In 1942, a U.S. Navy blimp lifted off from Treasure Island on a routine patrol - but when it returned, its two-man crew was gone. No struggle. No distress call. Just silence. This is the haunting ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: L-8 was a Goodyear advertising blimp repurposed by the Navy to hunt enemy submarines during WWII, and on a late summer morning in 1942, it took off ...

The Navy could pay up to $137 million to clean up the site of a World War II blimp hangar in Southern California destroyed in a fire in November, local officials estimate. What started as a Navy ...

Five weeks after a fire destroyed a 17-story World War II-era blimp hangar in Southern California, some local officials are concerned about the Navy’s pace of work and responsibility for the cost of ...

Now I’m not saying the Navy’s new spherical test blimps look like giant, fake space breasts — just because there’s a circle within a circle and a little nipple-looking bit doesn’t mean I’d be that ...

L-8 was a Goodyear advertising blimp repurposed by the Navy to hunt enemy submarines during WWII, and on a late summer morning in 1942, it took off with two crewmen aboard. Many eyewitnesses spotted ...