or a downdraft, but generally make smoother arcs for changes in lateral wind direction.

Answer 4

I know exactly what a weather balloon looks like, thanks to this handy chart:

http://www.srl.caltech.edu/HEFT/images/c...

Answer 5

  I saw something when I was a teenager that I assumed was some kind of a weather balloon .It didn't look like any space ship I ever heard of. IT was shiny aluminum color ,and shaped like a single dip ice cream cone. It was pretty high up and since I was in a moving car I soon lost sight of it.

Answer 6

Lots of times.

Sometime they look rather odd...dawn and dusk lighting conditions, for example, can make them glow and appear hazy.  Also, the higher up they go, the more flattened their shapes become.  Eventually, at very high altitudes they can look like pancakes, instead of their normal tear drop shape.