Except for the departure speed, it sounds like a small unmanned blimp With the pivoting engines, it would stir up the water at a low altitude.
This is a big deal.
School of fish.
USS Princeton CG-59 is the same machine that was hit by two mines in the first gulf war.
Saw Tucker Carslon interview one of the pilots. Pilot said he would love to fly whatever it was, LOL!
In around 2006, the Army started experimenting with unmanned blimps . Telford Aviation of Dothan, Alabama was awarded an $11,195,164 contract for “operational support for Medium Airborne Reconnaissance Surveillance Systems.” The contract was awarded by the US Army’s Communications-Electronics Command, hence the creation of the Skybus 30K.
The Skybus, according to the Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), “can loiter for 30 to 40 hours, can travel up to 35 knots, and has faint visual, radar, infrared, and acoustic signatures.” It seems clear that the US Army’s “Medium Airborne Reconnaissance Surveillance Systems” - not a term it normally uses - will be robot spy airships intended for ground surveillance to include border patrol, port security, survivor search, wildlife management and sports event monitoring.” And put an emphasis on border patrol.
Skybus can lurk in the sky for days on end above the range of handheld anti-aircraft missiles. The manned airship in the 2004 trials was said to be able to comfortably exceed 10,000 feet if required, which would keep it safe from shoulder-launched missiles even if they could lock on to its feeble signatures. And there isn’t a lot of info loose to say what’s been done to propulsion since then. This may still be sensitive.
Maybe that is what was seen?
rwood
I just finished watching “Final Countdown”.
IIRC, the carrier featured was the Nimitz and one of the call signs was FastEagle1.
The history of UFO’s in the modern area to 1951. Goggle ufo Washington DC US Capitol abc news. Several days of video with 20’ish ufo’s hovering over the Capitol building while ABC was filming a news story. One time 3 F-15’s chased several down thru southern maryland.
Interesting that the Commander interviewed is the same guy that was on the PBS special “Carrier” and who retired shortly after the special was made.
Face it, there is stuff in the air that has been seen for the last 75+ some odd years by the airforce, heck as long as we have had an airforce. There have been strange things in the air stretching back beyond the record of history.
Now the question is, the millitary has had 75+ some odd years to figure it out and have they?
They either have it figured out or they are still clueless.
If they haven’t figured it out it points to a perceived weakness in progressive government.
I wonder if they still can’t figure it out and are afraid to disclose that fact as they might look weak and useless.
If they spread the mythical rumour that some of those birds our are own and they have been reverse engineering them they then appear stronger and their budget stay safer.
It is really interesting, but I think we as the tax payer and sovereigns of this country as citizens should certainly KNOW what they KNOW about this phenomenon. Otherwise we are being used for funds and they are making decisions that could affect us beyond those made in Washington and that is a very bad thing for our form of government to sustain.