Fu-Go Balloon Bombs Strike the . | Men in Black | May 22, 1945

In a fantastic effort Japan hit the United States mainland with balloon bombs. Men in Black worked as long as possible to cover up the incident. The United States War Department and Mainstream News Media, working in conjunction, hid this information from the American Public. Who: Stars and Stripes Newspaper (Owned by UFO Seekers®) What: Japanese Balloon Bombs Where: United States When: May 22, 1945 Why: Relevant to Current Events (Mystery Drones) “Fu-Go (ふ号[兵器], fugō [heiki], lit. “Code ’Fu’ [Weapon]“) was an incendiary balloon weapon (風船爆弾, fūsen bakudan, lit. “balloon bomb“) deployed by Japan against the United States during World War II. It consisted of a hydrogen-filled paper balloon 33 feet (10 m) in diameter, with a payload of four 11-pound (5.0 kg) incendiary devices and one 33-pound (15 kg) high-explosive anti-personnel bomb. The uncontrolled balloons were carried over the Pacific Ocean from Japan to North America by fast, high-altitude air currents, today known as the jet stream, and used a sophisticated sandbag ballast system to maintain their altitude. The bombs were intended to ignite large-scale forest fires and spread panic. Between November 1944 and April 1945, the Imperial Japanese Army launched about 9,300 balloons from sites on coastal Honshu, of which about 300 were found or observed in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. The bombs were ineffective as fire starters due to damp seasonal conditions, with no forest fires being attributed to the offensive. A U.S. media censorship campaign prevented the Imperial Army from learning of the offensive’s results. On May 5, 1945, six civilians were killed by one of the bombs near Bly, Oregon, becoming the war’s only fatalities in the contiguous U.S. The Fu-Go balloon bomb was the first weapon system with intercontinental range, predating the intercontinental ballistic missile.“ - Wikipedia Learn More: Images shown are work of a U.S. Army soldier or employee, taken or made as part of that person’s official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, it is in the public domain in the United States.