Article feom three years ago.
Credit to https://twitter.com/sphinxhaven/status/1621473569204015105?s=46&t=yBkgS7E-HwcqEdtmxmRqoA
Up to 25 unmanned solar-powered balloons are being launched from rural South Dakota and drifting 250 miles through an area spanning portions of Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin and Missouri, before concluding in central Illinois.
Given these examples I will retract to my study to figure out if there's a unifying thread in american discourse about being really, really mad at various forms of heated air or gasses