WASHINGTON (TND) — A small mylar balloon may have been one of three unidentified aerial objects shot down in North American airspace by fighter jets, according to a report from Aviation Week. AW says ...

Bob Barbarick has piloted visitors and locals in his hot air balloons above Napa Valley since 1977. More than four decades later, he’s ready for someone else to keep his business flying high.

They are cheap, colorful and captivating when they fly away in the air. For years, balloons have helped to celebrate joyous events or signify somber memorials, but what goes up also comes down — and ...