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Mystery Drones Swarmed a U.S. Military Base for 17 Days. The Pentagon Is Stumped.
MSN/WSJ ^ | Gordon Lubold, Lara Seligman, Aruna Viswanatha

Posted on 10/19/2024 5:59:48 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

U.S. Air Force Gen. Mark Kelly wasn’t sure what to make of reports that a suspicious fleet of unidentified aircraft had been flying over Langley Air Force Base on Virginia’s shoreline.

Kelly, a decorated senior commander at the base, got on a squadron rooftop to see for himself. He joined a handful of other officers responsible for a clutch of the nation’s most advanced jet fighters, including F-22 Raptors.

For several nights, military personnel had reported a mysterious breach of restricted airspace over a stretch of land that has one of the largest concentrations of national-security facilities in the U.S. The show usually starts 45 minutes to an hour after sunset, another senior leader told Kelly.

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Drone incursions into restricted airspace was already worrying national-security officials. Two months earlier, in October 2023, five drones flew over a government site used for nuclear-weapons experiments. The Energy Department’s Nevada Nuclear Security Site outside Las Vegas detected four of the drones over three days. Employees spotted a fifth.

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1 posted on 10/19/2024 5:59:48 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Autonomous weapons are controlled by people and by computers.

It’s chaotic, and stupid.


2 posted on 10/19/2024 6:01:50 AM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: All

This was the WSJ story that created the recent news flap about this issue. It was previously behind the WSJ paywall.


3 posted on 10/19/2024 6:02:13 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Thinking objectively is difficult. And painful. That’s why many people just cling to their biases.)
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To: Openurmind; Churchjack; eastforker; Levy78; maddog55; Jonty30; GingisK; Mark17; spirited irish; ...

Ping


4 posted on 10/19/2024 6:03:18 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Thinking objectively is difficult. And painful. That’s why many people just cling to their biases.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Not ‘stumped’.... rather, traitorous

You cannot tell me that with the billions and billions the US spends on defense, people in positions of authority, responsibility and power can tell me (with a straight face) that they are ‘stumped’.

STOP insulting me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


5 posted on 10/19/2024 6:06:48 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: RoosterRedux

Meh, these idiots are always stumped anymore.
I figure by reporting it that it must mean they are cooking up some lie or false flag to hit us with.


6 posted on 10/19/2024 6:10:19 AM PDT by dforest
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To: RoosterRedux

Langley AFB is NOT restricted airspace, it is in an MOA, ANYONE can fly through or over whenever they want as long as they are above 3000 AGL


7 posted on 10/19/2024 6:13:30 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: SMARTY

If I were President I would tell the base commander that I want something dissected and placed in the White House conference room by the end of the day.

It can either be one of the drones or the base commander.

:-)


8 posted on 10/19/2024 6:14:56 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: dforest

The Air Force tracks everything in the continental airspace that rises into the air. They know exactly what these things are, and where they come from. The drones make noises like “lawnmowers.” That means they have internal combustion engines.

So:

-They are terrestrial.
- We know where they come from and where they go.

If those things are true (and I believe they are), then they are our drones and we are testing them against our own bases and staff.

This reporting is specifically used to garner an emotional response. It’s silly.


9 posted on 10/19/2024 6:15:40 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: eyeamok

Does that mean that Soviet nuclear missiles are cleared to fly in that airspace?

Lol.


10 posted on 10/19/2024 6:16:08 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: dforest

One possible scenario is that these are creations of a secret military project. The idea is to fly the drones over military bases to see if they could be electronically neutralized. If our military has problems neutralizing them, then perhaps the militaries of other nations will also have problems. Better to field test such a system here than go blind in some other area before we know for sure.


11 posted on 10/19/2024 6:16:51 AM PDT by Enterprise (These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)
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To: RoosterRedux

For the good General’s sake, I certainly hope the roof wasn’t sloped.


12 posted on 10/19/2024 6:18:06 AM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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To: RoosterRedux

If it’s “restricted” airspace why weren’t the drones destroyed?


13 posted on 10/19/2024 6:24:18 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: cgbg

I like the way you put that.


14 posted on 10/19/2024 6:24:37 AM PDT by quantim
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To: RoosterRedux; bitt; little jeremiah

somebody’s dropping a pin?


15 posted on 10/19/2024 6:27:18 AM PDT by thinden (Buckle up …..)
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To: RoosterRedux

Sure they did.

Squirrel….


16 posted on 10/19/2024 6:28:55 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: cgbg

If they have ADS-B, then YES they can fly over and through Langley AFB (LFI)


17 posted on 10/19/2024 6:36:30 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: eyeamok

I feel so much safer knowing that the military plays by the rules...

Lol.


18 posted on 10/19/2024 6:38:20 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: cgbg

Federal law prohibits shooting down drones over AF bases unless they constitute a threat. More than one is a threat and the need to be shot down. These were large drones, not just a teenage lark.


19 posted on 10/19/2024 6:39:16 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Vermont Lt

That would be my guess also, they are ours and it was and is an exercise. During the Predator Drone testing years ago I was flying to AZ in my 172 and a Predator with a 182 chase plane pulled along side me for about 30 miles across the desert, real cute drone.


20 posted on 10/19/2024 6:40:16 AM PDT by eyeamok
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