# "Guy in a jetpack" reported at LAX

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guy-in-a-jetpack-reported-at-lax/919559>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 1, 2020, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guy-in-a-jetpack-reported-at-lax/919559 "2020-09-01T22:58:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2021, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guy-in-a-jetpack-reported-at-lax/919559/61 "2021-11-04T19:13:07Z")

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Latest theory: might have been an inflatable party decoration.

> **[LA 'jetpack man' was probably a balloon](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59167345)**
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> Investigators think a figure seen flying over Los Angeles was actually a life-size inflatable.

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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2021, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guy-in-a-jetpack-reported-at-lax/919559/62 "2021-11-04T20:24:50Z")

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[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/DjgguJt9qNk/hqdefault.jpg "F Troop Balloon") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjgguJt9qNk)

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**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2021, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guy-in-a-jetpack-reported-at-lax/919559/63 "2021-11-05T14:27:51Z")

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There was a morning radio station that did a silly stunt for a couple of years called the Vag Project [spoilered link - mildly NSFW](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U1cpXafA4Q) where they took a sex doll, tied her to a helium (weather?) balloon, along with a GPS tracker & a GoPro & set her free…until one year it went high into Class B airspace including near the glide path for a major airport (PHL) & a number of people (including myself) told them that’s a good way to take out an engine / potentially bring down a plane. Someone wised up & that was the last year they did that. It was funny while it lasted, though.

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**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2021, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guy-in-a-jetpack-reported-at-lax/919559/64 "2021-11-05T16:01:13Z")

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It (is) BALLOON!

I’ve quoted that for decades and never knew where it came from.

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