Japanese Balloon Bomb Just Found in Canada

[Dan Jones]

Found it here:

http://infotel.ca/newsitem/unexploded-w ... 8.facebook

Last edited by Dan Jones on Sun Oct 12, 2014 11:19 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[Adam Kline]

Very cool that the ring for heating the balloon was found with it.

[tom d. friedman]

that is most definitely a ww2 Japanese balloon bomb. I have done extensive reading on the topic. incendiary or fragmentation bombs can't be far behind, as well as sand bag ballasts that dropped off w/ the aid of a barometer activation. this is the farthest distance location of 1 since the 1 that was found in upper michigan at the end of ww2, depending on where lumby is located i'd guess way north of the su. still dangerous, as well as it's travel path prior to hitting ground.

[pjpahs]

The balloon bomb was hydrogen filled and not a hot air balloon. The ring most likely held the weights that would be let loose when the barometric pressure
changed to keep it at altitude. Lumby is in British Columbia, just north of the U.S.A. border.

[Steve Nelson]

A quick bit of Googling indicates Lumby is in British Columbia. Amazing the stuff like this still turns up after all these years. I think it's just been within the last couple years that loggers stumbled on the wreckage of an SB2C and an Anson in the northern woods.

SN

[John Dupre]

I remember reading somewhere that one of the Japanese balloon bombs overshot the US and landed in Switzerland. Or am I dreaming?

[tom d. friedman]

never heard of 1 making it to Switzerland!! I think that is a myth.