A Giant Balloon Was Spotted in Montana. It’s All Anyone Can Talk About.

HELENA, Mont. — Larry Mayer, a newspaper photographer, pointed his camera to the sky on Wednesday and began snapping pictures of what appeared to be a mysterious white orb hanging in the sky over Billings, Mont. He didn’t know what he was looking at, but he knew something was up — way up, like 60,000 feet up. “They shut down the airport and wouldn’t let anyone land or take off, but wouldn’t say why,” said Mr. Mayer, who works for The Billings Gazette and is also a pilot. By the…