Military Blimp Came Off Tether at Aberdeen Proving Ground

[MowCowWhoHow III]

Last edited Wed Oct 28, 2015, 03:20 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: CBS

BERDEEN, Md. (WJZ) — One of the military blimps from Aberdeen Proving Ground has come loose, NORAD confirmed Wednesday.

The JLENS blimp came off its tether around 11:54 a.m. in Edgewood and is now flying somewhere over Pennsylvania and being monitored by two F-16 fighters.

The blimp is holding at around 16,00 feet, NORAD reports.

The aerostat took with it about 6,700 feet of cable.

Read more: http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2015/10/28/report-military-blimp-came-off-tether/

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[Tipperary]

1. I have been watching this. Amazing.

[luvspeas]

2. I was on I-95 this week looking at those things...

They are supposed to monitor potential nuclear threats by air. I thought they looked like 2 bloated twigs and berries (ifyouknowwhatimean).

Fly high little bunny!

[underpants]

3. Blimps must live in the wild not tethered in captivity!!!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

10. If you love something, set it free.

[Blue_Tires]

4. Nooooooooo!

Come back!!!

Or at least take me with you!!!!!!!

[Tipperary]

5. Balloon boy lives!

[jtuck004]

6. What did this prove? n/t

[johnfunk]

7. It's the blimp!

[Gregorian]

11. The draisy hoops!

[Brother Buzz]

8. "Lawnchair Larry" and his pellet gun could have remedied this in a snap

RIP Larry Walters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Walters

[mahatmakanejeeves]

9. Someone please make a fake picture of Baghdad Bob denying

that such a thing is happening, while a blimp is hovering quite clearly in the background.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

12. Remake of The War of the Worlds?

It's headed directly for Grover's Mill, New Jersey, isn't it?

I watched a rerun about this on PBS last night.

The War of the Worlds (radio drama)

[Sunlei]

15. probably snag on Christies bridge & rip it down and really stop the traffic flow.

[KamaAina]

16. Actually, if it were headed anywhere in NJ, it'd be to Lakewood

Oh, the hugh manatee!!1!!!11!!1!!11!!!

[drm604]

13. Last report was that it had descended

and is now dragging nearly 2 miles of cable along the ground in western Pennsylvania, snagging power lines and leaving thousands of homes without power. Damn, I would not want to be in the path of that cable.

[dembotoz]

17. is this who fox blamed for the power outage at the world series last night?????

[Sunlei]

14. so it will drag that 2 mile long cable across entire states before it crashes somewhere out to sea?

what a clusterfuck 'accident'

[erronis]

18. Oooh! Let's see if an F-35 can actually fly, and can actually find it,

And is capable of bringing it down without the 3B$ jet failing and the pilot (hopefully) surviving.

Ain't MIC technology grand?

[Nac Mac Feegle]

19. Can you imagine

What the nutcases on Alex Jones website and radio show are going to be saying????

The entertainment value should be pretty high. Anyone with half a brain listening for fun would probably hurt themselves severely from the laughing.

No drinking games!!!!! Alcohol poisoning is NOT a good way to die. Although taking a drink whenever something even marginally sane is said would leave you stone cold sober, so what's the point?

Safety First, people.

[Sunlei]

20. 2 billion dollar military blimp, plus now the damage it does AND hours of fighter jet time following

Two F-16 fighter jets were monitoring the blimp for hours.

[brooklynite]

21. The Eagle has landed...

Loose military blimp lands in Pennsylvania

A blimp associated with NORAD's surveillance of the East Coast that became untethered from its mooring in Maryland is now on the ground and authorities have it secured, Pennsylvania State Police told CNN.

The loose JLENS blimp had been in the air over Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, and caused power outages before it came down, Columbia County Department of Public Safety Director Fred Hunsinger said.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/28/politics/loose-blimp-norad-east-coast/index.html

[Sunlei]

22. It drifted 200 miles, we're lucky it didn't drag over very populated areas.

2 billion dollars our Military spends on this junk and they can't use extra tethers just in case one breaks.

[geek tragedy]

23. Trey Gowdy to subpoena Hillary over this nt

[Mendocino]

24. Rush Limbaugh can fly??!!!

I guess flying pigs are real.

[tabasco]

25. Was it Christie's National Guard appointee?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/inside-chris-christies-militia-flab-and-cronyism-trigger-mutiny-in-the-ranks/2015/09/21/1493ac4c-57bc-11e5-abe9-27d53f250b11_story.html

[Recursion]

26. I know this was dangerous and made a lot of people lose power, and is costing a lot of tax dollars

But something about this story still just makes me smile.

"Fly free, blimp! You're free!"