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Integrated Sensor Is Structure · DARPA/USAF airship radar
Same PE as MAGIC. Lockheed integrator, Raytheon radar, ~$400–462m. Stratospheric airship with very large low-power radar. Confirmed programme; no evidence of MH370 collection.
Blue Devil I / II
Operational Block 1 WAAS + SIGINT · Block 2 residuals to BIG SAFARI
Block 1 was operational: manned aircraft carrying Angel Fire-derived wide-area imagery integrated with SIGINT. Block 2, the airship, was terminated — but its equipment, including GFE, was packed and sent to a BIG SAFARI facility in Greenville, Texas, available for other programmes. The technology did not vanish with the airship.
Blue Devil II stopped; hardware to Greenville
Payload stop 4 Jan 2012 · pack-out May 2012 · storage Q4 FY2012
Airship programme killed. Equipment packed and transferred to a BIG SAFARI-managed facility in Greenville, Texas. Components were available for other projects. Residual parts were later absorbed into other Air Force programmes.
Blue Devil, MAGIC, Orion, BIG SAFARI — 2014 window
Briefing collages, 18 September 2026
Nic Moneypenny published investigation collages placing Blue Devil (including an egg-shaped airship), MAGIC, Aurora Orion, BIG SAFARI, Lockheed and DARPA in the same 2013–14 spending window as MH370, with Freescale’s last gyro presentation among the plates.
Greenville, Texas
BIG SAFARI facility · Blue Devil II GFE available for other programmes
Q4 FY2012 destination of stopped Blue Devil II airship equipment, including government-furnished components. FY2014 USAF budget language: components available for other projects. Later inventory, including March 2014, is not published.
L-3 Greenville awarded Blue Devil 2 integration / test
FA8620-06-G-4003 / order 1157 · $12.054m · 17 Aug 2011
L-3 Communications Integrated Systems, Greenville, Texas, paid for BD2 airship integration and test support. Later Q4 FY2012 storage was also at a 645 AESG-managed Greenville facility. Geographic coincidence is not a custody finding.
Lockheed awarded ISIS Phase 3
27 April 2009 · just under $400m
Lockheed integrator, Raytheon radar, one-third-scale autonomous airship. Same later PE as MAGIC.
A BIG SAFARI collection architecture around MH370
The family is documented. A specific 8 March operation is open.
Gorgon Stare, Blue Devil and MAGIC/Orion are one overlapping ISR family under 645 AESG / BIG SAFARI: same office, overlapping WAMI/SIGINT sensors, reusable GFE through Greenville, and a podded architecture meant to move between airframes. That family is confirmed. Whether any of it collected MH370 is not established and is not ruled out.
Angel Fire
Wide-area airborne surveillance · lineage into Blue Devil Block 1
USAF/SOCOM WAAS system. Congressional documentation describes Blue Devil Block 1 as integrating Angel Fire-derived wide-area imagery with signals intelligence on manned aircraft. Confirmed as the WAAS ancestor in this family, not as an MH370 collector.
Blue Devil I operational demonstration ends
31 December 2013 · four King Airs returning to Leidos
Attributed via Inside the Air Force, 22 Jan 2014, quoting USAF officials. The four leased King Airs were returning to Leidos, so the original Afghanistan fleet was not an operational candidate on 8 March 2014. The multi-INT sensor package remained US Government property and was being assessed for reassignment (MC-12 and MQ-9 mentioned, not selected). The sensors did not disappear with the lease.
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
ISIS systems integrator, Palmdale
Prime on ISIS Phase 3. Confirmed industrial role; no MH370 collection evidence.
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