At the dismay of environmental and wildlife advocates, the Louisiana governor vetoed a bill to ban balloon releases, saying ...

A sea turtle with a balloon string extruding from its digestive system. Balloons often drift over the ocean and land on the water's surface, where turtles and other marine animals can mistake them ...

Runaway balloons. Things at the test launch appear to be going smoothly, ... It turns out they forgot to reset a device that is supposed to cut the string at the end of the flight.

The string from weather balloons launched annually in the United States alone could stretch to the peak of Mount Everest 185 times. Jennifer Provencher, ...

A string of “unidentified objects” entered North American skies in the past few days only to be shot down by US military aircraft. And, no, the objects aren’t the work of aliens. Human-made ...

A spokesman for Ukraine's air force said the balloons had plain metal triangles suspended with string below them, saying that was enough to appear like an incoming missile or drone on radars.