Mystery object falls from sky, area sealed off by military: 'Weather balloon', say officials

[1-Old-Man]

38. Thank you, but now I'm really confused. Why don't they come down all over the place every day?

You would think that just about everyone in the country would have seen one come down sooner or later if that many are being launched - and I have no reason at all to think otherwise what with the information you've provided.

Let me see. 900 a day for 365 days would come out to about 328,000 per year and making what is undoubtedly a mistaken assumption I'll say that they are evenly distributed so that would come out to about 6,500 taking off from and landing in each state per year. That might make them pretty rare to see in Texas but in a little state like West Virginia you'd think they'd be a foot deep on the ground. So why don't we see the things falling like snowflakes?