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.
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Our military forces should shoot those drones down.
And there it is again, my re-occurring nightmare of elimination by drone.
Bring it on.
Or from a ship over the horizon, or dropped from an aircraft.
Without statistics regarding size and speed, assumptions are useless.
“Skeet!”
I’m sure the ship’s Captain could rustle up several good old boy crew members that are good with a shotgun.
Some kind of undersea base there?
Funny you should mention that. Such a base has been suggested as being in that neighborhood and it would explain a lot.
If memory serves this old man, Jimmy Church did a few shows on his investigation of the issue ‘out there’.
100 miles offshore. Submarine launched?
Just point the ships radar at them and crank up the power.💥
Back in the mid 60s I worked on an albacore boat out of San Pedro. Once we found ourselves near some Navy ships doing drills near San Clemente. After a while a plane flew over, circled us several times and tried to tell us something, but the plane was so loud that we really couldn’t understand him. In any case he flew away and we kept fishing.
I only bring this up, because some are implying that because the ships were 100 miles off of the coast, they were in the middle of nowhere with no one else around. There used to be a lot of fishing boats out there.
dragnet2 wrote:
“Drones are a much easier term to deal with than UFO.”
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That’s what I want to know. Were they high speed, silent and “tick-tack” like shaped, similar to the ones the pilots videoed in the same operational area before? Or were they the traditional slow noisy rotor craft? Very little description given besides “drones”. Strange choice of wording without other descriptors.
CHINA SkyNet has been activated.
Autonomous robotic drones are training too.
Training to hunt and kill our Navy.
SS1
One anecdotal report says they were tic-tac shaped devices but the ship’s log indicates the order, “man mark 87 stations.” Mark 87 rifles are line-throwing guns and it would appear that the commanding officer was giving orders to shoot a line at a drone in an attempt to capture one.
A line thrower would not bring down a tic-tac, but it would bring down a small drone.
BiteYourSelf wrote:
“Just point the ships radar at them and crank up the power.💥”
That’s what got the Roswell craft. Three high powered mobile Army radar units were in use and manned at the time. One was at Los Alamos, another was along side of old Rt. 66, now I-40, near the Continental Divide East of Gallup, NM. Not sure where the third unit was. Anyway they focused on it to triangulate its position and down it went. The radar must have interfered with the crafts controls or something causing the crash. Anyway it crashed and was recovered near Corona, NM. I heard this from one of the mobile radar operators who was there.
SS1
RoosterRedux wrote:
“One anecdotal report says they were tic-tac shaped devices but the ship’s log indicates the order, “man mark 87 stations.” Mark 87 rifles are line-throwing guns and it would appear that the commanding officer was giving orders to shoot a line at a drone in an attempt to capture one.”
“A line thrower would not bring down a tic-tac, but it would bring down a small drone.”
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Thanks for the update, in reading further it isn’t clear what size they even were but that sounds right if they could hit it with a line gun. A “tic-tac”, yeah, not so much.
Still if they were of conventional quad copter design (like a DJ Phantom)how did they get 100 NM off shore and where did they go? Were they disposable and just dropped into the sea when their mission was complete?
High strangness.
SS1
Using the term, "Drones" is pretty ambiguous. Sounds like lip service.
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