NORAD 'blimp' comes loose from tether

A blimp associated with NORAD's surveillance of the East Coast has become untethered from is mooring in Maryland and it's now flying over Pennsylvania, according to NORAD spokesman Lt. Joe Mavrocki.

It's unclear what the current danger is to the public or how the blimp will be brought back down.

NORAD 'blimp' comes loose from tether

Two F-16s scrambled from the New Jersey National Guard are tracking the blimp, a Pentagon official said.

So will they shoot it down because of civil aircraft danger
Should Canada shoot it down if it come over the border ?????
Or will this add to the UFO picture album lol

I was posting this as you were, apparently. You beat me to it! I've posted there asking the mods to close it.

I'll copy and paste what I said there:

I spent a few years in another town next to a base with a very similar blimp. Took a field trip to it once and we got to see the operations, especially raising the blimp early in the morning and attaching the mooring to it. How badly does someone have to mess up to accomplish losing it? Very badly.

Last I heard, they've scrambled a few F-16's to take this thing down somewhere safe.

a reply to: Trillium
This happened years ago to the blimp in the Florida Keys. It was en route to Cuba so they scrambled some Navy fighter jets to shoot it down.

Nice....$180 Million in taxpayer dollars shot down....

Ridiculous....way to go US government! Blow through that money and have no backup plan for something that breaks free to bring it down without shooting it down....brilliant!

originally posted by: jrod
a reply to: Trillium
This happened years ago to the blimp in the Florida Keys. It was en route to Cuba so they scrambled some Navy fighter jets to shoot it down.

They are not saying how high it is or if it going up or down ??????

Does anybody have a view off this thing

originally posted by: Trillium

originally posted by: jrod
a reply to: Trillium
This happened years ago to the blimp in the Florida Keys. It was en route to Cuba so they scrambled some Navy fighter jets to shoot it down.

They are not saying how high it is or if it going up or down ??????

Does anybody have a view off this thing

Story I read said it was at 16000 feet right now.

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originally posted by: Vasa Croe

originally posted by: Trillium

originally posted by: jrod
a reply to: Trillium
This happened years ago to the blimp in the Florida Keys. It was en route to Cuba so they scrambled some Navy fighter jets to shoot it down.

They are not saying how high it is or if it going up or down ??????

Does anybody have a view off this thing

two fighter jets traveling over Pennsylvania at 16,000 feet are tracking it

Ok Pennsylvania any there can see it yet.
Said something about having to shoot it down once it over the Atlantic or maritime


Story I read said it was at 16000 feet right now.

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I'm speculating that the U.S. Air Force will have to shoot down the runaway blimp with an air to air missile. I live on the outskirts of Baltimore, Maryland --- and the two blimps tethered high in the air --- posed an intriguing sight indeed. Though last week...the military at Aberdeen Proving Ground, seemed to have raised the two blimps much higher in altitude.

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Power outages? Very curious...

Was at 16,000 but going down slowly and the tether line is causing power line outage

Now that be a sight to see

a reply to: Trillium

and the tether line is causing power line outage

a reply to: UberL33t

Ohhhhh...makes sense.

originally posted by: UberL33t
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Power outages? Very curious...

Thank look awesome

Man that going to cost a lot off money to repair all the outage this is causing

originally posted by: Trillium

originally posted by: UberL33t
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Power outages? Very curious...

Thank look awesome

Man that going to cost a lot off money to repair all the outage this is causing

And likely all at the taxpayers cost.....I feel like when things like this happen we should be able to take a tax deduction for the year....ridiculous.

Say-
what are the elements within this blimp that makes it go skyward?

how blimps work

I guess 16000 feet above any populace is safe enough to ignite?
(evil-over-lord---themesong)
I'll twiddle my thumbs until it's two or three hundred feet above "the metropolis my co-planners agree on".

I'd think the story would go more like...coming from mighty and powerful norad-our protector.
A destroyed blimp that became severed from it's tether was targeted for destruction high above the city this morning before it could descend as an incendiary, waking people Hindenburg-style.

originally posted by: Vasa Croe

originally posted by: Trillium

originally posted by: UberL33t
Here's some Pics...

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Power outages? Very curious...

Thank look awesome

Man that going to cost a lot off money to repair all the outage this is causing

And likely all at the taxpayers cost.....I feel like when things like this happen we should be able to take a tax deduction for the year....ridiculous.

Well just hope somebody going to get there walking paper
Guess you can't get fired in the army lol

a reply to: Vasa Croe

ya know...accidents happen. Its a freaking blimp dude, get over it.

Now saying over 20,000 are out of power so far

This not over by a long shot lot of possibility still

originally posted by: Trillium
Now saying over 20,000 are out of power so far

This not over by a long shot lot of possibility still

and guard rails,and blowing up transformers, that's crazy

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tether line damage

Secured in Pennsylvania.