A large balloon used by US Customs and Border Protection for surveillance along the Texas border broke free and traveled about 600 miles to the north before crashing as high winds swept through ...

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In 1999, Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones landed near Cairo after becoming the first people to circle the globe by balloon. In 2005, a 17-year-old boy at the Red Lake Indian Reservation in ...