Posted on 10/30/2024 3:54:23 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
Speaking to The War Zone along with a small group of reporters at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado Springs, the commander of U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) and the joint U.S.-Canadian North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Air Force Gen. Gregory M. Guillot offered few specifics about the incursions but talked about some of the steps NORTHCOM is taking in the wake of those incidents.
“The only thing I can tell you about the Langley drones is roughly the number and roughly the altitude,” he said when we asked him about the exact characteristics and configurations of those drones. He did not elaborate. However, earlier this month, Air Force Gen. Mark Kelly told The Wall Street Journal that at least one of the drones 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.”
Replying to our question, Guillot told us he did not know if they were tracked back to their recovery point or whether they could have been launched by a vessel off the coast.
The Langley incursions were among more than 600 reported over U.S. military installations since 2022, NORAD stated Tuesday. In the wake of the rash of drone activity over Langley AFB, NORTHCOM was tasked by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to look at drone incursions across the U.S., Guillot said.
“I saw that NORAD’s responsibility for countering UAS was very limited to something that would be an attack of national consequence,” he explained not the small drones as seen over Langley and elsewhere. NORTHCOM, meanwhile, has no responsibility or authority to take action, because the services are charged with securing their facilities.
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Guillot said that he “coordinates frequently” with the recently formed All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the Pentagon’s unit tracking what used to be known as UFOs. In addition, he remains confident that the incursions reported over installations are small drones as opposed to something that can’t be identified.
As we have frequently reported, there have been unidentified drone incursions for years over U.S. military installations, warning areas, and critical government facilities. Among them were a very similar repeated rashes of claimed drone sightings in Colorado in 2020 in an area where many of America’s ICBMs are based. Another took place at the Palo Verde nuclear facility in Arizona in 2019.
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I know nothing. I see nothing.
They think we are stupid.
It would be very interesting if Trump wins and assigns Musk, Vivek, and Tulsi the job of cleaning out the dead wood in the government (starting with the Pentagon).
Civilian videos and Gen. Mark Kelly's comments indicate that these drones are 20 ft in length and stayed aloft for extended periods over the base before heading east (presumably out to sea).
Also, some reports describe a "mothership" as being around the size of a school bus (or larger). This craft was seen hovering over the James River and was speculated as serving as a coordinating vehicle, potentially deploying or directing smaller (20 ft) drones in the area.
This description adds an interesting dimension to the sightings, particularly because it implies a level of technological sophistication far beyond typical commercial, even known military, drones. Observers noted that the mothership was seen moving in coordinated patterns with the other drones, though its exact purpose or origin remains unknown, adding to the mystery surrounding these incursions This "mothership" theory has also fueled speculation about potential foreign surveillance or even more unusual explanations, given that it reportedly evaded the base’s advanced detection systems.
Furthermore, these incursions over Langley AFB persisted for 17 consecutive nights.
Observations indicated that drones appeared shortly after sunset and operated for hours before disappearing around midnight. This pattern of nightly activity raised serious security concerns, as the drones consistently returned to restricted airspace despite attempts by the base’s security forces to track or intercept them.
No pictures or videos of this mothership? If only people carried something in their pocket that could take pictures.
I'll see if I can locate a video for you.
Here’s a youtube seach page with various reports and video captures...https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=newsnation+langley+AFB+drone+incursion
Clean them all out and start over, rehiring on case by case basis.
That would work just fine. All the AF needs is one (so-called drone) to study.
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