Lockheed Martin spy baloon "Aerostat" crashes into Sierra Vista, AZ neighborhood

I used to work this program...I hate Lockheed Martin! I'm glad their million dollar+ balloon crashed!!! HAHAHAHA!! I hope no one's house was damaged though.

on Lockheed

Lockheed Martin trains their new guys on the Aerostat in AZ before they ship off OCONUS. (I used to work that program)

Lockheed sucks...glad they lost a balloon!

Can you tell us what kind of packages and or sensors it carried?

Yeh, they either carried camera's or radar systems on board. Below is a link which has a little bit on info on it.

[link to www.lockheedmartin.com]

This is part of the Tethered Aerostat Radar System.
[link to www.globalsecurity.org]
"The Tethered Aerostat Radar System is a balloon-borne radar. The primary aerostat mission is to provide radar data in support of other federal agencies involved in the nation's drug interdiction program."

Sierra Vista, AZ is on the Mexican border.

300 airships and thousands of aerostats in support of military operations world-wide.
What military op is going on in AZ??

I just wonder how many ground clothes , tarp tents and other things
i could make out of that.

That page says my right click button has been disabled.

Nope, it's that damn BP oil spill's no fly zone that got him.

"It's a Flying Sauser, we don't have "spy balloons".

heavy wind storms blew it away a week or two ago.

that thing needed to land down here in Yuma, AZ. that thing would have been stripped in five minutes flat. then they would have patched it up and blown it up and tied it to something offering pics taken while sitting on the thing for $20 a pop. lol

I bet it was made in China.

What? You didn't get the memo? You know...where the USA is a police state.

'un'Patriot'ic' Act.
Naked Body Scanners.
Sexual assault err I mean Homeland Security Enhanced Pat Downs.
Treasury looting by Wall St Financial Terrorists.
No longer legal to resist illegal Cop entry into your home.
US Border Patrol Checkpoints no where near US borders.
No fly list morphing into no travel list where if you are on it there is no appeal mechanism to get off it and you lose the right to own guns.

Hmm Americana just like moms apple pie...right?

It is a sad state of affairs when one has to go to Russia to get news that is not propaganda.

If one came down in my 40 acres of bush I wouldn't tell them. I would just disable any transmitter on it so they couldn't find it.

What? You didn't get the memo? You know...where the USA is a police state.

'un'Patriot'ic' Act.
Naked Body Scanners.
Sexual assault err I mean Homeland Security Enhanced Pat Downs.
Treasury looting by Wall St Financial Terrorists.
No longer legal to resist illegal Cop entry into your home.
US Border Patrol Checkpoints no where near US borders.
No fly list morphing into no travel list where if you are on it there is no appeal mechanism to get off it and you lose the right to own guns.

Hmm Americana just like moms apple pie...right?

It is a sad state of affairs when one has to go to Russia to get news that is not propaganda.

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I'd sue.