We noticed a white object hovering high above Sierra Vista as we approached from the north on Tuesday afternoon. I spotted it when we were 20 miles or more away. As we got closer, it became obvious that it was a tethered blimp, but it seemed to be impossibly high.
Through conversations with locals and online research, I learned it’s a tethered aerostat radar system flying about 10-12,000 feet above Fort Huachuca. It is about twice the size of the Goodyear blimps and is a platform for radar to detect illicit drug smuggling by air from Mexico. You can read all about the program here.
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I heard an unusual noise this morning and guessed that it was a slow moving bi-plane, looked out the window and saw the Goodyear blimp flying low nearby. I'm trying to picture one twice as big.
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