Have not found any pilot names for this or your other post on the Fu Go balloon but few interesting links:
A gun camera video of a shoot-down:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFoota...japanese_fugo/
(At the 52-53 second mark, it appears that a P-38 crosses in front from left to right, not sure what that pilot was thinking.)
The same gun camera film is part of this longer video (unfortunately with the "Critical Past" logo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XPnFRasAJQ
A period navy film on the balloons:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGW9mw_zKf0
They are still finding remains of these balloons (this one found last year):
https://www.therockymountaingoat.com...ZyU6MgHBgx8c**
A link to download the 54th FS History Book (a pdf file from the National Park Service). It mentions 5 balloons shot down (pdf page 23) but no info on who did it.
https://www.nps.gov/aleu/learn/histo...ll-pgs-508.pdf
For those with fold3 access a Navy summary report on April Balloon Activity starts here:
https://www.fold3.com/image/296107529
UPDATE
I agree that the link you gave to the Robert C Mikesh booklet published by the Smithsonian does give a good overview but it does contain some errors such as the Hellcat shootdowns.
It is interesting that the RCAF pilots (flying P-40s) who shot down three balloons are known:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss_P-40_Warhawk
"In early 1945 pilots from No. 133 Squadron RCAF, operating the P-40N out of RCAF Patricia Bay, (Victoria, BC), intercepted and destroyed two Japanese balloon-bombs,[81] which were designed to cause wildfires on the North American mainland. On 21 February, Pilot Officer E. E. Maxwell shot down a balloon, which landed on Sumas Mountain in Washington State. On 10 March, Pilot Officer J. 0. Patten destroyed a balloon near Saltspring Island, BC. The last interception took place on 20 April 1945 when Pilot Officer P.V. Brodeur from 135 Squadron out of Abbotsford, British Columbia shot down a balloon over Vedder Mountain"