Plane..

 

Francis Gary Powers strapped into a U-2 and took off from a secret base in Pakistan on May 1, 1960. Powers, in 1956 enlisted by the CIA as a spy plane pilot. 

He was the most experienced. In his pocket, he carried a silver dollar that concealed a needle dipped in poison. If captured and subjected to torture, he could take his own life. 

The U.S. government issued a cover statement indicating that a weather plane had veered off course and supposedly crashed somewhere in the Soviet Union. 

With no small degree of pleasure, Khrushchev pulled off one of the most dramatic moments of the Cold War by producing not only the mostly-intact wreckage of the U-2, but also the captured pilot-very much alive.

A chagrined President Eisenhower had to publicly admit that it was indeed a U.S. spy plane.

Weather Plane or Weather Balloons. Just a thought.