March 21, 2015
Military airships getting Baltimore-area test…
http://www.idrudgereport.com/
(Above image link lost, redound here: Army’s blimp-like airships get East Coast test (ICBM detection)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3238404/posts)
Billion Dollar Surveillance Blimp to Launch over Maryland – The Intercept
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/12/17/billion-dollar-surveillance-blimp-launch-maryland/
A previous sighting was off 73 (Newport Beach), blimp was nested in marine layer at extremely low altitude. Enroute to work, no photo taken, maybe a year or two prior to the Irvine sighting, cited below.
Irvine (Orange County), CA
https://forthtell.wordpress.com/2014/12/18/unmarked-white-surveillance-blimp/
Pattern Is Prologue 