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Unmasked: Area 51's Biggest, Stealthiest Spy Drone Yet
Foreign Policy ^
| 6 Dec
| Zach Rosenberg
Posted on 12/06/2013 2:27:20 PM PST by mandaladon
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To: Malsua
It could have been a drone or other radio controlled aircraft. Unless you know the size of the object, you cannot guess its distance or speed.
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posted on
12/06/2013 5:43:17 PM PST
by
JohnnyP
To: hondact200
’ that looks like something that flew over recently while at deer camp.’
Was that the second week of deer camp?
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posted on
12/06/2013 5:46:48 PM PST
by
Delta Dawn
(Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
To: mandaladon
It's so stealthy that even the Iranians have to put in a mild effort to obtain them....
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posted on
12/06/2013 5:53:05 PM PST
by
Sirius Lee
(All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
To: JohnnyP
It could have been a drone or other radio controlled aircraft. Unless you know the size of the object, you cannot guess its distance or speed. In a heavy downpour, several miles from the nearest home, in the dark, over a heavily wooded area...I doubt it was a radio controlled drone. The lights on it lit up the sky and the clouds around it.
I've seen big quad/hex copters at night and it looked nothing like this. This craft was big, with aircraft landing lights on it, not some blinking LEDs.
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posted on
12/06/2013 6:46:53 PM PST
by
Malsua
To: Malsua
Sounds like a UAV (drone)...maybe some Amazon customer getting a delivery..../;)
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posted on
12/06/2013 7:46:20 PM PST
by
Tainan
(Cogito, ergo conservatus sum -- "The Taliban is inside the building")
To: Delta Dawn
yeah, it was the second week of deer camp. no luck with finding that elusive thirty point buck either.
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posted on
12/07/2013 6:35:17 AM PST
by
hondact200
(Candor dat viribos alas (sincerity gives wings to strength) and Nil desperandum (never despair))
To: mandaladon
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posted on
12/07/2013 9:17:45 AM PST
by
oxcart
(Journalism [sic])
To: Yosemitest
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posted on
12/07/2013 12:11:05 PM PST
by
PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
To: oxcart
Yep, looks like they took an X-47 design and modified it with long wings (like the U-2) for extremely high altitude flight.
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posted on
12/07/2013 12:14:08 PM PST
by
PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
To: PapaBear3625
I retired out of Eglin AFB and Duke Field, in 2000, and as a Control Tower Watch Supervisor, I had to work and protect the air traffic from these UAVs and Combat UAVs.
The X-47B is after my time, but I worked around many others.
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posted on
12/08/2013 1:39:23 AM PST
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Yosemitest
(It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
To: Malsua
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12/08/2013 1:49:05 AM PST
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Yosemitest
(It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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