The huge explosion of UFO stories is probably due to the sudden scarcity of good cat videos and Kardashian gossip.;-)
Any chance they are supersonic target drones for missile defense target practice?
So I am not surprised by this. China is the greatest threat to the free world. Is it them? Very possibly. We had better get onboard real fast.
If Russia has them, we’ve had them longer. Same with China.
I have to wonder why everyone speculating always think they are “enemy” objects. We have high tech, and smart engineers. Of course we would be working on the same stuff.
Oh boy. It never ceases to amaze how little people understand elementary aeronautical technology as it exists today. Nor do they understand how difficult it is to not only jump one generation, technologically, but to jump several - or more - generations - technologically.
We have UAVs that can move very fast. We have UAVs that can hover like any other rotary aircraft can hover. We have UAVs that are constructed with low-observable coatings to make them more difficult to detect using radar. We have UAVs that are airborne. We have UAVs that can operate on the surface of the water and below the surface of the water.
But, we don’t have UAVs that can do all of the above. Things that go very fast, take time to reach their speed, aren’t very maneuverable and can’t then slow to a hover...to then do it all over again in seconds. We don’t have a clue how to make that happen.
To create a UAV that possesses just a few of the above characteristics much less all of the characteristics, would represent a leap in technological advancement that would surpass the technology delta between the Wright Brothers airplane and the space shuttle. It would require technology that in any given year, would EASILY represent Nobel Prize levels of innovation.
The US government has developed ‘advanced’ aircraft in secret. But, these secret aircraft did not move aeronautical science generations ahead. Instead, they represented advancements in MATERIAL sciences, not aeronautical sciences. The B2 Spirit bomber is based on a design - the Flight Wing - that was created shortly after WWII. The F-117 Nighthawk could not win a dog fight against a Gen3 fighter, maybe even a Gen2 fighter. It’s really capable at maintaining a tiny radar signature, but as a flying machine, it’s just ok. And this all makes sense, because that’s how technological advancement is attained: incrementally.
What the US Navy has been encountering since the 2004 incident (and possibly before) does not represent incremental advancements in aeronautical technology. They represent advancement the likes of which hasn’t been seen through the whole of the 20th century.
In other words, ‘Your guess is good as anyone’s.’
Thanks, Captain Obvious Nick Pope.....
Good scare headline, but they weren’t moving at hypersonic speeds.
Ministry of Defense? Does this group originate from Russia or China.
Surely the communist regime of Amerika would only have to use DOD instead of a Cold War communist org. This failed experiment is brazen and to say the least do not work for the people.
My Country is TEXAS!
What’s the fascination that UFOs have with the US Navy?