Fort Huachuca uses balloons suspended in the air equipped with cameras capable of zooming in 100 miles.
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The Jimmy Dore ShowAug 3, 2026
Fort Huachuca does host a tethered aerostat (balloon) surveillance system suspended in the air, so that part of the claim is supported. However, sources describe the Fort Huachuca balloon as carrying radar rather than zoom cameras, which contradicts the camera capability in the claim.
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… data of everybody involved for someone who may not be in, be knowledgeable about this, who needs to know who's who, um, or maybe other people who are involved in this operation who needs to know who's who, so I can they need a base pass, they need an escort. And on Fort Wachuka, they have ah, yes, yes, yes they have these big balloons that are suspended up into the air, and they have, they have cameras on them that are capable of zooming in, um, a hundred miles. They can see Fort Bliss from Fort Wachuka. Ah, so these things would be fed with, yeah, these people are authorized. When they realized that Mitch Snow was on base and unauthorized, what happened? He was swarmed by everybody. He was detained. …
The Jimmy Dore Show · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Contradicts. The Border Chronicle states that the older blimps, including the one at Fort Huachuca, were limited to radar, while the camera-equipped video system was the Nogales balloon.[1]
Contradicts. The Center for Land Use Interpretation describes the Fort Huachuca blimp's equipment as radar capable of detecting aircraft or boats within about 200 miles, not zoom cameras.[2]
Supports. Multiple sources describe a Tethered Aerostat Radar System blimp held aloft at Fort Huachuca, tethered to a winch and operated for border surveillance.[2][3][4]
Context. No source describes a camera with a 100-mile zoom at Fort Huachuca; the 100-mile figure in the post appears to be confused with the radar's detection range, which sources give as 150 to 200 miles.[2][3]
Sources
4 sources: 3 not rated, 1 tier 2
- 1America's Gulag - The Border Chronicletheborderchronicle.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 2Fort Huachuca TARS - The Center for Land Use Interpretationclui.org · not rated · cited for: contradicts, supports, context
- 3The Border (Part Three) - The Atlantictheatlantic.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports, context
- 4U.S. Air Force Aerostat Site, Fort Huachuca, AZ 85613, US - MapQuestmapquest.com · not rated · cited for: supports
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