Title should be changed from UFOs to drones (which is the actual title of the article)
On X a community note would read: NNN - An UFO is a valid designation for a drone
Mystery drones swarm US Military base
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Re: Mystery drones swarm US Military base
#22Likely 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.
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.
Re: Mystery drones swarm US Military base
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
But they do evidently invest heavily in PR and "think tank" activities to drum up support, including misconstruing harmless events as national security threats.