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Government places drone restrictions over 11 military sites
December 28, 2024
While drone legislation already covers most military sites, the new restrictions provide additional protection to address national security concerns.
These measures, it is understood, aim to enhance deterrence and offer more legal options following a surge in drone sightings near critical facilities, particularly those linked to nuclear weapons.
The 11 sites affected by the new restrictions are:
Alconbury
Croughton
Fairford
Feltwell
Fylingdales
Lakenheath
Menwith Hill
Mildenhall
Molesworth
Oakhangar
Welford
These sites are all key Ministry of Defence locations, with some linked to nuclear operations or sensitive military activities.
The restrictions apply to unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) flying within specific altitudes and distances around these sites.
This move comes after a series of unexplained drone sightings at US airfields across the UK, including two sites associated with nuclear weapons.
While no arrests have been made, the incidents have sparked concerns that the activities may be linked to Russia.
The authorities are continuing their investigations, although sightings have decreased significantly since late November.
To support this, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has issued temporary restrictions on unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) at the affected locations.
These restrictions, which run from December 23, 2024, to March 23, 2025, are designed to mitigate risks to national security.
They apply to drones only, with manned aircraft unaffected. Specific altitude limits and geographic boundaries have been set for each site, with the exception of certain emergency service operations.
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/government-places-drone-restrictions-over-11-military-sites/
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FAA restricts drone company after Orlando show incident that injured boy
Updated: 10:30 PM EST Dec 27, 2024
The Federal Aviation Administration has suspended the "Part 107 waiver" for the drone company behind falling drones at an Orlando holiday show, the agency said Friday.
A Part 107 waiver enables drone pilots to operate their aircraft beyond the typical restrictions outlined in the regulations.
Drone pilots can obtain this waiver to deviate from specific rules if they can fly safely using alternative methods.
This waiver permits pilots to operate drones in typically prohibited ways, including flying over people, navigating over moving vehicles, exceeding the visual line of sight and more.
The Texas-based company, Sky Elements, is known for its impressive performance on "America's Got Talent."
Now, it's at the center of an investigation by the National Transportation Safety Administration and the FAA.
The FAA reports several drones collided during the show on Saturday night, causing them to fall into the crowd.
The drone show typically features a display of synchronized drones flying in formation to create designs in the night sky.
However, one of the drones struck a 7-year-old in the chest, requiring emergency heart surgery.
The mother of the boy said the drone struck his chest with such force that it damaged one of his heart valves.
Following the accident, the FAA suspended Sky Elements’ Part 107 waiver, which limits the company's ability to operate drones beyond standard restrictions.
The FAA said in a statement that this suspension will remain in effect for the duration of the ongoing investigation.
As of Friday, a drone show scheduled for New Year's Eve in Dallas was canceled. Dusti Groskreutz, the President of Reunion Tower, released a statement saying in part:
"Sky Elements Drones informed Reunion Tower that they will not be able to fly their New Year's Eve show.
They are doing this out of an abundance of caution following a recent incident as they carefully review their processes for future shows."
CNBC News also confirmed the cancellation of a New Year's Eve drone show in New York's Central Park, which was scheduled to be put on by the same company.
The show was set to replace a fireworks show that was canceled due to drought restrictions.
https://www.wesh.com/article/faa-restricts-drone-company-orlando-drone-show-incident/63293708
https://www.faa.gov/uas/commercial_operators/part_107_waivers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJAcIU6inyg
China combines 3D printing and drones to support troops in combat zones
Dec 27, 2024 10:46 AM EST
China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is testing a system aided by 3D printing and drone deliveries to help the forces repair their equipment in remote locations or during wartime. The PLA is potentially testing this capability.
According to the reports, the testing was carried out by a brigade belonging to the PLA’s Northern Theatre Command Air Force.
This comes just months after the United States Army tried to get this capability and demonstrate it on the front lines.
Reports have also hinted at the US using this tactic to help Ukrainian soldiers on the frontlines get replacements for the damaged parts of their equipment.
If successfully deployed on a large scale, it could change how conventional wars are fought, as it would greatly help the troops.
3D printing parts and drone delivery by China’s PLA
According to a recent South China Morning Post (SCMP) report, the PLA’s Northern Theatre Command Air Force trialed the remote maintenance technology during an equipment repair drill.
The Chinese troops involved in the drill applied new technologies to the entire equipment maintenance process.
The maintenance team used a 3D printer to make functional replicas of the damaged parts at one site on the field. Once created, they were attached to drones and sent off to troops in various remote areas on the testing field.
According to the report, one such example of real-time problem-solving by the Chinese PLA involved a team sending a distress message conveying the breakdown of a missile-launching vehicle.
Once the remote maintenance team got the message, the 3D blueprint of the equipment was finalized. Following this, the maintenance team guided the troops on the ground to find and fix the fault.
It is important to mention that this might not be the first time that the PLA has tried such a capability, but the latest report suggests that it is developing and could be used in the future in real-world situations.
US has already tried this technology
The US Department of Defense (DOD) supplied 3D printers to Ukraine to give them the capability to fabricate critical parts for military equipment rapidly.
Another US startup raised $12 million from backers like Lockheed Martin to develop cheap miniature 3D-printing drone factories for battle zones like the Ukraine.
Moreover, in October this year, a senior US Army official revealed that the service is adding a new 3D model as data for helping the troops.
The US services have tried making those parts that the original manufacturers no longer produce and stock or can be procured after a lengthy process.
Therefore, adding 3D model data sets to the system can help ensure they can be safely produced when deployed on the ground.
The October report by Defense News states that the Army has about 1,000 parts mapped and loaded in its repository – and it aims to add an exponentially high number of them in the years ahead.
https://interestingengineering.com/military/china-pla-3d-printing-drone
https://www.defensenews.com/land/2024/10/14/us-army-inches-closer-to-3d-printing-spare-parts-under-fire/
Ford Gyron: The UFO on wheels that imagined the future
28 December at 07:30
In the 1950s and 1960s, Ford was one of the most active carmakers when it came to conceptual design.
Almost every year, the American brand presented prototypes with futuristic looks or advanced solutions.
One such example is the Gyron, a strange two-wheeler that looks like a real UFO (or UAP if you prefer).
A laboratory on wheels (not too fast)
The idea for the concept was only launched for experimental purposes only.
Ford had no intention of producing a production model, but only for marketing and aerodynamic research purposes.
It was a kind of design experiment for a car that was sure to get noticed.
The body is made of fibreglass and the car is powered by two wheels.
The front wheel is manoeuvred using a knob on the console, while the rear wheel propels the Ford, thanks to a small electric motor, to a maximum speed of around 5 mph.
When stationary, the Gyron is held in position by two side stabilisers and two small wheels.
An unfortunate history
The real special feature of the Gyron is the one that determines the very name of the car.
The vehicle is kept in balance by a complex system of gyroscopes, and among other oddities, there is a mobile phone placed between the two seats in the passenger compartment.
Exhibited at the Detroit Auto Show in 1961, the Ford was displayed at Ford Rotunda, one of the most visited exhibition complexes in the United States at the time.
Unfortunately, the structure and design were destroyed by fire in 1962.
As a result, all that remains of the Gyron are two non-functional prototypes produced in the early stages of development.
The first was sold at auction in 2012 for around $40,000 (£32,000), while the second was recently exhibited at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles.
https://uk.motor1.com/news/745662/ford-gyron-concept-1961-story/
Listen to the JetBlue Pilot’s Audio Claiming a UFO Flew Right in Front of Him Coast to Coast
December 27, 2024
A report by a JetBlue pilot about an eerie encounter with an unidentified flying object on a recent flight has really sparked curiosity and debate.
According to the pilot, it was a “bright orangey thing” that shot across the sky at astonishing speed, going from coast to coast before suddenly shutting its lights off and disappearing.
The description alone is enough to make even the most skeptical double-take.
The sighting has added to the growing list of UFO reports from pilots and the general public alike.
A JetBlue pilot with years of experience identifying everything from planes to celestial objects was fairly convinced that what he saw wasn’t anything ordinary at all.
It wasn’t a shooting star, it wasn’t another aircraft, and most importantly, it wasn’t some sort of trick of the eye.
Rather, the object went up in an arc while traveling in a trajectory about 30 degrees and simply disappeared.
Sightings of unexplained aerial phenomena crop up from all over the United States. Recently, an Oregon Life Flight crew reported a bunch of strange, red, erratic-moving lights that were dodging radar.
These lights remained visible for approximately 20 minutes before they vanished. Over 50 people near a California military base reported mysterious objects in the sky that would circle and then just disappear.
Even Arizona has its share of weird sightings, including one super bright object that had two pilots scratching their heads, with no corresponding radar targets to explain its appearance.
But what really makes this latest sighting particularly intriguing is the object’s behavior: it was traveling at high speed over a great distance and seemed to switch off its lights as if it knew it was being watched.
While most skeptics explain similar sightings with drones or some experimental aircraft, this one allows much room for speculation.
For example, drones can’t fly very far and usually are equipped with steady lights for safety. The way it moved plus that a commercial pilot was a witness gives weight to the mystery.
But for all of that time, UFO sightings took on a more serious tack in recent times.
It’s gotten to the extent now where the Pentagon has actually issued reports on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena-confirming a number of sightings had not been explained after their probe.
Military and commercial pilots increasingly come out with stories of their sightings, a layer of credence lent to what up until recently was consigned to the fringes as a conspiracy theory.
It is also particularly timely, tapping into our cultural fascination with UFOs-from science fiction classics to modern fare like Nope.
These mysterious objects have become part of our imagination, and the thought of someone traversing our skies for unknown purposes instills curiosity and unease.
Skeptics claim that such sightings usually are mistaken identity, the actual objects being drones, satellites, or some other natural atmospheric phenomena.
But when an experienced pilot in the skies recounts such a scenario, one cannot help but consider that perhaps we really do not know what exists out there.
Could it be an experimental aircraft? A new kind of technology? Or, as some like to speculate, a sign that we’re not as alone in the universe as we’d like to think?
Whatever the explanation, tales like this one fire up the imagination. If these sightings continue to stack up, the question may no longer be if UFOs exist, but what they are.
https://www.hypefresh.com/listen-to-the-jetblue-pilots-audio-claiming-a-ufo-flew-right-in-front-of-him-coast-to-coast/
https://x.com/ChuckCallesto/status/1872365951775383611
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/publictheology/2024/12/uap-in-the-nation-of-islam/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P88cGqzPdYs
UAP in the Nation of Islam?
December 27, 2024 at 5:04 pm
The very authority of The Honorable Louis Farrakhan (b. 1933) claims as minister-in-chief of the reconstituted Nation of Islam (NOI) comes from UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena).
But you might ask: why might we think of UAP in the Nation of Islam? Here is the answer: because Farrakhan was abducted, so to speak, by a UFO.
Within the hovering craft, it was the voice of the deceased Elijah Muhammed speaking to Farrakhan that consecrated Farrakhan to become NOI’s sacred leader.
But isn’t NOI a racist organization?
But you might ask: isn’t NOI a racist organization? Wikipedia certainly suggests this.
The Anti-Defamation League classifies Farrakhan as a racist, and the Southern Poverty Law Center considers the Nation of Islam (NOI) as a hate group and a black nationalist organization.
According to the SPLC, the NOI asserts that black people are racially superior to white people and promotes a “fundamentally anti-white theology amounting to an “innate black superiority over whites”.
According to the NOI, whites were created 6,600 years ago as a “race of devils” by an evil scientist named Yakub, a story which originated with the founder of the NOI, Wallace D. Fard.
Let me ask you to set aside for a moment the racial dimensions so we can focus on a specific UFO inquiry: are UAP in the Nation of Islam?
A Close Encounter of the Third Kind?
Louis Farrakhan filed a UFO sighting report — well, sort of — during a press conference in 1989 which he affectionally called, “The Announcement.”
What he announces looks a great deal like a Close Encounter of the Third Kind as categorized by J. Allen Hynek (Hynek 1972). Farrakhan is abducted by a heavenly wheel like Ezekiel’s. Well, sort of (Zimmerman 1997).
In a tiny town in Mexico, called Tepotzlán, there is a mountain on the top of which is the ruins of a temple dedicated to Quetzalcoatl—the Christ-figure of Central and South America—a mountain which I have climbed several times.
However, on the night of September 17, 1985, I was carried up on that mountain, in a vision, with a few friends of mine.
As we reached the top of the mountain, a Wheel, or what you call an unidentified flying object [UFO], appeared at the side of the mountain and called to me to come up into the Wheel. (Farrakhan 1989 / 1991).
What happens aboard the Mother Wheel looks quite like what the flying saucer contactees – such as George Adamski (Adamski 1953) or Orfeo Angelucci (Jung 1959) — of the 1950s described.
Farrakhan engages in a conversation with the then deceased prophet and leader, Elijah Muhammed. After Muhammed’s death in 1975, the group known as the Black Muslims split, weakened, and dissipated.
Then in 1989, when Farrakhan announced his UFO story to the press, his intention was to reconstitute NOI with himself as its divinely chosen leader.
UAP in the Nation of Islam provided Farrakhan with an other-worldly ordination.
Farrakhan becomes the shaman or priest thanks to UAP in the Nation of Islam
If you’re familiar with the history of religions, you’ll immediately notice the connection between heaven and earth. Farrakhan goes up the mountain.
The UFO comes down from the sky to pick him up. The mountain is the place, and Farrakhan is the person where heaven and earth become bonded.
This is classic religious symbolism. It exemplifies what Mircea Eliade referred to as the axis mundi, the center of the earth where earth and heaven connect (Eliade 1957, 118).
While aboard the Mother Wheel craft, the voice of Elijah Muhammad appoints Farrakhan to reconstitute NOI and become its central minister, its axis mundi (Eliade 1957, 36).
The shamanic traditions of many archaic cultures included the passing of the authority of the priestly figure through a call vision willed by heaven.
In this case, heaven is represented by an interstellar spacecraft that has, among its many technological achievements, overcome death.
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There is more here than merely a consecrating message from on high. There is also a promise of redemption.
It is Louisiana State University Professor Stephen Finley’s interpretation that “his mountaintop experience in Mexico, is Christ-like—soteriological and protective with respect to black people and apocalyptic with respect to America” (Finley 2022, 213).
Now, we might ask: did this happen objectively as Farrakhan describes it? This would be a proper question for a scientist.
However, I recommend we bracket the objective reality question and ask: what is the structure of meaning exhibited in this UFO report?
My answer: consecration and threat. Farrakhan is consecrated NOI leader, and he threatens to destroy the white people on earth through a bombing raid by invading flying saucers.
From Consecration to Threat
In addition to his anointing as shaman or priest, Farrakhan delivers a prophetic if not apocalyptic warning: repent and stop racism or face judgment and destruction!
“The white part of humanity—the part responsible for colonialism, imperialism, slavery, genocide, the Holocaust, world wars, and the threat of nuclear annihilation—would be gone.
Peace and joy without sickness would follow without end” (Curtis 2016, 22). Unless the white race ceases is prejudicial treatment of the black race, alien military technology will devastate the United States of America.
You will see these wheels, or what you call UFOs, in abundance over the major cities of America and the calamities that America is presently experiencing will increase in number and in intensity that you might humble yourselves to the Warning contained in this Announcement (Farrakhan 1989 / 1991).
In the apocalypse to come, Allah will destroy the world with bombs, poison gas, and fire. The black race will be redeemed on earth by the powers of heaven unleashed by extraterrestrial warriors.
Envoi
Stephen Finley, cited above, would want to place Farrakhan’s UFO experience within the history of Black liberation in America (Finley 2022).
This is certainly appropriate, to be sure. Nevertheless, when asking about UAP in the Nation of Islam, I’d like to place Farrakhan’s experience within the history of UAP in America and the dialectic between religion and science (Zeller Nov 2021).
It has been my observation over the decades that religious sensibilities are getting translated into the language of science and technology (Peters 2014).
It will not be angels who come to destroy America to punish the white race. The judgement will be exacted instead by spacecraft which, as we know, are the product of scientific research and technological advance.
Science and technology today bear the weight of meaning our ancestors experienced within religion (Denzler, Lure if the Edge: Scientific Passions, Religious Beliefs, and the Pursuit of UFOs 2001).
One of the most subtle dimensions of the UFO phenomenon has been the hidden faith that modern society places in science accompanied by its sister, technology. Science saves.
And if terrestrial science fails to save us, then we hope for a more highly evolved extraterrestrial science to save us.
This hope for scientific salvation is something Farrakhan in NOI shares with the UFO contactee tradition if not the UFO phenomenon more generally (Tumminia 2003).
Conclusion
Frankly, to cite Jesus (Matthew 7:26), to put faith in science is to build your house on sand.
Oh, yes, the advances in medical science over the last two centuries have made human life on earth better. Thank God for science!
Yet, this same science has given us atomic bombs along with autonomous lethal drone technology. In short, science is ambiguous.
That is, science is capable of evil to the same extent that it has the potential for good.
This applies to extraterrestrial science as well as terrestrial, I will bet. I guess this means we have only God left in which to put our faith.
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Strange 'red orbs' spotted over New Jersey by plane passenger as drone mystery continues
Updated 09:30, 28 Dec 2024
Strange "red orbs" have been spotted above the eastern US sparking theories as to their origin as the ongoing drone mystery continues.
The red orbs were seen by a passenger travelling to New York's JFK Airport as they passed over New Jersey - where 'drone' sightings have been rampant, baffling residents and sparking conspiracies.
Since the 'drones' were first spotted in the skies, speculation has run rampant as to their origin and purpose in the skies.
Americans have reported seeing mysterious drones and orbs in the skies above New Jersey and the eastern US, while UK residents have also reported seeing heightened 'drone' activity.
One passenger shared video footage on X (Twitter) showing what they described as two "reddish orbs" over New Jersey on Friday night.
User DJNarkatta said: "Saw these two reddish orbs on my way from LV (Las Vegas) to JFK tonight at around 9:30pm looking over NJ.
I am very excited to capture more footage this week."
They explained they used an iPhone 14 Pro to capture the footage, asking whether they could be UAPs, paper lanterns or planes in a landing pattern.
"I've always looked up in the sky with a keen interest in airplanes, and I grew up playing different updated versions of flight simulator.
When things look strange in the sky, I notice. I am very excited to capture more footage this week."
Another clip from user YogurtclosetFlat5701 was shared by conspiracy theory and UFO-enthusiast accounts on X/Twitter.
The strange red orbs were seen hovering in the air above the New York borough of Queens.
The FBI and Homeland Security have previously said the drones do not pose a public safety threat.
But the Federal Aviation Administration earlier this month banned drone flights in 22 areas in New Jersey and in 30 areas of New York where critical infrastructure could be found.
The drones have sparked widespread speculation online and even igniting UFO conspiracy theories in some cases.
It is not the first time footage of orbs was seen from a passing plane this month. F
ootage taken from a passenger flying from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Newark Liberty International fuelled the mystery even more.
Reddit user EasilyAmused, aka Ed, told the Express US: "I started noticing the objects about 20 minutes into the flight and then towards the end of the flight.
The objects show more detail than I noticed with my naked eye."
Belleville Mayor Michael Melham sparked a new theory about the drones, claiming they had been looking for "radioactive material."
He previously told Fox's Good Day New York: "What might they be looking for? Maybe that's radioactive material. It was a shipment.
It arrived at its destination. The container was damaged, and it was empty."
His statement came after the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission earlier this month issued an alert stating a piece of medical equipment used for cancer scans was "lost in transit" on December 2.
The item, an Eckert & Ziegler model HEGL-013, was being shipped from the Nazha Cancer Centre in Newfield in Gloucester County in southern New Jersey.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby recently downplay the significance of the drone sightings. He said:
"We assess that the sightings to date include a combination of lawful commercial drones, hobbyist drones and law enforcement drones, as well as manned fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters and even stars that were mistakenly reported as drones.
"We have not identified anything anomalous or any national security or public safety risk over the civilian airspace in New Jersey or other states in the Northeast, the work continues."
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/new-jersey-drone-sighting-conspiracy-34385214
https://x.com/DjNarkatta
https://x.com/Kobe_for_3/status/1872853686784823412
Former FBI agent EXPOSES the truth of the UFO invasion (one year later) | Redacted
Dec 21, 2024
One year ago on our show, former FBI agent John DeSouza predicted and told us, told the world exactly what was about to happen.
A fake alien invasion, massive amounts of drones or alien craft or something.
We're going to be presented to the United States. And we were meant to then go into a panic mode.
https://www.johntamabooks.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE1iqDC6RN8