news after a military surveillance blimp designed to keep the nation s capital safe, took off on its own. tonight, the helium-filled blimp is on the ground in pennsylvania but it caused havoc from the heavens and became a social media sensation. here s chip reid. reporter: the unmanned blimp housing a state of the radar system. after a three-year test period it s 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 army s aberdeen proving ground in maryland. it drifted north through pennsylvania for hours trailed by two f-16ss 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 g
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tonight, the helium-filled blimp is on the ground in pennsylvania but it caused havoc from the heavens and became a social media sensation. here s chip reid.. reporter: the unmanned blimp housing a state of the radar system. after a three-year test period it s 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 army s aberdeen proving ground in maryland. it drifted north through pennsylvania for hours trailed by two f-16ss 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 r