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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA 200 ft blimp trailing a 2 mile tether cable is loose in Pennsylvania.
It broke loose for the Aberdeen Proving Ground, in Maryland. Causing havoc on the ground right now.
MSNBC covering it live.
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A 200 ft blimp trailing a 2 mile tether cable is loose in Pennsylvania. (Original Post)
Stinky The Clown
Oct 2015
OP
UPDATE: PA State Police says #JLENS landed at 3:40 p.m. in PA. No injuries reported.
riversedge
Oct 2015
#18
A HERETIC I AM
(24,377 posts)1. Is the media in a panic because a little kid MIGHT be inside?
bullwinkle428
(20,630 posts)7. JESUS!! The very first reply in the thread steals my joke!
A HERETIC I AM
(24,377 posts)9. Sorry.
GMTA, eh?
Stinky The Clown
(67,818 posts)2. 24,000 currently without power due to the dragging tether cable.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)3. If it were over South Georgia, some redneck would've shot it down already.
Herman4747
(1,825 posts)8. LOL!!
malthaussen
(17,216 posts)12. You don't know Pennsyltucky very well, do ya?
Plenty of rednecks in this state.
-- Mal
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)4. Call 911 If You See This Huge-Ass Blimp on the Loose Today
Heres a metaphor: a remote-controlled, tremendously expensive, basically useless JLENS aerial surveillance blimp has detached from its tether at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. If you see it, call the authorities. Do NOT try to get it down yourself.
The $2.7 billion blimp program was the subject of a recent, withering profile in the Los Angeles Times that described as the quintessential runaway Pentagon project:
Seventeen years after its birth, JLENS is a stark example of what defense specialists call a zombie program: costly, ineffectual and seemingly impossible to kill.
Instead of detecting things like cruise missiles and terrorists, the sensor-laden airship basically doesnt do anything except burn tax dollars and look sort of cool floating in the air.
more
http://gawker.com/gigantic-unmanned-military-blimp-on-the-loose-outside-b-1739217483
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)24. Yet another DoD inspired program turns out to be a menace to the public.
They no doubt have a whole team of spin meisters working on
what they think might be the most plausible alibi for this.
Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)5. Raytheon is in trouble. nt
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)10. Hoping to cash in on the insurance policy for the blimp?
That might turn around their finances.
Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)13. LOL. Look, if I end up filing a claim...
They have way bigger problems since I'm in Colorado.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,377 posts)6. This is a clue something is happening
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)11. Another blimp is being launched to get the missing blimp
Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)14. DUZY.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)15. I thought Christie was in Boulder today…n/t
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)16. Did it get kicked out of the Acela Quiet Car?
n/t
riversedge
(70,299 posts)17. good photo and it rolls over the PA hills--and powrer lines....
Betty Retweeted
Ian Duncan ?@iduncan 44m44 minutes ago
Woman saw #JLENS balloon and snapped this pic said its cable is trailing through power lines. Her electric is out
riversedge
(70,299 posts)18. UPDATE: PA State Police says #JLENS landed at 3:40 p.m. in PA. No injuries reported.
AS I post this Brian Williams is going on and on--not reported.
DVIDS AssignmentDesk ?@DVIDS_Desk 5m5 minutes ago
UPDATE: PA State Police says #JLENS landed at 3:40 p.m. in PA. No injuries reported.
sarisataka
(18,770 posts)19. So the blimp
went limp?
malaise
(269,157 posts)22. Landed - asd in crashed
in two parts
underpants
(182,878 posts)20. I would have guessed that Limbaugh would be playing golf
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)21. They found it!
nilram
(2,893 posts)25. I knew it would blow over.
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)23. Obama is using it to take everyone's guns. Overheard that.