Forget about Chinese spy balloons – What about the Japanese World War II bomb balloon that landed in Metro Detroit?

(WWJ) – It's not very common that balloons hog the headlines. But that was exactly the case over the past week or so as a suspected Chinese spy balloon made its way across the U.S., ultimately being shot down off the coast of South Carolina on Saturday.

But it wasn't the first time balloons were dominating the headlines. On a new Daily J podcast, WWJ's Zach Clark takes a trip back nearly 80 years to get the story of when the Japanese used balloons to send bombs to the U.S. – with one even landing in Metro Detroit.

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