Weather balloons have been drifting toward Taiwan for at least seven weeks in what defense experts say is China's latest tactic to keep up pressure on the self-ruled island, which it has vowed to ...

A map released by Taiwan's Defense Ministry shows the approximate flight paths of two balloons launched by China. Taipei said the suspected weather balloons disappeared into the atmosphere.

Meteorologists commonly use latex weather balloons a couple of times every day to gather upper air conditions. But the balloons burst about 90 minutes after launch about 60,000 to 105,000 feet ...

The balloon's flight over the U.S. added tension to the U.S.-China relationship. A massive Chinese surveillance balloon that moved across the continental U.S. this week has been shot down. The ...

China has flown similar surveillance balloons into mainland US airspace in the past, including near Florida and Texas. But US officials have acknowledged that the balloon’s maneuverability was ...

HONG KONG and LONDON -- China on Monday accused the United States of flying spy balloons into its airspace without permission more than 10 times since the start of 2022, further escalating ...

China fired the chief of its national weather service Saturday in a move widely seen as an effort to substantiate its claims that the balloon floating across the U.S. this weekend was an off ...

China is maintaining that the balloon over the U.S. is a civilian research craft, asserting "some politicians and media in the US have hyped it up." Fox News Media Fox Business ...

The Pentagon does not believe China's assertions that this was a weather balloon that flew off course. There was no "force majeure" that caused the Chinese surveillance balloon to enter U.S. airspace.