From: "Geo." 

http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=15095

GOVERNMENT ORDERS SPY BLIMP
Friday, June 16, 2006 - FreeMarketNews.com

The government has hired defense subcontractor Lockheed Martin to design
and develop an enormous blimp that will be used to spy on Americans,
according to the Athens News. Government agencies such as the NSA are
anticipating that as early as 2009 the blimp will be operational and begin
supporting new ways of monitoring everything that happens in the country.

A prototype of the blimp is already being developed at a cost of $40
million. The spy ship, called the High Altitude Airship, will be seventeen
times larger than the Goodyear Blimp and hover 12 miles above the ground.
Although it is very large it will be invisible to both the naked eye and
ground radar because of its distance from the earth. Fuel economic and self
sufficient, it will be powered by solar energy and will be able to fly for
years at a time.

The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command has already conducted a
study to determine some of the uses of the spy ship. It has the capability
of monitoring an area 600 miles in diameter at a time with surveillance
equipment, such as high-resolution cameras. The government has ordered 11
of them - enough to monitor every parcel of land in the U.S.

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