From: Matthew Gress (zardoz@pconline.com)
Date: Fri Jul 18 1997 - 15:13:50 MDT
On Sun, 13 Jul 1997 EvMick@aol.com wrote:
>> But RICE PAPER...not very metallic...and the ballons
...individually...were
>> rather small...didn't appear that one would cover much area at
all....when
>> ripped to shreds...and this all occured further north ...I think.
Mark Grant <mark@unicorn.com> responded
>Yep, crazy idea... There was a discussion of these balloons on the
>cypherpunks list a few months ago and apparently they mostly landed on
>the West Coast; the only known casualties were a couple of people in
>Oregon.
Mindless trivia time:
High school in Omaha, Nebraska (Commute from Council Bluffs, IA)
History Teacher told us that a Japanese Balloon Bomb landed at
48th and Underwood (Cue: Mapquest) and broke a lot of windows, but did
little else.
Baloon Bombs: Little strategic relavence, decent story fodder.
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