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Mystery Drones Swarmed a U.S. Military Base for 17 Days. The Pentagon Is Stumped.
WSJ via msn ^ | 12 Oct 2024 | Gordon Lubold, Lara Seligman, Aruna Viswanatha

Posted on 10/12/2024 9:58:56 PM PDT by blueplum

...For several nights, military personnel had reported a mysterious breach of restricted airspace over a stretch of land that has one of the largest concentrations of national-security facilities in the U.S.

The first drone arrived shortly. Kelly, a career fighter pilot, estimated it was roughly 20 feet long and flying at more than 100 miles an hour, at an altitude of roughly 3,000 to 4,000 feet. Other drones followed, one by one, sounding in the distance like a parade of lawn mowers.

The drones headed south, across Chesapeake Bay, toward Norfolk, Va., and over an area that includes the home base for the Navy’s SEAL Team Six and Naval Station Norfolk, the world’s largest naval port....

Over 17 days, the drones arrived at dusk, flew off and circled back....They also were nearly impossible to track, vanishing each night despite a wealth of resources deployed to catch them....

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: China; Government; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: aviation; balloons; blackops; chesapeakebay; chicoms; china; chinesestudents; dei; drones; dronetesting; edwardsafb; espionage; langley; lasvegas; lockheed; military; nationalsecurity; navalstatiom; norfolk; norfolknavalstation; nuclearsecurity; putin; russia; russiandrones; russians; seals; sealteams; soviets; sovietunion; spies; spooks; spying; stealth; ussr; xi
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1 posted on 10/12/2024 9:58:56 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: blueplum

A drone “roughly 20 feet long and flying at more than 100 miles an hour at 3,000 to 4,000 fee” was “nearly impossible to track”? And we couldn’t track a “swarm” of them?

Really? We can’t spot a swarm of SLOW and BIG aircraft? They just “vanished each night”? At Naval Station Norfolk, the world’s largest naval port???

What the heck is going on? All of our advanced ISR tech and we couldn’t track them? We didn’t just shoot them down when they got onto the NAS?


2 posted on 10/12/2024 10:05:36 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (It should be illegal to be here illegally. It should be a crime to be committing crimes in the USA.)
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To: blueplum
I think it's safe to say that an air base that houses F-22s has sophisticated enough security systems to track any drones they wish to track.
3 posted on 10/12/2024 10:07:59 PM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Time to bring back the Grumman F2F...


4 posted on 10/12/2024 10:09:22 PM PDT by kiryandil (Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )
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To: blueplum

I find this hard to believe.


5 posted on 10/12/2024 10:38:28 PM PDT by McGruff (Ask everyone, Are you better off than you were four years ago?)
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To: blueplum

Shoot it down, then take it apart. You know the drill. right? You are expected to do more than just staring at it through binoculars, or worrying about it so much, that you cannot perform your assigned duties.


6 posted on 10/12/2024 10:43:32 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

And if this really were so, we’d be sharing it in the media?


7 posted on 10/12/2024 10:43:44 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: blueplum

Plenty of theories have been offered to explain thr origin of these. Demons. Visiting time travelers from our own future.
Aliens. Russian or Chinese advanced craft being tried out. Our own military trying out advanced weaponry on ourselves w/o casualties. Inadvertent time slip victims from wherever getting caught here.


8 posted on 10/12/2024 10:48:42 PM PDT by desertsolitaire ( Lee Harvey Oswald and the Bands final performance)
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To: blueplum

Good thing they were not Chinese weather balloons. Then we would really be helpless to stop them.


9 posted on 10/12/2024 10:50:23 PM PDT by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: 9YearLurker

My guess: Enough civilians noticed and inquired, so “somebody better say something.”


10 posted on 10/12/2024 10:52:51 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: linMcHlp

IMO that’s not what they’d say if it were the real situation.


11 posted on 10/12/2024 11:02:28 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: blueplum

12 posted on 10/12/2024 11:13:08 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason
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To: blueplum

More like the deep state didn’t want them to be intercepted.

17 or 18 times and the military could not track them. They didn’t have jets up ready to pounce. Pull the other one.


13 posted on 10/12/2024 11:14:19 PM PDT by Revel
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To: 9YearLurker

It’s true. Local stories in addition to military accounts were plentiful. And yes, they could not reliably track the drones, keep them in their IR, visual, or radar sights or discover launch or recovery points. And prohibited by law from firing on them “just because they were there”.


14 posted on 10/12/2024 11:19:24 PM PDT by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: All; blueplum

“Anti-Drone nets” coming as a result:

https://www.twz.com/air/protective-nets-to-shield-f-22s-eyed-for-airbase-swarmed-by-mystery-drones

Prior “Mystery Drones in VA” “TWZ” thread:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4224773/posts


15 posted on 10/12/2024 11:22:29 PM PDT by Drago
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To: McGruff

There are a lot of things hard to believe happening in America circa 2024.

I believe very little of what we’re told, most if not all has an ulterior motive.


16 posted on 10/12/2024 11:50:18 PM PDT by captmar-vell
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To: blueplum
Reports of the drones reached President Biden and set off two weeks of White House meetings after the drones first appeared in December last year. Officials from agencies including the Defense Department, Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Pentagon’s UFO office joined outside experts to throw out possible explanations as well as ideas about how to respond.

Leave it to the Biden bureaucracy to bury themselves under two weeks of meetings re a deadly drone problem.

No doubt at the first call to shoot one down, a woke bureaucrat jumped up at the big meeting table and cried out "But the poor people on the ground!"

Let a swarm appear over the sacred D.C. Swamp itself and those big twenty-foot drones would be evaporating like snowballs in July.

17 posted on 10/13/2024 1:26:03 AM PDT by henbane ( WAKE UP, AMERICA! The DEMS & RINOs are eating you alive!)
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To: blueplum
Federal law prohibits the military from shooting down drones near military bases in the U.S. unless they pose an imminent threat. Aerial snooping doesn’t qualify, though some lawmakers hope to give the military greater leeway.

Why would we have a law this stupid? And when did Biden push it through?

18 posted on 10/13/2024 1:35:41 AM PDT by GOPJ (Corrupt ABC referees/mods trying to throw the game to Kamala made Kamala look worse.)
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To: blueplum

Let’s get this straight once and for all, “Rules of Engagement” only apply to couples about to be married. In war there are only two rules:
Rule #1= people die
Rule #2= only God can change Rule #1
Anything else is pure BS!


19 posted on 10/13/2024 2:02:52 AM PDT by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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To: blueplum

911 soon to be a footnote ?


20 posted on 10/13/2024 2:12:18 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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