There are worse things than balloons....

[uk 75]

F15s over Japan both JASDF and USAF in action against an aerial intruder...

View: https://youtu.be/FDJJf-kqSiQ

 

[Brett Davidson]

The real reason why closed cockpits were invented. First published in The Strand, 1913.

https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/19/tales-of-terror-and-mystery/72/the-horror-of-the-heights/
TL,DR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Horror_of_the_Heights

Facsimile: https://archive.org/details/1913the...dmagazine1913bvol.xlvijuldec/page/n7/mode/2up

Alternate illustrations: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/Henry_Reuterdahl

 

[Brett Davidson]

Probably related to this creature, Occulonimbus edoequus.

https://nerdist.com/article/nope-al...ultant-interview-kelsi-rutledge-jordan-peele/