On May 5, 1945, Rev. Archie Mitchell and his wife took a group of five children from their church on a tragic outing in the woods near Bly, Oregon. Something strange -- a large deflated balloon -- ...

Right around New Year’s Day, 1945, the Japanese army released an unmanned balloon from the east coast of the main island of Honshu. It was made of 600 pieces of paper glued together, in all likelihood ...

Chinese surveillance balloon's flight over the US has highlighted the military uses of balloons. During World War II, Japan used balloons to strike the US as US troops advanced across the Pacific.

The Japanese balloon bomb offensive on U.S. soil was a closely guarded secret for the latter part of World War II. It marked one of a handful of instances of Japanese attacks on U.S. soil in addition ...

It may have been one of the least effective, most mysterious attacks ever launched against the U.S, but caused the only known combat deaths in the 48 states. It was 1944, and Japanese scientists had ...

It’s not a very well-known story, but a small town north of Cadillac was the victim of a Japanese attack during World War II. Corey Adkins sat down with Nancy Sanders of the Mesick Area Historical ...

In the waning days of World War II, the Japanese devised balloon bombs that could travel more than 5,000 miles via the jet stream to explode on North American soil. One of these bombs killed six ...

Editor's note: This archival article was first published on July 26, 2019. It has been edited to update some references. CASS LAKE, Minn. — There would have been no way for the small church group to ...

BYRON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Lawrence “Buzz” Baily was 9 years old and headed to a local sledding hill with two friends when they noticed a large balloon descending over a North Dorr farm field near ...

In late January, a mysterious balloon was spotted floating over U.S. waters and later hovered around Montana above missile sites. The balloon, which turned out to be a surveillance balloon from China, ...