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Late that night, I dreamed the fire balloon came back and drifted by my window.
Now and again, early in the evening, someone would light a fire balloon and loft it into the air.
I'd helped my grandpa carry the box in which lay, like a gossamer spirit, the paper-tissue ghost of a fire balloon waiting to be breathed into, filled, and set adrift toward the midnight sky.
A Japanese "fire balloon" packed with explosives had flown approximately 5,000 miles across the Pacific, landed on Gearheart mountain, and lay dormant until the victims inadvertently detonated it.
The fire balloon still drifts and burns in the night sky of an as yet unblemished summer.
However, on 10 March 1945, a Japanese fire balloon struck a power line, and the resulting power surge caused the three reactors at Hanford to be temporarily shut down.
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