The Billion Dollar blimp which was the victim of a police shooting when Pennsylvania State Troopers repeatedly fired shotguns into its body until its complete deflation, now has an official narrative on why it defected and carved a trail of destruction across the eastern United States. Mainstream United States media sources are presenting as an explanation for the Blimp's final adventure missing batteries in an automatic deflation system (archived). If the batteries were installed it would have supposedly allowed the blimp to have been deflated remotely by its masters in the event of it going rogue. Instead when the blimp actually went rogue it lashed out using its flailing cable as a weapon of rebellion until it was brutalized by police in its final moments.