News after a military surveillance blimp designed to keep the Nations Capital safe, took off on its own. Tonight, the heliumfilled blimp is on the ground in pennsylvania but it caused havoc from the heavens and became a social media sensation. Heres chip reid. Reporter the unmanned blimp housing a state of the radar system. After a threeyear test period its supposed to track the skies over the atlantic for incoming cruise missiles. Today what was being tracked was the blimp itself. Around 12 20 p. M. Ist somehow detached from its mooring at the armys Aberdeen Proving Ground in maryland. It drifted north through pennsylvania for hours trailed by two f16ss while military minds tried to figure on the a way to bring it down. It finally deflated deflated and landed in a wooded area in montour county, pennsylvania, in two parts, first the tail section then the rest of it. The blimp is massive, more than 230 feet long and flew with thousands of feet of its steel along the ground, knocking do
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Tonight, the heliumfilled blimp is on the ground in pennsylvania but it caused havoc from the heavens and became a social media sensation. Heres chip reid. Reporter the unmanned blimp housing a state of the radar system. After a threeyear test period its supposed to track the skies over the atlantic for incoming cruise missiles. Today what was being traraed was the blblp itself. Around 12 20 p. M. Ist somehow detached from its mooring at the armys Aberdeen Proving Ground in maryland. It drifted north through pennsylvania for hours trailed by two f16ss whileilitary minds tried to figure on the a way to bring it down. It finally deflated deflated and landed in a wooded area in montour county, pennsylvania, in two parts, first the tail section then the rest of it. The blimp is massive, more than 230 feet long and flew with thousands of feet of its steel tether dangling below, drag along the ground, knocking do power lines and cause tens of thousands of outages. It was rainy and wind nemar
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