After transfixing those who could see the tiny white dot high in clear blue sky with their own eyes for the better part of a week, a 200-foot-tall Chinese spy balloon met an ignominious fate at the ...

China refused a conversation with US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin following the downing of the suspected Chinese balloon, the Pentagon said in a statement Tuesday. The Defense Department submitted a ...

The U.S. government is tracking a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon flying at high altitudes over the continental U.S., defense officials said Feb. 2 and 3. The situation is increasing tensions ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Balloons are often seen as fun, harmless decorations. But they become deadly litter as soon as they are released into the air and forgotten. To help bring attention to the ...

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Senior Lecturer in Military Strategy and Law, University of Portsmouth One of the more surreal sights of the recent Afghan war was tethered balloons (also known as “aerostats”) looming over the bases ...