NORAD blimp comes loose from tether - CNNPolitics.com
(CNN)A blimp-like aircraft associated with NORAD's surveillance of the East Coast has become untethered from is mooring in Maryland and it's now flying over Pennsylvania, according to NORAD spokesman Lt. Joe Mavrocki.
Two F-16s scrambled from the New Jersey National Guard are tracking the Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System aerostat -- or JLENS, a Pentagon official said.
The aerostat, which is roughly 243 feet long, came loose from its tethering in Maryland, outside Washington, D.C.
It's unclear what the current danger is to the public or how the blimp will be brought back down.
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