Chinese lanterns

[Artyom]

As I was observing a Chinese lantern flew by me couple hundreds meters above I got a crazy idea that these lanterns could be a brand new smoke screen since swamp has and Venice are an old school -

Well, seriously speaking these lanterns are adding even more misinterpreted observation reports to media and giving more weight to the wish to brash all sightings with the same brush -

 

[Sentry]

Here's a misinformation-laden report of just the thing you are suggesting:
Balloon go up over Pine Gap