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BIO: As a youth growing up in Savannah, Georgia; Lt. Tim McMillan (Ret.) never thought he’d one day end up a police officer. However, in July of 2002, after the murder of two childhood friends, Lt. McMillan found himself consumed with a burning desire to make a positive difference in his community. Less than a year after that tragic July night – at only 21-years old- Lt. McMillan would raise his right hand and be sworn in as a police officer in Garden City Police Georgia.
During his law enforcement career, Lt. McMillan served in a diverse number of roles, including, Patrol Officer; Investigator; Crime Scene Technician; K9-handler; Sergeant, Lieutenant and Assistant Patrol Commander.
Lt. McMillan holds numerous law enforcement certifications including being a criminal investigative and intelligence analyst. Additionally, Lt. McMillan is a P.O.S.T. certified instructor – teaching numerous courses for academy, local, state and federal law enforcement and domestic intelligence officers.
In 2006-2007, Lt. McMillan was named “Officer of the Year” with GCPD. In 2012, while serving as the Part-time Beach Patrol Commander, he was named the 2012 Police Officer of the year for the Tybee Island Police Department. Additionally, of the course of his career, Lt. McMillan was awarded seven Chief’s Accommodations for exceptional service; and in 2004, he was formally commended by Georgia Governor Sonny Purdue for his service during the G8 Summit.
1990s Nellis UFO: https://www.military.com/video/aircraft/unidentified-flying-objects/ufo-filmed-by-us-air-force-at-nellis/904352905001
People need to stop focusing on the stats about Mylar balloons and how high they can ascend. Why? Simply put, just because a balloon could ascend to these heights doesn’t mean anything. Even if statistics stated that Mylar balloons could NOT ascend to these heights, there would always be exceptions to the rule.
I doubt a pilot would want to risk their reputation by reporting anything that could simply be concluded as a balloon… let alone a Batman balloon! Unless this is all a joke, but Tim McMillon is claiming that the source is from an official UAP task force case file…. so I doubt very much that it’s a joke.
Just because this uap has a similar shape as a Batman balloon doesn’t mean it is a Batman balloon. The balloon doesn’t have graphics or paint that suggest it’s Batman!
A real balloon, Mylar or otherwise, will not float upright without a string with some sort of a weight to stabilize itself.
A pilot, in an F-18, will cruise at 400 to 600 mph. Imagine trying to take a picture of a typical balloon, that is no more than 12″ wide at this speed… with an iPhone? Not a chance that the phone would take a clear picture of this size object with a clear blue background. The camera would NOT focus on this small object. This leads me to suspect that the object was moving and that perhaps the object is a lot bigger than we can comprehend. Perhaps the pilot was chasing it and was able to click off a few photos?
When you look at the GIF that’s flying around the web that superimposes the batman balloon over the uap, my gut feeling is that they look somewhat similar, but hardly the same. The uap looks much deeper, and the edges are much more jagged and it looks metallic. Not like a tinfoil looking batman balloon.
Typical wind speeds at 40000 feet are in the 150 to 160 mph range. If this were a balloon, it wouldn’t be sitting there perfectly perpendicular and properly horizontal (like you would want to see a Batman balloon) to the camera. The balloon would be all over the place, upside down and sideways and on an angle…. The pilot would need to take many passes and snap off many pictures and even then I doubt the image would look as perfect as it was captured.