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

 .

 Probably not the unit that is more effective, but the operators that are more
diligent!

Dale Davies


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