Mystery drones swarm US Military base

[diwank]

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

[sebazzz]

On X a community note would read:

    NNN - An UFO is a valid designation for a drone

[downvotetruth]

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

[fyrn_]

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

[simmerup]

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

[HarHarVeryFunny]

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

[sudoaptinstall]

Archive link https://archive.is/bDYTD

[shadowpho]

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

[pphysch]

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.

[netsharc]

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.

[HarHarVeryFunny]

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?

[iwaztomack]

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.

[OutOfHere]

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.

[gremlinsinc]

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.