Report: UFO Drones Have Been "Swarming" U.S. Military Installations And The Pentagon Has No Idea How To Stop Them

MSN- U.S. Air Force Gen. Mark Kelly wasn’t sure what to make of reports that a suspicious fleet of unidentified aircraft had been flying over Langley Air Force Base on Virginia’s shoreline.

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 show usually starts 45 minutes to an hour after sunset, another senior leader told Kelly.

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.

Officials didn’t know if the drone fleet, which numbered as many as a dozen or more over the following nights, belonged to clever hobbyists or hostile forces. Some suspected that Russia or China deployed them to test the response of American forces. 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.

(Sidebar here - excuse me WHAT? 

You can 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. Our club in Cleveland that I part own, Forward (FWD), a big outdoor, summertime club, sits next to a coast guard base on Lake Erie. We tried having a videographer shoot a drone video one night during one of our bigger shows and the SWAT team showed up like we were plotting a terrorist attack. Not to mention, aren't military bases and airport airspace restricted airspace and aren't drones not even physically able to fly in them? I need a drone expert to explain this to me. I'm so confused. Sorry.)

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 Department’s Nevada Nuclear Security Site outside Las Vegas detected four of the drones over three days. Employees spotted a fifth. U.S. officials said they didn’t know who operated the drones in Nevada, a previously unreported incursion, or for what reason. A spokeswoman said the facility has since upgraded a system to detect and counter drones.

The sightings revealed the dilemma of defending against drones on U.S. soil compared with the ease of deploying or battling them abroad. Drones have become a deadly and cost-effective tool of war, capable of carrying surveillance gear, explosives or lethal chemicals. Yet shooting down suspicious aircraft over the U.S. risks disrupting or endangering the lives of Americans the military is sworn to protect.

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. 

If another country beat us to it in the race to reverse engineer alien technology we've had access to for decades, then who knows what other gizmos and gadgets they're created off of that alien's spaceship Will Smith dragged all the way through the desert. 

…Ten months later, the phalanx of drones appeared at Langley.

Over 17 days, the drones arrived at dusk, flew off and circled back. Some shone small lights, making them look like a constellation moving in the night sky—or a science-fiction movie, Kelly said.  They also were nearly impossible to track, vanishing each night despite a wealth of resources deployed to catch them.

Gen. Glen VanHerck, at the time commander of the U.S. Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command, said drones had for years been spotted flying around defense installations. But the nightly drone swarms over Langley, he said, were unlike any past incursion. U.S. officials also confirmed this month that more unidentified drone swarms were spotted in recent months near Edwards Air Force Base, north of Los Angeles.

This guy has said this has been going on forever, and that they even dive underwater where our submarines "see" them. 

U.S. officials didn’t believe hobbyists were flying the drones, given the complexity of the operation. The drones flew in a pattern: one or two fixed-wing drones positioned more than 100 feet in the air and smaller quadcopters, the size of 20-pound commercial drones, often below and flying slower. Occasionally, they hovered.

They came from the north around 6 p.m. to traverse the base, which sits on a peninsula at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, and continued south, beyond the reach of radar. 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. An FAA official said such a weapon carried too high a risk for commercial aircraft during the December holiday travel season.

Others suggested that the U.S. Coast Guard shoot nets into the air to capture the drones. An official pointed out that the Coast Guard might not have the authority to use such a weapon in this instance. Besides, the drones were too difficult to track closely.

Excuse me, but sidebar again - "Others suggested that the U.S. Coast Guard shoot nets into the air to capture the drones. An official pointed out that the Coast Guard might not have the authority to use such a weapon in this instance." Honestly? You're telling me the Coast Guard can't employ a tactic that Shaggy and Scooby perfected 50 years ago? You can't even shoot a net on them to try and down them? Who makes these rules?

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VanHerck, who led the military response to the Chinese balloon, ordered jet fighters and other aircraft to fly close enough to glean clues from the drones. He recommended that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin authorize a full menu of electronic eavesdropping and spycraft to learn more, though the Pentagon is limited in what it can do on U.S. soil.

Solving that mystery, even for the world’s pre-eminent superpower, proved easier said than done. Local police were among the first to try.

For two nights, starting on Dec. 6, Hampton, Va., officers chased the drones, by patrol car and on foot, relaying momentary sightings along with information from Langley over police radios: One was seen in the area of Marshall Street or Gosnold’s Hope Park. 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.

I'm sorry, nobody is a bigger supporter of the men and women in blue than I am, but I can't help but crack up laughing at the thought of local police chasing aliens. Can you imagine them driving around frantically trying to track those things in the sky? It would be like Ray Liotta in Goodfellas with the helicopter scene. 

Or even better, on foot? 

The aliens have got to think we're even bigger morons than we actually are.