The iconic sign of the games will take off into the sky every night, landing again at 2 a.m., for the length of the Paris Olympics. But it's tethered to the ground the whole time.

That's why flying a special-shaped balloon is complex and requires very skilled pilots like Wright-Smith, who has 45 years of ballooning experience under her belt.

China has accused the United States of “illegally” flying high-altitude balloons into its airspace more than 10 times since January 2022, claims that drew an immediate rebuttal from the White ...

NASA began flying helium-filled stratospheric balloons in the 1950s, and the Army in the mid-2010s experimented with them at lower altitudes. The service invested in a spy blimp program that it ...

A surge in sightings of balloons from China flying over Taiwan has drawn the attention of the island’s military and struck some experts as a calculatedly ambiguous warning to voters weeks before ...

It wasn’t a bird or a plane, but a balloon. Residents in Denver reported sightings of a strange-looking balloon flying over the Mile High City, calling into KDVR, a local news channel, to report ...

It said the balloon was flying at an altitude of approximately 21,000 feet. It also said 26 Chinese military aircraft and 10 navy ships were detected in the 24 hours before 6 a.m. Friday.

The US Pentagon said it was a Chinese spy balloon flying at about 60,000 feet. ... Recovery crews have been collecting some debris and are using boats and mini-subs to reach further equipment.

China has accused the United States of “illegally” flying high-altitude balloons into its airspace more than 10 times since January 2022, claims that drew an immediate rebuttal from the White ...

China has accused the United States of "illegally" flying high-altitude balloons into its airspace more than 10 times since January 2022, claims that drew an immediate rebuttal from the White ...

China has accused the United States of "illegally" flying high-altitude balloons into its airspace more than 10 times since January 2022, claims that drew an immediate rebuttal from the White ...