An UFO was seen on top of a military truck four days ago travelling down US 77. Residents of Cowley County, Kansas, thought the military were trying to haul an alien spaceship wrapped in plastic. On plain sight. In daylight.
Come on Cowley County citizens, you can do better than this.
The answer is more mundane than that: the UFO was actually an X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System, a drone designed to operate from aircraft carriers. Northrop Grumman has confirmed they were shipping the lethal wing to the Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland. There it will be tested on an airstrip designed as a carrier runway.
If you watch the video, however, what will really surprise you is its size. This thing is gigantic. [Defense Tech]
Sevrin
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 7:52 AMSorry Cowley County citizens. You’re all just going to have to wait for Mardi Gras for your anal probes this year!
Shucks!
DarthDVD
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 8:46 AMum…. RQ-170???
DarthDVD
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 8:48 AMoops jumped the gun….
Eccentric
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 8:49 AMIt’s obviously a wrapped up stealth drone, you can see the intake quite clearly in the shape at the front of the thing! Silly bloody yanks, as if the Government would cart a UFO down the main street in plain daylight.
Eccentric
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 8:54 AMDon’t know if I’d call it huge though, compared to a full sized manned fighter, they can get quite a lot more of these on board a carrier than fighters etc…
Paul
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 8:45 PMYou’ve got to admit it’s fairly large. I never knew those drones were that big, thought they were a little smaller. But yeah, the intake is clear as day.
Jim
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 9:51 AMReminds me of this: (not sure if i can post links here, but i’ll give it a shot)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3L8gEaTRuE
Mike Swaine
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 11:15 AMHAHAHAHA Jim I was thinking the same thing!!
cayal
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 10:15 AMIf it was Smallville then I’d question it.
RB
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 10:30 AM*facepalm*
Peter
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 11:22 AMIf it isn’t flying, can it be a UFO?
Argh Bee
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 12:07 PM*An* UFO?
chris
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 1:52 PMnow that just sounds silly and we all know it
leave it for the A, E, I and O’s
Argh Bee
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 3:32 PMI love how the image behind the newsreader, has had the landing gear ‘shopped off. More UFO cred.
Goose
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 4:14 PMif you watch the video, you will weep for American intelligence (double entendre completely intended)
BTW – News reader is rather hot.
dils
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 1:23 AMFew men find every thing hot..
Captain Pajama Shark
Monday, January 30, 2012 at 3:30 PMIt actually was a UFO, the whole unmanned plane thing was just convientent!
They just made a cardboard shell around the ACTUAL UFO to make it look like one of their new unmanned drones.
In fact… the whole unmanned drone thing is a cover up.
They are actually retrofitted UFO’s.
It’s true, Elvis told me… and you don’t doubt the king!