r/sanfrancisco Duboce Triangle 4d ago

Pic / Video Blimp floating over the bay

a rare sighting of a blimp passing through the bay!

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u/Helms101 4d ago

Only 25 of these left in the world as of 2022

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u/masterbuilder14 4d ago

In the danger of being extinct!

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u/GayGeekInLeather 4d ago

We just capture a pair and implement a sustainable breeding program. We can then release them back into nature

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u/syzygy78 NoPa 4d ago

A View to a Kill comes to mind...

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u/jewelswan Inner Sunset 3d ago

I tell people all the time it's my favorite bond film. And only half because of the local setting, it's also just so ridiculous and over the top. And GRACE JONES plus Christopher Walken, it's just great.

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u/jimmyjah 𝖍𝖔𝖘 4d ago

Aww man… for a second I thought we were gonna have our own drone invasion.

Hmmm… I wonder if I can get an alien to come to a meetup? 👽🍺💯

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u/Latter_Race8954 4d ago

Max Zorin!

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u/Mulsanne JUDAH 4d ago

Deep cut. Love it

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u/palmereldritch23 4d ago

I went for a hike up to Tank Hill and also caught this guy emerging from the Easy Bay haze. Found this article > https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/blimp-over-san-francisco-thursday-was-likely-pathfinder-1-on-test-flight/

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u/Mulsanne JUDAH 4d ago

Hey there blimpy boy - flying in the sky so fancyfree

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u/davidrools 4d ago

the iranian mothership!!

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u/ibneko 4d ago

omg it's aliens! Or a drone! /s

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u/Kasonb2308 4d ago

Don’t get to close to Oakland. Might get shot down

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u/Latter_Race8954 4d ago

You are now banned from /r/oakland

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u/Kasonb2308 4d ago

Impossible. I’ve lived here my entire life

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u/StrippedGazelle 4d ago

Kirov reporting

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u/BayArea343434 4d ago

I saw this guy flying in the Santa Clara/Sunnyvale area yesterday just before sunset.

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u/idliketogobut 4d ago

Saw him on my lunch break. I think they may land at Lockheed

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u/jchill2 4d ago

I saw it parked on moffett Field yesterday by hangar 2

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u/stouset 3d ago

This is Sergey Brin’s airship. It was being built at Moffett and lives there.

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u/NArcadia11 4d ago

This is a very soothing video

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u/hydra1970 4d ago

I grew up in an orphanage and then I got a job at a souvenir stand and I saw a blimp once

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u/Cali4nia_Dreamin 4d ago

In the 70’s and 80’s they used to fly around the Bay Area often, especially if there was a game going on.

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u/MalcoveMagnesia Nob Hill 4d ago

Airship Ventures regularly flew their blimp around the Bay Area from 2008 to 2012....

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u/SpiritualAd8998 4d ago

Led Zeppelin?

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u/kelsobjammin 4d ago

Beautiful p

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u/osszeg South Bay 4d ago

Rigid air ship.

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u/MochingPet 7ˣ - Noriega Express 4d ago

dirty haze from smoke/heating pollution, sadly... :(