Not that there's anything important there – just F-22s and stuff
The former commander of the the Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Virginia, has revealed an unidentified drone swarm buzzed the facility for 17 days last December.
The matter was considered sufficiently serious that it reached the White House, where deliberations considered how to stop the flights. Various ideas were proposed – including using directed energy weapons to disable or bring down the drones, although this was not carried out for fear of interfering with commercial airliners during the busy December travel season. Proposed attempts to jam the drones were also rejected for fear of disrupting 911 emergency coverage.
The drone flight reports come after similar aircraft were spotted over Edwards Air Force Base in California and the Energy Department's Nevada Nuclear Security Site outside Las Vegas. In no case have the operators been positively identified.
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