>just realized there's no sauce
Social contagion doesn't seem to require sauce, Anon.
>The FAA just closed some airspace
>You almost can hear them yawn while they saying this.
Stratospheric balloons exploit a seam between air and space, and neither Command paid much attention to threats posed by lighter-than-air vehicles. The DoD got very embarrassed lately with the media coverage of the 'Chinese spy balloon'. Commanders got called out and of course that flows downhill. The FAA yawns because hyper-vigilant junior ranks are now pushing alert buttons for routine weather balloons that they never noticed before.
That's not why those things are called 'blowholes', Anon.
>We gave away our night vision.
Sounds like a near-invisible object with no IR signature that has only been detected in daylight - i.e. a simple meteorological balloon:
Twice a day, every day of the year, weather balloons are released simultaneously from almost 900 locations worldwide! This includes 92 released by the National Weather Service in the US and its territories. The balloon flights last for around 2 hours, can drift as far as 125 miles away, and rise up to over 100,000 ft. (about 20 miles) in the atmosphere!
Weather balloons, which are made of latex or synthetic rubber (neoprene), are filled with either hydrogen or helium. The sides are about 0.051 mm thick before release and will be only 0.0025 mm thick at typical bursting altitudes! The balloons, which start out measuring about 6 ft. wide before release, expand as they rise to about 20 ft. in diameter! An instrument called a radiosonde is attached to the balloon to measure pressure, temperature and relative humidity as it ascends up into the atmosphere. These instruments will often endure temperatures as cold as -139°F (-95°C), relative humidities from 0% to 100%, air pressures only a few thousandths of what is found on the Earth's surface, ice, rain, thunderstorms, and wind speeds of almost 200 mph! A transmitter on the radiosonde sends the data back to tracking equipment on the ground every one to two seconds. By tracking the position of the radiosonde, we can also calculate wind speed and wind direction. The radiosonde is powered by a small battery.
https://www.weather.gov/bmx/kidscorner_weatherballoons