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Tethered Aerostat Radar Balloon on Hwy 90
Posted on 12/27/17 at 6:02 pm
Posted on 12/27/17 at 6:02 pm
Anyone else remember this thing? It was south of Hwy 90 between Jeanerette and Baldwin. It's been gone many years now I guess. Maybe a victim if the 2005 hurricanes. Did anyone ever work the site? Thing always looked odd flying out in the middle of sugar cane fields.
This post was edited on 12/27/17 at 6:06 pm
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Posted on 12/27/17 at 6:03 pm to redstick13
Posted on 12/27/17 at 6:07 pm to redstick13
It was releasing chemicals in an experiment to control us
Drive through Jeanerette and you will see that it worked
Drive through Jeanerette and you will see that it worked
Posted on 12/27/17 at 6:08 pm to Jim Rockford
The cable wasn't that easy to see. I wonder how many UFO calls were made over it.
Posted on 12/27/17 at 6:15 pm to redstick13
Used for drug interdiction?
Posted on 12/27/17 at 6:22 pm to White Roach
Yes seems it was the main purpose. The site actually looks like the USS enterprise from Google Earth view. 
This post was edited on 12/27/17 at 6:34 pm
Posted on 12/27/17 at 6:26 pm to redstick13
Still one between Marfa and Valentine TX.
Posted on 12/27/17 at 6:29 pm to Lefty Diego
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Still one between Marfa and Valentine TX.
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Operational Sites: Yuma and Fort Huachuca, Ariz.; Deming, N.M.; Marfa, Eagle Pass, and Rio Grande City, Texas; Cudjoe Key, Fla.; and Lajas, Puerto Rico. Sites located at Morgan City, La., and Matagorda, Texas, are in a cold-storage configuration.
Posted on 12/27/17 at 6:55 pm to redstick13
They were probably able to shut down Morgan City after Barry Seal went out of business.
Posted on 12/27/17 at 6:58 pm to White Roach
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They were probably able to shut down Morgan City after Barry Seal went out of business.
I started to say the same thing.
Posted on 12/27/17 at 6:59 pm to redstick13
Yes, I used to be able to see it from my backyard.
Posted on 12/27/17 at 7:06 pm to redstick13
Man, that is fascinating...I used to see it, but never had any idea what it was. 
Posted on 12/27/17 at 7:08 pm to redstick13
That ballon was operational from 1992 - 2002.
Posted on 12/27/17 at 7:11 pm to NewIberiaHaircut
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Yes, I used to be able to see it from my backyard.
Any idea what they're doing with the old site now?
Posted on 12/27/17 at 7:12 pm to Bigfishchoupique
The ballon had a diesel generator and 100 gallons of fuel. Could run for 4 days (100 hours ). Probaly a 12 kw or so. Gen set and radar weighed about 2000 pounds.
Posted on 12/27/17 at 7:12 pm to redstick13
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The cable wasn't that easy to see. I wonder how many UFO calls were made over it.
The cable was capable of going up to at least 18,000 feet and maybe 22,000 feet on some of them. They were marked on aviation charts, but there was no warning lights or beacon on the them. The cable on one of them in the Florida Keys took out a Cessna.
Posted on 12/27/17 at 7:15 pm to redstick13
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Fort Huachuca, Ariz
I was quite close to this site on one strange Spring day - a lifetime ago.
Posted on 12/27/17 at 7:16 pm to redstick13
There’s a 355 page PDF file of a study about returning the site to the landowner. Trying to figure how to link it.
Posted on 12/27/17 at 7:16 pm to White Roach
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Used for drug interdiction?
All of them but one were for downward looking radar to spot low flying planes coming in over the Gulf of Mexico and the western border area. One of the two in the Florida Keys is used for TV broadcasting beamed at Cuba, Anti Castro, communism type stuff probably funded by the CIA.
Posted on 12/27/17 at 7:16 pm to EA6B
One broke away several years ago up in the NE. VA I think. Was supposed to be “impossible” for it to get loose. Thing was drifting along dragging the cable and tore up all kinds of private property and power lines. A resourceful Sheriffs Deputy got up on the side of a big hill and when the balloon drifted by he shot it down with a shotgun. That has to be a hell of a story to tell at the bar. “So there was this giant balloon...”
LINK to incident. The article only says they don’t know how it came back down but some people I talked to that lived up there said it was shot down. I guess that would fit the DoD explanation of it “running out of helium.”
LINK to incident. The article only says they don’t know how it came back down but some people I talked to that lived up there said it was shot down. I guess that would fit the DoD explanation of it “running out of helium.”
This post was edited on 12/27/17 at 7:21 pm
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