Join Me and Win up to $40,000 in the DARPA Red Balloon Project!

THIS IS BIG, BIG, BIG! Believe it or not, on Saturday, December 5th, our very own DoD (Department of Defense) will be taking time off from their busy Afghanistan build-up schedule to launch ten 8-foot red balloons at various locations around the United States for the DARPA Network Challenge.

Are you up to the challenge?

BUT WAIT! That’s not all! They are offering $40,000 to the first person who locates their balloons and reports back to them with the correct latitude and longitude for each one.

You heard me right! I said $40,000. If you don’t believe me, click HERE to get the word from the bureaucrat’s mouth.

Now a lot of people are getting pretty excited about this. Search teams are forming all over the country. They will be using satellites and drone airplanes to scour the nation. Remote viewing experts will be convening in Area 51. Mega-geeks, those “best of the best” will be gathered ’round the water the coolers at Goldman-Sachs to run game-theory algorithms on their Macbook Pros. Twitter will be smokin’. Hang on, ’cause the great race is on and I for one,  do not intend to be left behind. I have already put several big ticket items on layaway, pending my, or should I say “OUR” big win!

THAT’S RIGHT! I am inviting you, YES YOU!,  to hop on board my choo-choo train to riches. All you need to do is keep your eye out for red balloons this coming Saturday. When you spot one, just write down the number of the balloon, its latitude and longitude, and send it to me using the OFFICIAL RED BALLON REPORTING FORM below. If you don’t have a GPS with you when you spot the balloon, you can just note any prominent landmark within 1 km and note it on the reporting form. Once I have filed my report with the correct locations for each of the 10 ballons and collect my winnings, I will promptly prepare a money shipment to YOU!

So you are probably asking, how much money will I send to you? Let me say that it will be a lot of money, as in a sizable chunk of change. The amount will have quite a few zeros associated with it — say as many as six, if you get my drift. You may very well have enough money to pay off that stuff you put on your credit card last Friday. What’s more, you can take my assurances to the bank. Trust me!

Okay, let’s get our project off the ground.

IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS

1. All of the balloons will be red and about 8-feet in diameter. Like this…

OFFICIAL DoD Balloon

2. Watch out! There may be some red balloons around that don’t belong to the DoD. You can determine if the balloon you are looking at is OFFICIAL DoD because there will be a DoD guy hanging around the RBOT (Red Balloon Operating Theater). He might look like this…

OFFICIAL GENERAL

Then again, he might might look like some ordinary guy or girl, so you might want to just ask people in the RBOT if they are with the DoD. DoD types are honor bound to tell you the truth. If they are not DoD, they might lie, so if the person saying “Yes” is lying, it’s definitely not a DoD balloon, unless you’re asking the wrong person in the first place, in which case, you’ll need to keep asking.

3. Each balloon will have a number attached to it. Be sure and get the number right, otherwise, I won’t send you your money.

DoD Balloon hiding behind tree (Note number!)

4. When you record your balloon lattiude and longitude, be sure to use the “degrees, minutes, seconds” notation that sailors use and not the “degrees, tenths, and hundredths” notation used by landlubbers.

GPS

5. The balloons will only be flying on Saturday during daylight hours, so get out there early and bring a bag lunch so you won’t have to take time off for lunch.

Well that’s it. I will be standing by here at my computer waiting for your report. I know we can do it if we just stick together. Let’s make this a really, really, merry Christmas and happy Chaunnuka!

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OFFICIAL RED BALLON SITING REPORT FORM

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