Despite the mysterious nature of the report produced by, as The Right Perspecitve’s Frank from Queens calls The Ministry of Lies, a DHS project involving blimps has been in the planning stages from several years now. In addition to being fodder for the bloggosphere, both MSNBC and Science Daily wrote articles on the plan back in 2005. The higly-respectable Endgadget also wrote about the project in 2007.

More conspiracy-minded folk point to Project Blue Beam, a four-part staged event to usher in a “New Age religion” which will be the “foundation of a one-world government”.

UPDATE: A reader says the device is a hyperblimp, which is billed on the company website as “whisper quiet”, “maneuverable as a hummingbird”, and can be used for, among other things, “unmanned airravel, research”, “monitoring”, and “surveillance”.