Posted on 08/20/2024 11:29:15 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
The U.S. Air Force’s Plant 42 in California, America’s premier hub for advanced aerospace development work, especially highly classified military programs, has seen a wave of mysterious drone incursions in recent months. The incidents have now become serious enough to prompt the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to impose new, if temporary flight restrictions around the sprawling high-security facility. The Air Force acknowledged these incidents in response to our questions about purported sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) in the area which became viral on social media over the weekend and that local law enforcement appears to have received no reports about.
Palmdale Regional Airport shares the runways with Plant 42, which is home to Lockheed Martin’s famed Skunk Works advanced projects division, as well as similar arms of both Northrop Grumman and Boeing. NASA also has a flight testing center there. As a prime example of the work that goes on at Plant 42, it is where Northrop Grumman has been building the U.S. Air Force’s new B-21 Raider stealth bombers. America’s most sensitive and ‘bleeding edge’ aerospace weaponry emerges from this facility, so security at the installation, which is located in a relatively urban area, is taken very seriously.
When contacted for additional information about the temporary flight restrictions around Palmdale Regional Airport, the FAA directed us to contact the Department of Defense. The U.S.-Canadian North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) also told us that it was not involved in the situation around Palmdale.
“As far as a response specifically to UFOs / UAPs [unidentified flying objects / unidentified aerial phenomena], it’s quite likely that any UAPs in our area are small unmanned aerial systems, or drones. We’ve not received any UAP reports, but we take such reports seriously,” Kozaitis added.
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UFO Ping. Hat Tip to Red Badger for the heads up.
Three different phenomena, the last of which appears to be a hoax — but catchy.
This means that when people search for video they most likely will get that video and not of the real sighting which occurred earlier and with which this video begins.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5yNzHLHPhBI
Similar to how when you search for “Phoenix Lights” you’ll always get the flares which the Air Force dropped later after the actual triangle had passed over (there is a brief clip of that as well — but good luck finding it)
Prior to recently, I suspected any ”UFOs” were advanced US technology made by us exclusively, or with help from “aliens” I.e. demons. Now I think if there are “aliens” they are helping the Chinese because the alternative—that the Chinese are that much smarter than us and caught up to us and surpassed us— is even scarier
I fully believe that bad people would be using drones to spy on what ever the cutting of tech we have being tested.
Actually, I would be surprised if they weren’t spying on us. That is literally what spys get paid for.
What I don’t understand is why we don’t have towers set up around the area and our guys shooting the “skeet” as they appear.
*yawn*
The real ‘news’ here is that they can’t - or won’t, i.e., they’re government drones - take them out.
Not UFOs/UAPs in any way whatsoever.
smh
Chinese drone swarm.
Taking off from where and landing where?
Shoot ‘em down.
You make a great point! If they’re Chinese in origin, where do they take off and land? SURELY they don’t have enough range for the answers to be “Mainland China”.
Yep. And, in some cases (seen by witnesses), they are running bright lights (that would use up a lot of battery life).
I cant claim to know either point but I do know that it looks exactly like the drone swarm form intervening different displays at EAA Airventure 2024.
The drones at Langley weren't shot down either.
They were not only unidentified, but NASA sent a NASA WB-57F aircraft up to Langley to find out what the hell was going on.
The fact that this aircraft--a NASA WB-57F--was seen flying circular orbits centered around Langley AFB suggests that it was involved in a specific mission or investigation, possibly related to the drone swarm or other aerial phenomena observed in the area. The WB-57F's capabilities would allow it to gather detailed data that could be useful for both NASA and the U.S. military, particularly in understanding or monitoring unexplained aerial activities.
Key point:
If our military can’t stop drones from overflying sensitive installations (let alone identify the operators)...
...then NOTHING will stop a serious assassination attempt.
I thought it said Secretive PlanEt 42.
I that like Stawberry Letter 22?
Good point. It would be nice to know what the hell is going on. But whatever these drones are, they represent, as you say, an extreme weakness in our system.
sure, but these fly faster than anything we have, and anything before say 2020 BETTER not be Chinese or else this is all an illusion--they can put the smack down on us at ANY time if that's the case.
Maybe it's the Russians. They have done 80% of what we did with far less resources.
It still could be our people. A secret program where all the missing children go. There is a civilization of 1000000 people of all ages who live underground who are controlled and molded and shaped and learned to their highest potential. Some design the stuff. The rest of them build the stuff, or operate the stuff. Some get to go out into the real world and leak it to our companies. Who knows.
These air vehicles don't fly in the day time .... trust me
In ancient times, UAPs appeared as flying shields fully equipped with Directed Energy Weapons, formations of lights, flying boats, and so on. When the article speaks of drones many readers assume man-made contraptions. This is not necessarily so, and even if drones appear manmade so did the ancient shields, flying boats, and so on.
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