▲ 26 ▼ I spotted some sort of balloon floating directly over Perth airport just now (lemmy.world) submitted 1 month ago by Agent641@lemmy.world to c/perth@aussie.zone 9 comments fedilink hide all child comments On closeup it definitely seems to have some sort of payload hanging from it, and its getting knocked around by the wind quite a bit, It doesn't appear to be falling though, just drifting west
[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 child) Could be a skydiver, no? Hard to tell how big it is. permalink fedilink source hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Agent641@lemmy.world [S] 1 point 1 month ago* I don't think it's a skydiver, it doesn't look canopy shaped, it looks balloon shaped. Also it didn't fall, it just drifted. Besides, skydivers famously try to avoid international airports It's hard to say how big it is, or how high. Weather balloons can be huge, and flying at 12km+ altitude it can look like a much smaller balloon flying much lower. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Agent641@lemmy.world [S] 1 point 1 month ago* I don't think it's a skydiver, it doesn't look canopy shaped, it looks balloon shaped. Also it didn't fall, it just drifted. Besides, skydivers famously try to avoid international airports It's hard to say how big it is, or how high. Weather balloons can be huge, and flying at 12km+ altitude it can look like a much smaller balloon flying much lower. permalink fedilink source parent