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F-16s Scrambled To Track Down NORAD Surveillance Blimp Which Is Loose Somewhere Over Pennsylvania
While the world was focused on just what excuse Yellen will come up with not to hike rates after 7 consecutive years of ZIRP, and how many new "mandates" the Fed would come up with to justify its now traditional lack of action, moments ago a far more unexpected development took place when a 243-foot blimp used by NORAD in its surveillance of the east coast has become untethered from its mooring in Maryland and it's now flying somewhere over Pennsylvania, according to NORAD spokesman Lt. Joe Mavrocki.
The blimp from @USAGAPG has come off its tether. If you see it on the ground, call 911. Here's what it looks like. pic.twitter.com/mRHhpJdfHU
— Joppa-Magnolia VFC (@jmvfc8) October 28, 2015
The airship broke free around 11:45 a.m. Wednesday and has approximately 6,700 feet of tether attached to it.
DefenseOne adds that the Air Force has scrambled two F-16s from the Atlantic City Air National Guard base to track the blimp, which officials say is holding at 16,000 feet.
The blimp, which is also known as a Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System aerostat or JLENS, broke free at 12:20 eastern time. “NORAD officials are working closely with the FAA to ensure air traffic safety, as well as with our other interagency partners to address the safe recovery of the aerostat,” NORAD said in a statement.
The aircraft is part of a Pentagon plan to create a net to hunt enemy drones and cruise missiles along the Eastern seaboard of the United States. The Pentagon has spent $2.55 billion on the program.
The helium-filled airship, or aerostat, is intended to provide early detection of cruise missiles over a large swath of the East Coast, from Norfolk, Virginia, to upstate New York, during a three-year test, according to military officials.
In other words, if any sworn U.S. enemies wish to launch an ICBM attack on the east coast, now is your chance.
According to WFMZ, there are reports of the blimp being over the area of Berks and Lancaster counties.
"People are warned to keep a safe distance from the airship and tether as contract with them may present significant danger," The Aberdeen Proving Ground said in a statement.
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf issued the following statement: “The governor's office is in communication with the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency, the Pennsylvania State Police, the National Guard, and the appropriate authorities with the federal government. We are closely monitoring the situation, and we will work with the appropriate authorities to respond to any resource requests and assist in any way possible."
Some more details on the program:
The much-maligned Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated netted Sensor System, or JLENS, is not technically a blimp because it it has no propulsion, rather it is a tethered aerostat. Similar but smaller aircraft have been used for overwatch surveillance to protect U.S. bases overseas for years, including in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The JLENS has been in testing since 2009. Raytheon, the manufacturer, has billed the JLENS program as a meant to detect missile and large drones via radar. Raytheon demonstrated that the X-band radar could pick up multiple ballistic missiles back in 2012. The JLENS’s ability to track other other objects like drones is much less clear.
Any readers who spot the blimp are kindly requested to call 911.
And here are updates on its current whereabouts:
BREAKING NEWS: The blimp has been spotted over Bloomsburg, PA. (@JonMeyerWNEP) https://t.co/D36Qx21K9I pic.twitter.com/Phr8LnR1M0
— Breaking News Feed (@PzFeed) October 28, 2015
@CrossingBroad RT @NewsOnTheMin: VIDEO: Army surveillance blimp that's broken from tether Landed in bloomsburg pic.twitter.com/iZtXD99Brz
— Wags (@wagssid) October 28, 2015
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It's good to know we can promptly scramble fighter jets to investigate any off-course aircraft. It's a foolproof system!
It has the hots for the Goodyear blimp, searching for her now.
Rush: Republican leadership prefers Hillary over Cruz!http://tinyurl.com/p78pxw8
Relax. Just another of Tyler's sightings of the Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System omen.
Market is sure to close green.
Musical inter lewd:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpA4XpnnI_U
Just call the Rooskies and ask for help. They can probably shoot the Blimp down from the Caspian Sea. ;-)
Looney
The IRONY of it all.
Searching for a Surveillance Blimp
"In other words, if any sworn U.S. enemies wish to launch an ICBM attack on the east coast, now is your chance."
They might want to get it back before the Chinese missile frigates drop anchor in Florida in a couple of days...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-23/three-chinese-warships-dock-flo...
Oh, my God, I see it! I see it!
(PA resident not far from there)
Does the use of supersonic F-16s seem a tad excessive to follow a blimp that is floating along at maybe 10 MPH?
Would a helicopter or a single-engine CIA prop plane not be a bit more appropriate?
Depends on how much anthrax is on board...
Boris is prefer Megadeth.
Sepultura.
Iron Maiden - Run to the hills!
Hopefully, a Raytheon spokesperson will be able to heal the public relations damage and the researchers can get on with their studies of this important complement to the defense of the Homeland.
Oh...the inhumanity!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQVLsvZcr34
Bob Sinclar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0NSeysrDYw
Well, in today's climate of fear, "peace" is certainly not selling, 'cause no-one's buying!!
Someone please tell the now blinded sailors sitting in the now useless Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyer docked in the Delaware River Valley that they can take the rest of the day off.
http://www.amazon.com/Perseid-Collapse-Post-Apocalyptic-Series-ebook/dp/...
Exactly what I was thinking. Let's spend a couple of million dollars, to send a couple of multi million dollar planes to do something that a cheap Cesna using about a hundred bucks of fuel could do better. Guess it's a chance for them to use their shiny toys.
Morons!!!
Military is just another gubmint jawbz program.
You expect common sense NoDebt? Have you been drinking today? :-)
If it lands in my backyard can I keep it?
Salvage rights! "Briefly"
No drinking yet, unfortunately. This would be more fun with drinking.
Like the day my buddies and I were all drinking heavily while watching OJ Simpson and Al Cowlings in the white Bronco doing the slow speeed chase in front of about a million police cars. I don't think any of us have ever laughed that hard for that long or ever will again. Captain Janks calling in live on the air was the topper.
I'll have a double for you then sir. I feel it's my duty.
That was one of the funnest TV days I've ever had! It was so surreal!
"I see da OJ, and he looks scared man!"
"If it lands in my backyard can I keep it?"
ONLY if you're very fast with the painting of a good clown face on it!
If the govamint shows up and says it's theirs, just tell them it's not a blimp at all. It's an old campaign poster of Obozo the Clown from the last Presidential election that Hillary was thinking of using for her campaign due to the astonishing likeness of herself.
More appropriate, but not as much fun.
NORAD needs to tweak it's "Santa Claus Tracker", so we can all watch it on TV.
It was headed straight for WTC 2.0
Yeah, I just read a post by Ken that talked about that...here, I'll link it and save you some red arrows (the part about the missle ships is near the bottom):
http://redefininggod.com/2015/10/globalist-agenda-watch-2015-update-78-t...
lol
Bloomsburg, PA: Overcast, rain in the next hours. Any conspiracy theories?
It contains all the DOD accounting files.
It's also one testicle short of a giant white flying penis...
Lemme see... So it's been endorsed by Caitlyn and supported by Barry.
In that case can we name it "Barry the One-Balled blimp"?
I was gonna say "that's some ballsack"!
It has two. One undescended named Ashton.
Guccifer did say a PA city would be nuked in 2015....
Lindsay Graham called for Charleston...
Blimps would be great replacements for light commuter trains that many cities have
They're cruising speed is much higher then cars, they can travel in a straight line, and to overcome high-winds they could be attached to the ground with a pulley system - which is much cheaper than building train tracks + infrastructure.
Whichever city tries out blimps for mass transit will be very very lucky.
HAARP, or is it HAAAARP - let me check Rense.com
In the movie Remo Williams, the enemy organization had HARP, "High Altitude Reconnaisance Probe".
...and it moves like a pregnant yak
Was the new World Trade Center designed to withstand a blimp attack? If so, would the building collapse at near free-fall speed into a cloud of dust and molten steel?
Not saying that anything like that could actually happen, but you never know.
If it hits the spire it could cause the blimp to explode and then anything is possible as NIST can tell you...
The JLENS is an aerostat, the "main component [of which] is one or more gasbags" — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerostat
Must be a congressional transport of some kind. Maybe Boner's in there.
The top of the Empre State Building was originally designed to be a mooring point for blimps (Zeppelins). Maybe it's headed there?
LMAO.
Also the fact that it has a big chode. I think that's its nickname: The Chode Blimp.
Could they not use one of the spy satellites to find the surveillance blimp?
...or are the satellites all busy looking for
the Russian army in Ukraine??
Worst Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System omen since Lehman.
I spotted it with my telescope from Dallas! It has some writing on the side. On sec.. It says "Fuck you, America!"
Hmm, that seems odd.
The Macy's Day Parade Srikes Again.
Coincidentally I watched The Hindenburg last night.
At least it's not a swarm of floating explosive condoms.
A giant governmental suppository heading to D.C. in search of the King A$$hole...
it worked on 9-11 when Cheney gave the order "not" to scramble at 9:33 am - twice in 30 minutes - according to Mineta secretary of transportation
Quick! While the military is distracted!
Time for another false flag!
"We woulda stopped it, honest... but all our assets were out chasing a balloon"
...
"I swear, it's like I work with toddlers..."
THey can scramble jets for a fucking blimp but not when aircraft goes of course like during 9/11, not religious but I hope there is a hell so all these fuckers from Bush to Obama to Cheney and every other corrupt politican and bankster in between can burnnnn
Maybe 19 cave dwelling terrorists are planning on floating it into a building. At least there should be plenty of time to react.
Blimp has a Flight 93 moment.
"All we could find was this patch of material."
"That looks like a deflated balloon."
"No, you're not looking at it right."
according to CBS "news" this thing cost Joe Idiot taxpayer a couple billion dollars... lol
I think we are good, unless that thing contains the Locknar, in which case we are all screwed.
Plenty of time...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLlUgilKqms
Government is involved. I'll take the other side of that bet.
Nothing out my window.
zepplin
Over the Hills and Far Away.
Achilles last stand
Obama and his team are combing the skies ... "we ain't found shit"
any Spaceballs reference gets an immediate 'up vote.'
Agreed.
Nobody is mentioning Target Practice... I'm Disappointed
You've lost another nuclear submarine Vasili?
F16's? Really? Are they planning on retrieving it or shooting it down? For goodness sakes, why can't our land based radar systems pick up a freaking blimp floating over PA?
Maybe it's flying over Shankstown.
It's a Stealth Blimp. It wouldn't even be able to fly if 10 computers weren't constantly making minute adjustments to it's control surfaces.
Quiet serf! You're not supposed to think for yourself, just do what we tell you.
Why hasn't it already been spotted by commercial pilots?
Weird.
Looks like some civilians spotted it and filmed it already. Shaky video reminds me of the film of the Hairy Man or Big Foot or whatever he's called out in the woods.
That was just my Uncle Bob.
Can't have the proles harvesting the elctronic goodies on board! Then they'd know it's real purpose.
don't worry if it heads anywhere near the Pentagram, they will surely shoot it down... right?
part of a 2.5BB plan and it has no secondardy controls? $2.499,999,999 blimp, $1 anchor.
That, or the kite string broke.
maybe it will disappear and land on some drunk Nascar fans ...Black Sunday II
It was the ghost of Slim Pickens.
I have a windowed office here in Pittsburgh. I'll alert the media if I see anything big and funny-looking flying above us.
Twenty miles north. No visible bogies but visibility limited.
”Around the World in 69 Days”
Is that a Ron Paul sticker on that blimp
Who is Ron Paul?
PS -- For the downvoters, "Who is Ron Paul?" is what was written on the side of the Ron Paul blimp back in 2008. It's a play on "Who is John Galt?"
http://www.libertymaven.com/wp-content/uploads/bostonwhois.jpg
If anybody can get hold of that tether make sure to tie it securely to the nearest cop car.
Last seen being towed away by a Toyota.
Call Gordon Duff, he'll get right on it..... hahahaha
how could it propse a potential hazard besides static? oh, do you mean the radiological equipment, emp device? or just trying to scare people away from the tech?
If you touch our shit, we'll shoot you.
Is it dragging that tether line?
F-16s scrambled to save us from a fucking balloon full of hot air while they were ordered to "stand down" during an attack that killed nearly 3000 people. How does that Dick ya?
Bruce Willis a.k.a. John McClane needs to jump on the moving rope, shoot some terrorists, and guide it safely to the ground
So they scrable, Jets to track down a balloon, that is designed to track other things? alrightythen.
Just hook it up to the tow ball mount in back I presume. Shouldn't be a problem, looks pretty light.
You all think wire taps are bad. This bad mother can spy on anyone and anything in a 350 mile radius! From Carolina to Canada and out to sea. That is big brother personified floating over the Pa countryside. I am now officially creeped out by the surveillance state!
Blimp comes untethered from it's moorings.
USSA comes untethered from it's moorings....
The blimp is loaded with Hillary's E-Mails...
You mean it's filed with Hillary's empty promises and mouthpieces...
Is that a radome on your belly are you just happy to see me, big boy?
If it lands in my yard, I'm keepin it.
It will be a 5 star Grand Theft Auto event in the neighborhood where that bitch lands. Black cars, black helicopters and armored dead-eyed killers will descend on the area like a swarm of locusts.
$2.5B says you've got that right...
This sell off in gold is total bullshit, they knew they were not raising rates, this was a much planned event for sure as nthing has changed...
NORADs of unusual size?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCyIQqujm8c
I don't believe they exist.
I no longer believe in accidents.
There is no such thing as an accident. Nor are there coincidences.
Guess they need to get it before it floats into Canada. Abu Trudeau may not agree to give it back.
I spot this every morning outside my window. Now there's two! (minus one) Freedoom balloons
I think it must be NASA'S newest space ship.
Float away
you no stay
balloon.
Well, if they can't get it back down, have someone parachute onto it and paint a Nike swoosh
Paul Eberhart sleeps good at night knowing he is well protected by our government
HEADLINE: JETS SCRAMBLED TO INTERCEPT FAT WHITE BLIMP ON THE LOOSE
Panic ensues at Walmart
Weight Watcher's stock might plummet if it said fat black blimp.
Maybe I shouldn't be reading comments while I'm driving. You made me laugh so hard I almost wrecked.
Tom Wolf's response. "If it moves I'll tax it"
PA GOP response: Can we put all of our debt in that thing? With room to grow?
Project Mayhem? Lets hope so....
Secret mission to survey for golf courses Barry has missed
Whale sack. Don't look kids.
Looks like buying mooring shackles from China was maybe not the best ROI for an unGodly expensive blimp full of Top Secret technology that once it floats into international airspace is free pickings. The F-16s are to make sure it does not drift offshore.
I hope it doesn't land in Russia
Target pracice time. F16's target time?
If it's over your property, fair game to take your high powered rifle and take a shot at it. Someone ends up with a deflated blimp over their house.
Could cause problems over an airport.
$180 million and no one thought to include a remote control to let the helium out?
Not paid to think.
There will be an app for that by the end of the week. They'll sell it to DOD for $50M.
Maybe that blimp contains the limited intelligence of western leaders and in their dullness realized they lost it.
Raytheon says you can't shoot it down - it's built to withstand enemy fire.
How about Domestic fire?
Rather than destabilizing countries around the world, perhaps the US Military might better spend their time evaluating core competencies.
So to protect the USA from enemy missles, drones and ICBMs, we use some balloons from the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade and we can't even tie them up correctly? Makes the TSA look like pros.
Raytheon likes it alot. Main problem is that if it does identify incoming ballistic milssiles there's nothing we can do about it except give a few seconds notice.
This has been up for half an hour and no on has quoted: "Oh the humanity!"
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."
Just the end: https://youtu.be/4FXSnoy71Q4
Longer: https://youtu.be/PeCGURWzjwE
No NORAD for the East Coast, just like 911.
Dont worry they're super dupper at there jobs. They just need more money to run a few war games to give you that maximum protection.
Like they did the one time they were needed but were in on it through infiltration... oy vey oops
They must be good since they still haven't figured that out or haven't had the balls to frag the infiltrators.
I saw this thing over Orange County, CA. There had to be at least 10 of them and they were in formation.
Wait, I heard they were black triangles over Hwy 101. It was all over Coast to Coast radio show.
ever wonder what those cost?
I saw this thing over Orange County, CA. There had to be at least 10 of them and they were in formation.
said to some norad flunkie. "do not let go of the string, i'll be right back, I have to go pee."
Why don't they send in the drones?
It's the latest version of the F-35 except it's faster, more maneuverable and a little cheaper to produce.
After those F-16s find it, what're they gonna DO with it? They can't herd it back to its pen, they can't shoot it down it would probably land on a hospital or a wedding or something and kill a bunch of innocent civilians. Yeah, they'll probably shoot it down after all you have to expect a certain amount of collateral damage.
I've always hated seeing that thing as I drove to Baltimore.
Who wants to bet that it doesn't track missiles at all?
My bet is that it intercepts cellular transmissions for the NSA.