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In late 1944, the Japanese military began launching 9,000 unmanned bomb-carrying balloons across the Pacific to bombard the West Coast. Most of the balloon bombs fell harmlessly in the ocean. About 300 balloon bombs landed in the U.S. Canada, and Mexico.

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Have you ever heard of “Balloon Bombs” and government cover-ups? Most people have never heard of the Balloon Bombs of 1944. With today’s media commentary, here is MTSU Professor Larry Burriss… Verbatim of Above Audio: “Starting in November 1944, the Japanese launched some 9,300 balloon bombs against the United States, of which about 300 made their way across the Pacific Ocean. Eventually, the bombs caused six deaths in Oregon, and minor damage e...

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Come down all up and down the west coast of north america. this is footage from just after the war. >> the balloon came down in canada and the united states. demolition squads were on constant alert. most landed without exploding. the threat persisted until the wars end and only today we learn a secret long. >> the military could not know where the bombs were going to come down once they launched them in japan. its part of a reason the limit the scare factor. but one of the things the japanese h...

Directional mechanism at all. it just floats on air currents. its made out of really light paper that was made out of tree bark. thats what the balloon itself is made out of. its really big, about 33 feet across. its filled with hydrogen which is how it floats on air. and this 33-foot in diameter paper balloon filled with hydrogen is carrying a military-grade explosive payload. its an balloon bomb. somewhere between 6,000 and 9,000 balloon bombs like this one were launched by japan during world ...

These balloon bombs would do they particularly hoped they would cause forest fires along the heavily-wooded parts of the west coast, especially in places like oregon and washington. and they did start some fires. none of them terribly devastating. but these balloon bombs came down, you know all over the place, depending on where the wind blew them. one of them made it all the way east to nebraska and blew up over omaha, nebraska on april 18th 1945. this one was found on the ground with the bomb ...

Air, that the jet stream would pick them up and carry them all the way across the pacific ocean to north america. and depending on where the winds carried them these balloon bombs would come down all up and down the west coast of north america. this is newsreel footage from just after the war. watch. >> hundreds of the balloons came down in canada and the united states. incendiaries and high-explosive bombs caused some damage but demolition squads were on constant alert. most landed without expl...