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Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport

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Re: Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport

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Post by tclancy »

SirFatty wrote: post #21
3D30497420 wrote: post #5

Further commentary/speculation on this Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/ADSB/comments/1r1pqnp/10_day_tfr_is... It includes a local city Councilmember who's says he is working to get more information.

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First of all, you want "font". Second of all, don't do that.

Re: Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport

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Post by AdamN »

extraduder_ire wrote: post #23
c420 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Underground nuclear test and trying to mitigate the EMP grounding proximate planes?

Why wouldn't that be announced in advance? It'll be detectable internationally as soon as it happens.

If true they would have told the Russians and the Chinese and yes everybody will know after the fact. But for various reasons they might not want to disclose ahead of time in case Trump gets talked out of it or they realize they're not ready or various other reasons (perhaps the Energy Dept. doesn't actually want to do it but they're going forward step by step hoping it gets halted).

Re: Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport

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Post by donkeybeer »

sph wrote: post #31
KnuthIsGod wrote: post #7

Launching the invasion of Canada and Greenland perhaps..

Aren't those countries thousands of miles away from El Paso, Texas?

Cuba could be one. While Florida is closer, it's possible due to El Paso being considered highly isolated.

Re: Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport

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Post by Stevvo »

Shank wrote: post #17

Nuclear weapons test? The latest test treaty just expired. Edit: There are two TFRs, one in El Paso and one right next to it in the mountains: https://tfr.faa.gov/tfr3/?page=detail_6_2234

I think not; it's not somewhere you can conduct a nuclear test without starting a war with Mexico. However it is interesting to look at the TFR area in Google maps; it looks just like a nuclear test site, but the craters are natural volcanoes.

Re: Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport

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Post by 1nightbearvulf »

massysett wrote: post #24
Shank wrote: post #17

Nuclear weapons test? The latest test treaty just expired. Edit: There are two TFRs, one in El Paso and one right next to it in the mountains: https://tfr.faa.gov/tfr3/?page=detail_6_2234

Wouldn’t the Nevada Test Site be much better for this? Huge, government controlled, no major airports or cities, and moreover, already used for this sort of thing.

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