The other possibility is that these were damaged weather balloons and the fact that they were damaged is what made the electronics not signal that they were weather balloons. Can anybody confirm that at certain heights the airflow would be extreme enough to keep an object that the wind, let's say if the wind could pick it up, could it just stay up there? They will pop. Like a kite. I'm thinking it probably wouldn't, I would bet against it.

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