The U.S. Air Force may have shot down an inexpensive pico balloon from ham radio enthusiasts last week, thinking it was something bigger. Pico balloons are usually used to measure weather variables.

CHICAGO (CBS) --President Biden mentioned private companies and research institutions while delivering remarks to the unidentified objects Thursday. Now it seems some amateur balloonists based right ...

When the US Air Force shot down some suspected Chinese spy balloons a couple of weeks ago, it was widely reported that one of the targets might have been a much more harmless amateur radio craft. The ...

Did a superpower showdown provoke the U.S. into using a fighter jet to shoot down a hobbyist group's research balloon in Canada? That's the question the public — and the FBI — wants to answer, after ...

Last Saturday, high above Canada’s Yukon territory, the pilot of a $150 million U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor, acting on orders from the leaders of both Canada and the U.S., fired a $472,000 AIM-9X ...