A yr after mysterious drones spent weeks buzzing over a U.S. army set up Pentagon officers nonetheless are certain the place they got here from.
Army officers first noticed the drones final December over Langley Air Drive base in Hampton, Virginia, based on the Wall Avenue Journal. The drones at all times appeared on the similar time and continued to swarm over the bottom for over two weeks:
Based on officers who noticed the weird flyers that plagued the bottom over 17 days, they’d typically seem round nightfall and be seen flying off and returning. Some had small lights that shone like stars over the bottom.
It was, based on Common Mark Kelly — no relation to the astronaut-turned-senator — a sci-fi-esque collection of incidents to witness, inflicting him to provide the debacle the nickname “’Shut Encounters at Langley.’”
Officers described the drones as 20-foot lengthy crafts able to touring at speeds of over 100 mph. The drones additionally don’t appear to be something army officers have seen earlier than, a lot in order that the Pentagon referred to as in each the FBI and the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Workplace. Worse but, federal legal guidelines have officers palms tied over take care of them; the drones actually can’t be shot down due to the regulation as Futurism detailed:
Compounding the difficulty are federal legal guidelines that bar the army — and everybody else — from capturing down drones flying over or close to army bases until they’re decided to pose a direct risk.
This additionally doesn’t appear to be the primary time that one thing like this occurred. In October 2023, drones had been noticed over the Division of Vitality’s Nevada Nationwide Safety Web site exterior Las Vegas. Then in January, the Journal says, a College of Minnesota scholar by the title of Fengyun Shi who lived close to the bottom, bought a drone from Costco and flew it over the shipyards. After it fell out of the sky, the feds found that Shi had taken photos of naval vessel building on the yards. He was arrested and pleaded responsible and sentenced earlier this month to six-months in jail.
After which earlier this month, extra drones had been noticed over Edwards Air Drive Base in Southern California. And even with these cases, army officers say they’re nonetheless stumped over the place the drones got here from and who’s behind them.
