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Mystery drones swarm US Military base

wsj.com

29 pointsjseip20 comments

Title should be changed from UFOs to drones (which is the actual title of the article)

Think of the bees! Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41826380

On X a community note would read:

    NNN - An UFO is a valid designation for a drone

We can't leagally shoot down drones flying over military bases? Can really tell that law was written before the Ukraine war..

Not only that, but the article alleges that they couldn't catch the drones either

Begs belief, some information must be getting caught by a classification here

> Begs belief

I believe the term you were looking for is "beggars belief".

Does seem a bizarre restriction. I assume this is restricted airspace. Anything unpiloted should be fair game to be shot down.

Archive link https://archive.is/bDYTD

Likely China… they have the interest in finding out, interest in probing and large technology in drones

It's vastly more likely that it was a classified US military-intelligence operation/test than a foreign actor operating freely in deepest CIA territory.

But threat inflation = bigger budgets.

I don't think the American military industrial complex needs to resort to goofy tricks like this to get money.

From the government as a whole? No. But for some specific department to get funding over others? Yeah, probably that sort of jockeying for funds happens all the time.

Even then, I don't think they would need to create a fleet of drones to buzz around military bases to scare up a pretext for more funding. That's comic book logic.

That's not at all what's happening. I don't think the MIC invests heavily in producing false-flag events.

But they do evidently invest heavily in PR and "think tank" activities to drum up support, including misconstruing harmless events as national security threats.

There is no doubt in my mind whenever I hear about these things or “tic tacs” and the like that it’s probably one agency testing new tech on another.

Whether or not it’s used for budget inflation, who knows. Looking at the backchannel communications and reactions has value. If you can fool the best military in the world, you can fool the next best too.

The archive link https://archive.is/bDYTD has the title "Mystery Drones...". Where does the "UFOs" come, an old title, or OP editorializing?

Sadly "UFO", although maybe factually correct (an object which flies and is unidentifiable), attracts the attention of the loud and uneducated, who believe alien civilizations visit this planet, and confirmation biases themselves into the faith.

There's a conspiracy among techies growing like ivy: that UFO == aliens, and that the US gov't is in cahoots, or being attacked by them. It's SO weird to see this spread among self-described critical thinkers. Probably why the change.

If it's a drone, then it's not unidentified - it's a drone. Do we need make/model and owner to call it identified? Maybe birds should be called UFOs too, unless we can identify the species?

In a real war, these drones would be causing explosions when they hit their target.

The US has EMF technology to remotely take down an entire swarm of drones approaching the base. It doesn't make sense to not use it.

yeah it does because EMF could take out a lot more than just the drones including airplanes that are flying commercial paths up higher, or cell towers, etc.

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