9 months ago
Title should be changed from UFOs to drones (which is the actual title of the article)
9 months ago
On X a community note would read:
NNN - An UFO is a valid designation for a drone9 months ago
9 months ago
Think of the bees! Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41826380
9 months ago
We can't leagally shoot down drones flying over military bases? Can really tell that law was written before the Ukraine war..
9 months ago
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
9 months ago
> Begs belief
I believe the term you were looking for is "beggars belief".
9 months ago
Does seem a bizarre restriction. I assume this is restricted airspace. Anything unpiloted should be fair game to be shot down.
9 months ago
Archive link https://archive.is/bDYTD
9 months ago
Likely China… they have the interest in finding out, interest in probing and large technology in drones
9 months ago
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.
9 months ago
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.
9 months ago
I don't think the American military industrial complex needs to resort to goofy tricks like this to get money.
9 months ago
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.
9 months ago
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.
9 months ago
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.
9 months ago
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.
9 months ago
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?
9 months ago
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.
9 months ago
9 months ago
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.
9 months ago
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.