Barrage balloons were used by many countries in WW2, including Britain and the U.S., and played a vital role in the Normandy ...

Those spy balloons were launched from Turkey. My dad didn’t talk about this part of his career much, likely because the work was secret, but the program has long since been declassified since it ...

The love affair with balloons started long before airplanes took flight ... this fiscal year to study the possibility. But it's clear that the wind isn't backing down either.

REUTERS/Randall Hill/File Photo The nation’s learned that three Trump-era balloons were only ID’d as likely spycraft long after the ... the nation deserves some clear answers — and cause ...

Each balloon carried two persons, the pilot and an assistant. They were all muffled against cold, and prepared to face a hard journey. Little sleep is possible on a long voyage, and intense cold ...

Yet those previous incursions didn’t go on for so long, or reach so far into ... key targeting priority was to avoid shooting clear through the balloon, which might have left it largely intact ...

Dr. Robert Thomas says these balloons can cause a slew of long-term effects, one of them knocking out power. Dr. Thomas said, "It's really costing thousands and thousands of dollars for thousands ...