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2011-05-10 Science & Technology

USAF Aerostat deflates, falls into Sierra Vista neighborhoods

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Posted by Anonymoose 2011-05-10 13:51|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 I lived there in the early 80's when the aerostat was first introduced as the ultimate cure for the flagging drug war. A newspaper friend of mine (who has since won a Pulitzer) was invited to the unveiling: he was shown live video shots from the aerostat following a truck/drug convoy from Hermosillo to the border. U.S. forces then seized the cargo. Nice dog and pony show story...but as an answer to smuggling the aerostat has not lived up to its initial billing.

p.s. Then I moved to the artist-colony town of Bisbee - discovering it to be a place where people went to bars to sober up from their yayo. Thirty miles away but in the Twilight Zone.
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Posted by borgboy 2011-05-10 14:21|| 2011-05-10 14:21|| Front Page Top

#2 D *** NG IT, DATS WHAT THE US MIL SAID AT ROSWELL!

hehe.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-05-10 20:36|| 2011-05-10 20:36|| Front Page Top

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