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An Illinois-based club of amateur balloonists says one of its small balloons is "missing in action" after last reporting its location over Alaska on Saturday, the same day the US military shot down an ...

A small balloon was spotted drifting high above the Western United States but poses no security threat, military officials said Friday. A spokesperson for the North American Aerospace Defense Command ...

A balloon intercepted by fighter aircraft over Utah on Friday was a "likely hobby balloon" and has since left United States airspace, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said Saturday ...

Did a superpower showdown provoke the U.S. into using a fighter jet to shoot down a hobbyist group's research balloon in Canada? That's the question the public — and the FBI — wants to answer, after ...

A missing balloon launched by a small group of Illinois hobbyists emerged Thursday as the latest potential theory behind one of the unidentified objects the U.S. military shot down over the weekend, ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Decisions to shoot down multiple unidentified objects over the U.S. and Canada this month have put a spotlight on amateur balloonists who insist their creations pose no threat.

Angela Des Jardins never actually saw the alleged Chinese spy balloon when it made an appearance over Montana earlier this month. "It was over Billings, which is a couple hours east of here," says Des ...