<P> While at a June 1982 concert by the Rolling Stones in West Berlin, Nena's guitarist Carlo Karges noticed that balloons were being released . As he watched them move toward the horizon, he noticed them shifting and changing shapes, where they looked like strange spacecraft (referred to in the German lyrics as a "UFO"). He thought about what might happen if they floated over the Berlin Wall to the Soviet sector . </P> <P> Also cited by the band was a newspaper article from the Las Vegas Review - Journal about five local high school students who in 1973 played a prank to simulate a UFO by launching 99 (one was lost from the original 100) aluminized Mylar balloons attached with ribbons to a traffic flare . The red flame from the flare reflected by the balloons gave the appearance of a large pulsating red object floating over Red Rock Canyon outside the Las Vegas valley . </P> <P> A direct translation of the title is sometimes given as "Ninety - Nine Air Balloons", but the song became known in English as "Ninety - Nine Red Balloons". The title "99 Red Balloons" almost scans correctly with the syllables falling in the right places within the rhythm of the first line of lyrics: "red" partially replacing a flourish of the singer before "Luft". Neunundneunzig (99) has one syllable more than "ninety - nine", so the last syllable and "Luft" are blended in the English translation and become "red". </P> <P> The lyrics of the original German version tell a story: 99 balloons are mistaken for UFOs, causing a General to send pilots to investigate . Finding nothing but children's balloons, the pilots decide to put on a show and shoot them down . The display of force worries the nations along the borders and the Defence ministers on each side bang the drums of conflict to grab power for themselves . In the end, a 99 - year war results from the otherwise harmless flight of balloons, causing devastation on all sides without a victor . At the end, the singer walks through the devastated ruins and lets loose a balloon, watching it fly away . </P>

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