This image was posted on X by Scott Manley and shows a WindBorne weather balloon payload (left) and the United Airlines 737’s cracked windshield. Manley wrote: “...looks like - they used sand as ...

Students from Piedmont Elementary School launched a weather balloon on Friday afternoon. “This is one of the biggest highlights of the year for these kids,” said Piedmont Science and 5 th Grade ...

Weather forecasting relies heavily on data collected at ground level, but understanding the atmosphere's upper layers is equally crucial. Thousands of weather stations across the United States measure ...

A mysterious object that cracked a windshield on a United Airlines flight, injuring a pilot and forcing an emergency landing, may have been a weather balloon.WindBorne, a California start-up focused ...

A United Airlines flight diverted to Salt Lake City last week after the pilots discovered a crack in one of the layers of the windshield, and a weather balloon may have been what caused the crack, ...

A United Airlines plane appears to have collided with a weather balloon while cruising over Utah at 36,000 feet last week, fracturing layers of its windshield and forcing an emergency landing. A ...

The CEO of WindBorne Systems, John Dean, joins FOX Weather to share his insights on the alarming situation where a weather balloon may have struck an aircraft, forcing the crew to divert their flight.

Internet sleuths may have found evidence that it wasn’t space debris that hit a United Airlines flight last week, but a weather balloon. A WindBorne balloon, to be precise, seemed to be the culprit, ...

A United Airlines plane appears to have collided with a weather balloon while cruising over Utah at 36,000 feet last week, fracturing layers of its windshield and forcing an emergency landing. Disney ...