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The balloons were to be placed in readily accessible locations visible from nearby roads, each staffed by a DARPA agent who would issue a certificate validating each balloon location. [3] The balloons were deployed at 10:00 AM Eastern Time on December 5, 2009, and scheduled to be taken down at 5:00 PM.
The 2009 DARPA Network Challenge (also known as the Red Balloon Challenge), involving spotting 10 red balloons in the Continental United States. Red Balloon, a 1922 painting by Paul Klee; Red Balloon Learner Centres, an educational charity; Red Balloon a First Capital Connect train named after the Red Balloon Learner Centres
Nena was a West German Neue Deutsche Welle band formed in West Berlin in 1981. In 1983 and 1984, their German-language song "99 Luftballons" (and its English version, "99 Red Balloons") reached number one in the singles charts of countries around the world.
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A Loon balloon at the Christchurch launch event in June 2013. Loon LLC was an Alphabet Inc. subsidiary working on providing Internet access to rural and remote areas. The company used high-altitude balloons in the stratosphere at an altitude of 18 km (11 mi) to 25 km (16 mi) to create an aerial wireless network with up to 1 Mbit/s speeds.
Hillary Clinton became the first female presidential nominee for a major party in U.S. history. Then the balloons started falling. Cue the fun.
The 70-foot (21-meter) catamaran called the MV Sea Change will transport up to 75 passengers along the waterfront between Pier 41 and the downtown San Francisco ferry terminal starting July 19 ...
The German version doesn't mention any colour and the English version only uses "red" because it's a one-syllable word that works in context in order to keep the metre: "neun'n-neun-zig Luft-bal-lons" and "nine-ty-nine red bal-loons" are close enough to make the song work with either. It's quite obviously aimed at the Western World, if anything.