For those of you who live north of Boston… Did you see a big, BIG dark flat square thing up in the sky this morning around 7:00 in the area where 128 meets 95N (around Topsfield)? What the heck was it? Was it being towed by an airplane or just floating around?
I live up that way, but I was gone by 7 AM, so I can’t say.
Many years ago, on the morning of the day I graduated with my doctorate, I looked out my window and saw a weird-shaped speck down at the southern end of the bowl of mountains surrounding Salt Lake City. as I got dressed, I could see it getting closer and bigger, and it slowly resolved itself into…
…a tyrannosaurus-shaped balloon! It must have been Huge. It passed directly over my hotel.
There was no gondola on this – nothing that could carry a passenger, and there were no guy lines or controls of any kind I could see. And no writing on it. Nothing indicated who had launched this, or why. To this day I don’t know why there was a giant untethered T. Rex balloon floating over Salt Lake City that morning. (and this was way before any ceremonies or anything, so I don’t even think it was associated with the graduation.)
National Aerial Advertising operates out of North Andover. So my guess would be a towed banner. But if I happen to see any obelisks overhead today, I’ll let you know.
Was it full of stars?
It was the hopes and prayers of all Red Sox fans being wisked away by a host od Angels (God is a Yankees fan) 
It didn’t look like an advertising banner, it was really big and square and was much higher than a banner and didn’t appear to have any writing on it. Oh well I’ll just keep guessing!!!
It’s GAY MARRIAGE! Oh NO! It’s coming to destroy us all! The fundies were right!
Did it hang in the air precisely the way gold bricks don’t?
Maybe it was a PopTart that was closer than you realized.
Was Marlon Brando anywhere around? If so, maybe they were sending some criminals to the Phantom Zone.
CalMeacham, what year was this? I’m a hot air balloon pilot, and am curious about this TRex you saw.
It was probably an air-mail stamp.
The soul of Martha Stewart, drifting inexorably towards perdition
Summer of 1988. June, I’m pretty sure.
There was no visible gondola, and noplace that I could see anyone controlling it from. It looked like a giant, untethered T rex balloon.
There’s a photograph of it (or one like it–how many could there be?) at the bottom of this page. It was made by World Balloon, a company specializing in creating custom hot-air balloons for advertising, motion pictures and the like.
You said Massachusettes, right? Isn’t it obvious? It’s the soul that John Kerry sold to the Devil to win the Democratic nomination last night. Incidentally, it wasn’t his soul, but the soul of one of his Vietnam Vet friends.
Definitely sounds like a Vogon Constructor fleet. Hope that fancy new expressway in Boston was worth it.
Actually, World Balloon is the company that owns the various ballons, but the “Special Shapes” are usually designed and built by either Cameron Balloons (UK) or Aerostar (US). Sorry for the hijack.
If gay marriages are allowed to fly big black square thingies, the terrorists will have ripped the fabric of The Passion of Karl Rove.
Also, you can’t make a silk purse out of a pig in a poke.
It was a Borg cube. Resistance is futile.