New Details Emerge On The "Highly Modified Drone" That Outran Police Helicopters Over Tucson

(I am not sure where to post this. But it is very important as we don't know whom was in control of this spy drone which was over Davis Monthan Air Force Base.)

Last month, The War Zone reported on a bizarre drone encounter that occurred in the skies above Tucson, Arizona. According to reports, on the evening of February 9, 2021 around 10:30 PM local time, a helicopter belonging to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, or CBP, encountered what has been described by KOLD's Dan Marries, who interviewed an FBI agent assigned to the case, as a “highly modified drone” in controlled airspace. Another helicopter operated by the Tucson Police Department’s Air Support Unit was called in to help track and potentially identify the drone alongside the one from CBP, but the drone was able to evade them both and remain unidentified. Shortly after the incident was disclosed, the FBI released a statement asking for help from the public regarding any information related to the encounter.

In the days since we first reported on the Tucson drone encounter, individuals have reached out with new information that adds further context to this still-developing story. A source with direct knowledge of the incident's details told The War Zone they believed the drone was highly unlikely to be battery-powered based on the altitude, distance, and speed at which it flew. The source also stated it seems as though the drone was equipped with an infrared camera based how it was able to dynamically maneuver, including in relation to the helicopters chasing it, despite the low level of ambient light at the time of the incident. They also added that it is "only logical that it was looking towards DM’s [Davis Monthan AFB] flight line" based on its location.
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New Details Emerge On The "Highly Modified Drone" That Outran Police Helicopters Over Tucson

Here is a link to the FBI page asking for people with more info to help them investigate this unusual drone.


FBI Seeking Information on Illegal Drone Activity Near Tucson

Whom has the capabilities to make such a drone which can outrun police/military helos and why would they be spying Davis Monthan Air Force Base?

Is this some terrorist cell in the U.S.? Is it China's Communist Party? Or did some idiot that has the technical know-how modify this drone for some dark purpose?

COBRA Commander has released the drones!

Let's try to stick ontopic and less on the BS, this is a very imteresting piece and it certainly has perked my interest.

Could be CCP, operating within the US, I think they do in some capacity, considering how porous the US is.

One thing the CCP have advanced on is comnerical drones.

Whatever the case is, FBI asking the public for help? Not a good look.

a reply to: Arnie123

If they had eyes on it, why couldn't they shoot it down? I mean flechettes work really well against Drones.

a reply to: ElectricUniverse

It is a very interesting story.
I have not read the stories you linked to yet but I did briefly read a story the other day about this.
If I remember right, didn’t they say it reached an altitude above 10,000 feet?
What kind of drone could do that?
What are the service ceilings of our advanced military drones?

If they could not identify it whatsoever, why do they think it might be a human controlled drone?
I don’t know, this appears to me to be something along the lines of what the US Navy have been reporting about recently.

Could be a bazar red herring story from the Biden Administration😎

So bazar that people will automatically dismiss it and the real story gets buried😎

originally posted by: Guyfriday
a reply to: Arnie123

If they had eyes on it, why couldn't they shoot it down? I mean flechettes work really well against Drones.

I posted that on my last post, blast the # out of space or otherwise fake story.

Any comment from Raytheon, Lockheed, Northrop?

Where is all this high tech I keep hearing about for taking down drones?
Cartels got tired of digging tunnels. Drug shipments via drones. Welcome to 2021.
Across the border the drug cartels have been bombing the hell out of the police with drones.

originally posted by: ElectricUniverse

Whom has the capabilities to make such a drone which can outrun police/military helos and why would they be spying Davis Monthan Air Force Base?

Is this some terrorist cell in the U.S.? Is it China's Communist Party? Or did some idiot that has the technical know-how modify this drone for some dark purpose?

Drug cartels have the resources to do something like this. Testing it out against military and law enforcement seems like a reasonable idea before you actually put it into service. If it works, it would be a more cost effective than trying to sneak shipments or cash through customs.

originally posted by: VictorVonDoom

originally posted by: ElectricUniverse

Whom has the capabilities to make such a drone which can outrun police/military helos and why would they be spying Davis Monthan Air Force Base?

Is this some terrorist cell in the U.S.? Is it China's Communist Party? Or did some idiot that has the technical know-how modify this drone for some dark purpose?

Drug cartels have the resources to do something like this. Testing it out against military and law enforcement seems like a reasonable idea before you actually put it into service. If it works, it would be a more cost effective than trying to sneak shipments or cash through customs.

All drug cartels lines are monitored and so are their passenger traffic to China and vs. American intel on the ( not saying, Snowden stuff here ) now and has for the last 8 years have been able to track all .... surprised on this... all congress people that have gone to China and collected their chinese counterparts on their their telephones and the conversations.
Have you notice which congress people now are quiet during the biden adm.... there's a reason for that.

I can offer that I've seen weird drone-eque stuff over Tucson these last few months. It's an intense, small, dark red light (much smaller and darker than the usual nav lights seen) that can hover for many minutes, then it switches to "normal" strobe and navigation lights and moves like a helicopter. I assumed it was law enforcement's newfangled 'copter or drone since it could hover so long with no discernible drift, but can't really know.

I also saw a weird, distorted something pass over swiftly and silently that I couldn't ID at all... and if it was a drone it was big and completely silent as it passed directly overhead. It looked like it was reflecting city lights off some distorted surface or field and two edges looked like v-shaped flights of geese but there were no wings flapping and there aren't any slightly glowing geese around here that I know of.

Either way, it's been fun spending a few minutes sky gazing around here.

a reply to: Arnie123

The police/military helos couldn't keep up with the drone. So whomever modified it must have resources and know-how.

originally posted by: Guyfriday
a reply to: Arnie123

If they had eyes on it, why couldn't they shoot it down? I mean flechettes work really well against Drones.

They were attempting to catch the drone and follow it to it's owner. But the helos could not fly as fast as the drone.

a reply to: VictorVonDoom

If the drone was used for cargo it would fly slower and the police/military helos could have followed it. But since it was able to escape the military/police helos it couldn't have been carrying anything. More so since it was over one of our Air Force Bases so it seems to have been surveilling the AFB. This seems to be a surveillance drone for some dark motive. But I could be wrong.

a reply to: ElectricUniverse

What if all this drone activity and uap activity is the beginnings of "skynet" or what Musk and others have been warning of the rise of AI. Think about it there have been some in the military/ government saying this stuff is anywhere from 100- 1000 years ahead of what we have today AND they are saying it is not Extra Terrestrial, so It only makes sense it is AI.

a reply to: ElectricUniverse
A cartel...

a reply to: EndtheMadnessNow






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originally posted by: ElectricUniverse
a reply to: Arnie123

The police/military helos couldn't keep up with the drone. So whomever modified it must have resources and know-how.

BS
Pure BS
Previous Air Force guy here
You folks are like eating marshmellows over a campfire and pulling away the marshmellow from the kids before it browns and taste is the king of the mountain .

Not in the states and not too familiar with drones but if it was at that altitude and moved that fast it was not a civilian drone, it may have been military.

There are other factors at work in the US a lot of you believe and so do many of us outside the us that your election was tampered with, this in turn may have triggered some factions that are as yet not revealing themselves to prepare and begin monitoring the opposition ahead of a potential move though it is likely that given how divided the US is they could have done that from the ground from within that military site, however it is also possible they really wanted eye's on.

It was most possibly though Chinese or Russian but what is so important about that base, the Russians already have satellites that orbit and scan the US just as the US has it's own that scan Russia not only dating back to cold war times but modern replacements up there, the Chinese probably have a few as well and likely gain some intel from the Russians but most likely as there relationship is very much one in which both the Russians and Chinese are holding daggers behind there back's while shaking one another's hands the Chinese would be most likely to think they needed an aerial drone if they thought that there was something going on there they wanted to spy on.

YES it is a good point that this may have been a UFO as well and indeed until it is properly identified that is in fact what it is.

Monitoring the military base is an interesting but not unheard of UFO activity and one that had many worried that they may be analysing our military, offensive and defensive capability's.

I am curious though, do we have ANY civilian DRONES that can fly faster than a military or police helicopter?.

And could a civilian drone even be converted so that it could, military drones are custom built for there roles and come in many types from stand off monitoring aircraft to strike and even aerial combat fighter drones with the military R&D making them smaller, quieter and more stealthy by the day as well as larger, more powerful and better ranged with more ever more multirole and dynamic ability's.

So my guess is military or foreign military possibly Chinese and if so launched from a cell inside the US somewhere, likely the Chinese have a full blown operations command somewhere within the US given how large your nations geography is, BUT are the Chinese drones that advanced yet, can they outrun military and police helicopters.

I understand not shooting it down though, heavily built up area most likely and the possibility of not only the drone falling onto residential or other areas but also of stray rounds hitting someone on the ground, they should have scrambled fighter aircraft however to intercept it and I am surprised the did not as there must be an airbase somewhere near enough to have responded.

It is possible the FBI involvement may suggest a possible suspected internal faction at work but then it becomes an argument of who is the good guy and who is the bad if that is the case.