That admission made the 1947 story about a weather balloon a white lie.

A domestic chair is attached to a weather balloon and launched into space.

Now they're going after the frequencies used to guide weather balloons.

"Let's say you have two weather balloons 200 miles apart," he said.

There is no chance he would have mistaken it for a weather balloon.

And for another his so-called weather balloons are nothing of the sort.

"Why would you have a covert program for filling weather balloons?"

The news story ended with the identification of the weather balloon.

It is the same reason that when weather balloons are launched they do not appear to be full.

I believe this is the system used with the weather balloons.