Japan bombed America with balloons. 🎈 285 incidents from Alaska to Mexico and Michigan, and one shut down the reactors making plutonium for the atomic bomb. Did one land in your state? 🇯🇵🇺🇸🇨🇦 🎈 Nov 1944: about 9,300 paper balloons with bombs rise from Japan's coast 🌬️ The winter jet stream carries them across the Pacific in about 3 days 📰 Jan 1945: a press blackout keeps the landings secret ⚡ 10 Mar 1945: one hits a power line in Washington, and Hanford's reactors shut down 🗺️ By August: 285 incidents in 17 states, Alaska, Hawaii, Canada and Mexico Did one land in your state? 👇