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UPDATE: There’s a Giant Spy Blimp On The Loose Over Pennsylvania

By Kyle Scott

Published: Oct 28th, 2015 · 2:47 PM EDT

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We interrupt your terribly slow sports day to bring you this: A giant military blimp, reportedly worth more than $1 billion, used for surveillance, and which can be tethered to hover up to two miles high, has broken loose in Maryland and is currently floating over Pennsylvania and being tailed by two F-16 fighter jets out of Atlantic City. It is trailing at least 6,700 feet of cable, according to reports, and said to be floating, aimlessly, at around 16,000 feet. But, um, this photo from the Bloomsburg Penn State Campus Weather service makes it seem… lower:

So, ah, what happens when the cable is longer than the blimp is high?

UPDATE: The blimp has landed:

There are reports of power outages as it may have hit some lines or a power station.

UPDATE 2: The blimp may not have landed, but it’s close to the ground and the cable is knocking out power lines.

UPDATE 3: Blimp down.

UPDATE 4: Maybe. Conflicting reports. May still be dragging cable along ground in central PA.