These items spotted around the sun are fairly regular, generally consistent in appearance (they don't look like random acts of nature) and when taken into context with their location, just way too big to be a Chinese lantern. To date, NASA has never made much effort to identify or explain them... which could be that they are too busy looking for a new job since the current administration began gutting their employer, or because they don't want to say out loud what we just did here.