Robin and I were driving through west Texas near Marfa and we
 first saw this about 30 miles away.  My guess is; it was about
 1000 feet AGL.

   If you see one of these things don't fly below it :)

      Paul Lamar

 its a radar platform looking for low level crossings of the border.
 these things can fly as high as 10,000 feet and have been
 around since the 70's. Smaller versions have been sold outside the
 country and mounted on coast guard vessels off
 Columbia. There is a line of these things across the border of Israel
 and Egypt. You do not want to impact the tethers on
 one of these baby's. They have more volume than the Goodyear blimp.

 George W

  the w? dangerous, good to keep pilots informed, will post
of these on my other groups.

jess    --

  I dare say they are much more effective on the Israeli Border than they are
on our Mexican border...

roger


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