Posted on 01/21/2021 6:34:07 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
Months after the first sighting of the jet pack guy over Southern California, we get new insights into the official investigation into the incidents.
ohn Greenewald, a vigorous filer of Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) requests and author, who runs the website The Black Vault, received the documents through the FOIA process and generously shared them with The War Zone. You can read the documents in their entirety over at The Black Vault
...the Chief Test Pilot at Jetpack Aviation, based in Van Nuys, California, who was skeptical of the reported sighting.
"He confirmed that they have not flown for months," Goodell wrote of his conversation with Mayman. "He stated that he does not believe there are any 'Jetpack' operators who could get to 3000’ and sustain it."
It is possible that this is some sort of a drone dressed up to look like a guy in a jet pack, as seen in the video below. Then the question becomes why would someone be doing this? What could possibly be worth the risk? Also, it's not like executing such a feat would be a cheap or simple operation. In this case, the craft wasn't even flying over a populated area, it was out to sea where there are far fewer eyes to even recognize it
(Excerpt) Read more at thedrive.com ...
Guys gotta have some fun.
And I was still trying to paste the photo of the Man-i-kin near the ground with his controller...
I should have started sooner!
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