Yesterday afternoon, Arizonans called the Federal Aviation Administration in droves to report an unidentified flying object that turned out to be a 4,000-lb. NASA weather balloon. It's not the first time people have mistaken the things for alien spacecraft, but when we saw the pictures of the object residents saw in the sky, we had to conclude that no one in the state of Arizona has ever seen a movie about Martians before.

Check out the lame excuse for a UFO after the jump.