Okay, the title’s a bit of an exaggeration, but a very large military aerostat broke loose from Aberdeen Proving Grounds and is currently floating over Pennsylvania at the mercy of the wind. It’s reported as being at 16,000 feet and it’s dragging a 2 mile long mooring cable.
Fortunately it’s high enough that the cable isn’t on the ground. Imagine if it was a mile up with a mile of heavy metal cable dragging along the ground!
ETA: It’s being reported now that it’s descending over Columbia County PA, possibly because fighter jets punctured it somehow.
You know, ever since they put those blimps up, I’ve wondered, off and on, what would happen if one of them got loose. But I always told myself the top-notch engineering minds of the U.S. Dept. of Defense had to have thought of that and put some sort of systems in place to keep it from happening.