> Based on no information whatsoever, anything might be true. Agreed, that's the problem right there. An absence of information breeds all sorts of crackpot th

> Based on no information whatsoever, anything might be true. Agreed, that's the problem right there. An absence of information breeds all sorts of crackpot theories, rarely generated according to Occam's razor. The most prosaic explanations of all of these are that we're looking at balloons, released to study weather, winds etc. However, unless the government releases some images of what they saw, the new-age fringe will immediately jump to the conclusion of little green men from zeta reticuli.