They are just taunting us. In WW2 the Japanese floated balloons with incendiary bombs over the northwest. Started some forest fires.
“In WW2 the Japanese floated balloons with incendiary bombs....”
Yep. A very interesting story most are unaware of.
The engineering behind keeping the balloons at the proper altitude to travel that distance was very clever.
The balloon bombs apparently didn't start any wildfires, because they landed during winter, when it's pretty rainy and snowy. A Japanese airplane attack in September 1942, near Brookings, OR, did start a couple of small fires that were quickly put out.