Border control blimp carried more than 600 miles by winds before crashing in a Dallas suburb - The giant surveillance balloon ...

Strong winds from a recent storm in the south sent a US Customs and Border Protection surveillance blimp flying nearly 600 miles across Texas. The blimp – resembling a while-hot air balloon ...

HUNT COUNTY, Texas — Strong winds swept through Texas over the last few days, causing damage and, in one case, sending a blimp hundreds of miles across the state. A tethered aerostat system ...

SOUTH PADRE ISLAND — U.S. Customs and Border Protection has found its lost surveillance blimp, Argos, which broke free from its South Padre Island site Monday. The craft ended up tangled in ...

The CBP asked people to report any sightings of the system “that looks like a white blimp.” It reappeared about 15 hours later and about 500 miles away. NBC Dallas-Fort Worth was there when ...

According to the federal agency in 2016, the U.S. government deployed eight blimps along the southern U.S. border from Yuma, Arizona, to Lajas, Puerto Rico.