The show usually starts 45 minutes to an hour after sunset, another senior leader told Kelly.
The first drone arrived shortly.
Other drones followed, one by one, sounding in the distance like a parade of lawn mowers.
Aerial snooping doesnt qualify, though some lawmakers hope to give the military greater leeway.
(Sidebar here - excuse me WHAT?
you’re able to fly drones over military bases and they can’t shoot them down?
Even if they know they are spying?
Am I reading that correctly?
How on Earth can that be the case?
It makes zero sense.
I need a drone expert to explain this to me.
I’m so confused.
Drone incursions into restricted airspace was already worrying national-security officials.
Two months earlier, in October 2023, five drones flew over a government site used for nuclear-weapons experiments.
The Energy Departments Nevada Nuclear Security Site outside Las Vegas detected four of the drones over three days.
Employees spotted a fifth.
A spokeswoman said the facility has since upgraded a system to detect and counter drones.
Well, I’m going to say that this is extremely concerning.
This is either the aliens checking out to see what we’re up to.
OR it’s them letting us know that they know what we’re up to.
Like that lady in the article said, they are illuminated with lights for a reason.
They want to be seen.
If they didn’t, they’d be stealth and we would have zero idea they were there.
So what and why are they sending the message?
OR
This is the advanced surveillance technology of a foreign adversary, which means we are totally fucked.
…Ten months later, the phalanx of drones appeared at Langley.
Over 17 days, the drones arrived at dusk, flew off and circled back.
But the nightly drone swarms over Langley, he said, were unlike any past incursion.
U.S. officials didnt believe hobbyists were flying the drones, given the complexity of the operation.
Occasionally, they hovered.
They repeated the pattern and then disappeared, typically by midnight.
One suggestion was to use directed energy, an emerging technology, to disable or destroy the drones.
Others suggested that the U.S. Coast Guard shoot nets into the air to capture the drones.
Besides, the drones were too difficult to track closely.
you could’t even shoot a net on them to try and down them?
Who makes these rules?
Solving that mystery, even for the worlds pre-eminent superpower, proved easier said than done.
Local police were among the first to try.
Three more appeared to land but returned to the air before officers could reach them.
Another looked like it landed offshore.
Police finally gave up.
Can you imagine them driving around frantically trying to track those things in the sky?
It would be like Ray Liotta inGoodfellaswith the helicopter scene.
Or even better, on foot?
The aliens have got to think we’re even bigger morons than we actually are.
