--- title: Military Blimp Gets Loose: Best Twitter Reactions description: Move over, runaway llamas canonical: https://time.com/4091232/runaway-blimp-twitter-reaction/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-28T19:59:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:26:25.012Z og:title: The Best Tweets About the Rogue Military Blimp That Got Loose og:description: Because everyone gets to be a comedian on social media og:url: https://time.com/4091232/runaway-blimp-twitter-reaction/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2df93005e1c2007f/69886e91bc6cfc80eb3da20c/blimp.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4500 og:image:height: 2531 og:image:alt: US-AVIATION MILITARY-FILES og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Best Tweets About the Rogue Military Blimp That Got Loose twitter:description: Because everyone gets to be a comedian on social media twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2df93005e1c2007f/69886e91bc6cfc80eb3da20c/blimp.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Best Tweets About the Rogue Military Blimp That Got Loose by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Oct 28, 2015 7:59 PM UTC  An aerostat as it is deployed at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland on Feb. 4, 2015. An aerostat as it is deployed at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland on Feb. 4, 2015.Brendan Smialowski—AFP/Getty Images by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Oct 28, 2015 7:59 PM UTC On Wednesday, a military blimp [detached](http://time.com/4091129/military-blimp-mooring/?xid=homepage) from its mooring at Maryland’s Aberdeen Proving Ground and, well, floated away. The unmanned blimp drifted northeast into Pennsylvania, where it [caused](http://www.newsweek.com/243-foot-blimp-breaks-free-and-drifts-above-pennsylvania-388081) power outages for 21,000 people. Keep in mind that this airship was approximately 242 feet in length — or about two thirds of a football field. Naturally, people on Twitter found this to be hilarious and absurd. Maybe not as hilarious and absurd as those [runaway llamas](http://time.com/3724871/llama-chase/), but still humorous enough to warrant all kinds of reactions. You know, because on Twitter, everyone gets to be a comedian. Behold: > [](https://twitter.com/jakesitler/status/659438059549802497) > [](https://twitter.com/daricsnyder/status/659435681756913664) > [](https://twitter.com/squideye/status/659443023739289600) > [](https://twitter.com/AntDeRosa/status/659442245901406208) > [](https://twitter.com/pourmecoffee/status/659444732888764416) > [](https://twitter.com/HarrySmith/status/659451612046430208) > [](https://twitter.com/crushingbort/status/659430438444863488) > [](https://twitter.com/DanFosterType/status/659433941624082432) > [](https://twitter.com/justinjm1/status/659443924898025472) > [](https://twitter.com/ckrewson/status/659445288873152513) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4091232/runaway-blimp-twitter-reaction/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4091232/runaway-blimp-twitter-reaction/"},"headline":"The Best Tweets About the Rogue Military Blimp That Got Loose","datePublished":"2015-10-28T19:59:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:26:25.012Z","description":"Move over, runaway llamas","url":"https://time.com/4091232/runaway-blimp-twitter-reaction/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2df93005e1c2007f/69886e91bc6cfc80eb3da20c/blimp.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2df93005e1c2007f/69886e91bc6cfc80eb3da20c/blimp.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-AVIATION MILITARY-FILES","caption":"US-AVIATION MILITARY-FILES","creditText":"Brendan Smialowski—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4091232/runaway-blimp-twitter-reaction/","name":"The Best Tweets About the Rogue Military Blimp That Got Loose"}}]}] ```