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El Toro · Oct 28, 2015

A military blimp anchored over Aberdeen Proving Ground MD broke free heading toward PA. Hal

dr sportster · Oct 28, 2015

So nobody is at the controls?

El Toro · Oct 28, 2015

No one at the controls. I retired from APG in 1989 after 38 years. Two of those years were spent in the Army during the Korean War. Hal

Rollie NE PA · Oct 28, 2015

The last news report put it about 15 air miles from me. I live in North East PA. Twenty thousand people in Bloomsburg PA are without power because of it. I called my daughter to warn her because she lives very close to a 88 wind turbine farm high on a mountain.

John M · Oct 28, 2015

Its on the ground.

gtractorfan · Oct 28, 2015

News right now doesn't say it's on the ground however they say it's dragging a mile long 1" diameter tether line that is shorting out power lines. So why can't they drive a dozer over the line and stop it?

rbhuntn · Oct 28, 2015

(quoted from post at 12:53:16 10/28/15) News right now doesn't say it's on the ground however they say it's dragging a mile long 1" diameter tether line that is shorting out power lines. So why can't they drive a dozer over the line and stop it?

Because that would make to much sense. This is the government dealing this after all.

Rollie NE PA · Oct 28, 2015

The blimp is on the ground in Montour County, PA

RLA · Oct 28, 2015

Thats Shocking!!!!

donjr · Oct 28, 2015

That big balloon has cost us about $1 billion dollars so far. The idjits have sold the army on the early warning facit of the technology. It will warn them of incoming at 350 miles out. Just about enough time for the DC crowd to pile into their bunkers and hide. And, it won't work in bad weather or high winds. They have to take it down so they won't lose it.......

Steve in VA · Oct 28, 2015

I was stunned to learn from the media that the blimp was filled with flammable helium. Looks like we need to rewrite the rules of chemistry and physics.

Fatjay · Oct 28, 2015

I just heard that "helium with flammable qualities". That's CNN for you.

JF in MI · Oct 28, 2015

Could you just see that? Getting tangled in a wind turbine.

TomH in PA · Oct 28, 2015

Along with the flammable helium reports, the media doesn't seem to understand the difference between a blimp and a balloon. This was unpowered, just a tethered balloon the became untethered.

Mark - IN. · Oct 28, 2015

If that was British Petroleum that owned that balloon dragging that cable across the countryside knocking out power all over the place, someone would be out in the white house rose garden blasting them and demanding a beer summit for them acting stupidly and demanding that they accept responsibility.

Mark

gbs · Oct 28, 2015

the ones explaining the helium are the same bunch that have to dissect and explain every political matter so we can understand it, what's the tether cable made of

donjr · Oct 28, 2015

According to an army occifer on the news, it's a kevlar-steel cable that would stand 100+ mph winds and never break. The winds today were about 16 mph......

CCer · Oct 28, 2015

Now that they "caught" it, will they hook it to a chopper and tow it home? Inquiring minds want to know.

ScoutB · Oct 28, 2015

From the debate tonight:

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee made reference to the JLENS blimp that cut loose from its mooring at Aberdeen Proving Ground on Wednesday, comparing the military surveillance balloon to the government at large.

“The blimp is a perfect example of government,” Huckabee said. “Basically a bag of gas. Cut loose and destroyed everything in its path…that is our government today. We saw it in the blimp.”

Yup.

Mike M · Oct 29, 2015

I saw that debate. Huckabee had me laughing out loud !!!!

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