Posted on 03/24/2021 8:59:34 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
New details have emerged of how mysterious drones harassed U.S. warships off California on multiple occasions in 2019. The Navy has yet to determine where the drones came from, who was operating them, or why they buzzed around a group of U.S. destroyers.
The incidents were first reported by documentary filmmaker Dave Beaty, with new details obtained by news website The Drive using Freedom of Information Act requests to get the ships' logs of the encounters.
The vessels involved were the destroyers USS Kidd, USS Rafael Peralta and USS John Finn. They were engaged in a training exercise in a military area about a hundred miles off Los Angeles in low visibility. This location tells us something immediately: these were not hobbyist quadcopters that happened to see some cool ships and flew over for a look, but something far more deliberate.
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The incident is immediately reminiscent of the multiple incursions of drones over U.S. nuclear facilities we reported last year. Some 24 sites suffered 57 drone incursions from 2014-to 2019. In one of the more dramatic incidents in September 2019, “five or six” drones flew over the Palo Verde nuclear power plant for around ninety minutes.
As with the Navy incident, the drones were not single but operated as part of a coordinated group. As with the Navy, these were larger craft with greater endurance than consumer models, suggesting an operator with considerable resources. And as with the Navy encounter, investigators failed to establish who flew the drones, where they were flown from – and most of all why.
The most obvious explanation for both sets of drone incursions is that they were testing security – and in both cases the targets seem to have failed.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
No, our politicians are that incompetent.
I strongly suspect this was a test of the drones capabilities AND the capabilities of the ships sensors to detect and track the drones by defense contractors.
We don’t know that for sure, ufo peeps might throw their hands up in surrender if you just look at them cross-eyed.
Jack handy once said something like:
“I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they’d never expect it.”
“If it is private wise-asses they’ll stop doing it when they keep losing their drones.”
Private wise asses don’t have drones capable of flying 100 miles out to sea, loitering for 90 minutes, and then flying back home.
My guess is these were launched from a sub in the area.
Apparently not one of ours.
Countermeasures time! But it might be useful to capture at least one and track the others to their source.
Very strong possibility. And senior officers onboard each vessel were told not to shoot them down, but to watch how their various response teams reacted.
Jack Handy once said something like:
“I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they’d never expect it.”
LOL! Almost sprayed Pepsi on my monitor!
Are they white drones or drones of color???
That is an important fact to know before shooting them down....
So the US Navy has 4 destroyers is out in the deep blue ocean and they cannot shoot down any of the 6 drones that harass them for 90 minutes?
We are led by idiots who think the US Navy is a jobs program.
Good time for the Navy to test any laser weapons they are considering to deploy.
lol...U.S. Navy wringing it’s hands over some bothersome drones...Sure, I believe that.
Of course since they’re flying and remain unidentified...That makes them UFO’s.☺
We can’t have lead falling in our oceans - oh the horror
Jack was one funny dude. You can find his s “deep thoughts “ online, somereally funny ones. He had a real warped sense of humor 😆
Are these drones large enough to carry any ELINT equipment? Ferret out fire control radar characteristics, etc?
Swarms of flashing 'Tic-Tac shaped' UFOs chased four US Navy destroyers off California coast at 45 mph and hovered above them at night for WEEKS, ship logs reveal
Last night I had a dream about drones buzzing our activity, and how we responded. We got out an Army Surplus flame thrower. Lottsa fun. Good dream.
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