Fighter Jets Track Military Blimp Drifting Over Pennsylvania

North American Aerospace Defense Command officials tell NBC News that an unmanned Army surveillance blimp that tore loose from its ground tether in Maryland and drifted north is now 16,000 feet over Wilmington, Pennsylvania. Two F-16 fighter jets, scrambled from Atlantic City, New Jersey, are tracking the blimp's course.

The officials say that, as of now, the blimp, which is two football fields long and is trailing more than a mile of heavy cable, is holding at a steady altitude and course and presents no imminent threat to any populated areas.
NORAD is working closely with the Federal Aviation Administration to keep commercial airlines informed of the blimp's location to avoid any close calls. Ground controllers at Aberdeen Proving Ground, where the blimp broke free of its mooring, do have the ability to deflate the helium-filled blimp, which could then slowly — and presumably safely — descend to the ground.
We can't imagine what will be going on in peoples mind in Pennsylvania.....

Source: NBC News