During World War II, Japan launched a little-known but deadly attack on North America using balloon bombs. These silent weapons traveled thousands of miles across the Pacific, designed to cause ...

The attacks prompted the Japanese to seek a way to bring the war to the United States. It took two years before they found the right instrument: a new weapon, the balloon bomb. From November of 1944 ...

Japan has removed a legal barrier to shooting down suspicious objects flying in its airspace amid fears the country must increasingly contend with intrusions by foreign spy balloons. The Defense ...

During World War II, this gave the former Imperial Japanese Army the idea of attacking the far-away U.S. mainland with bombs that were suspended from balloons. Called “Fu-Go” incendiary ...

Alberigi was 14 when a Japanese balloon bomb landed in his family’s apple orchard near Forestville in 1945. He cracked the case for a Press Democrat reporter 77 years later. Gina Donaldson ...