“Drones”

[bigfurmn]

I'm just going to guess it's the govt trying to find another way to tax us on the oxygen we use in our sleep. I don't care who is in charge, everyone who spends too much time in DC seems to lose their minds.

 

[cptnding]

Maybe so, but if so, why did the deny their existence to begin with? And then after their existence was obvious they spun a big yarn about what they actually were? So why in the world did they not just say at the beginning that they were “research” drone? Why the lies?

Exactly.
Remember the "spy balloons" from China?
Turned out the government watched them from takeoff, across the ocean, through Canada, and the across the US. And acted like it was a big surprise.
Again. Why the lies?

 

[chef k-dude]

Pretty cool job.

We now live not far from a submarine base that the US Navy has maintained in landlocked Idaho since 1946. It's their Acoustic Development Research Center, in Bayview Idaho, on the southern end of Lake Pend Oreille.

https://spokanehistorical.org/items/show/589

Before buying a home on nearby Hayden Lake, we had actually looked at one on the steep hill directly above the base. The deck looked down on a whole lot of security...

The base is where the navy does advanced sonar research and development, using a fleet thought to consist of 7 reduced-size (though still big!) subs, thought to be unmanned. The lake is 1150 feet deep, over 40 miles long, and very quiet, especially at night when the recreational boat traffic essentially stops. Plus, when the 'secret' base was expanding during the Cold War, I can just imagine Navy brass thinking: 'Lets see the Soviets try and get a spy trawler in here!'

During WWII, the Farragut Naval Training Station outside of Bayview trained almost 300,000 sailers in the 30 months it was operational. I presume many of those Idaho-trained sailors had never seen an ocean until they were deployed. Farragut is now a very cool 4,000 acre state park.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farragut_Naval_Training_Station

Yep, if they trained on a lake, except one of the great lakes, they probably never experienced sea sickness until it was "trial by fire". Sea sickness is one of those things...once it sets in, its got you till you are back on terra firma for like 3 days!

One of our jobs with the ROV sub was inspecting those hydrophone arrays off the coasts of places like Andros Island Bahamas, St. Croix and Kauai. On shore, they had 3-D displays the data fed that showed all the vessels in the range. This was late 80's, Imagine what they have now

I have yet to find a conspiracy theorist who also has thorough experience as a project manager. Trying to get twelve people on the same page is hard enough. Involving hundreds, across multiple agencies, while also maintaining secrecy? I feel like any successfully secret government projects remained so only because those groups tasked with uncovering the evidence were plagued by similar dysfunction.

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You just found one. Ex Project manager as well as ex business owner.

Having worked clandestine for DOD, I can assure you...conspiracies exist. They built RICO law just for them.

Maybe so, but if so, why did the deny their existence to begin with? And then after their existence was obvious they spun a big yarn about what they actually were? So why in the world did they not just say at the beginning that they were “research” drone? Why the lies?

They're not lies as much as "need to know". I dont necessarily trust governments like the U.S., but there is a LOT of stuff that goes on that people are clueless about. This one was pretty obvious and how they didn't have a clean cover story for it is what baffles me. Usually the powers that be have a script ready to go...a story-line if you will. The System messed up and didn't have one teed up for this for some reason. The only other explanation is they actually wanted it to be a psy-op.

This recent "non-explanation" by a new administration, essentially saying almost the same as the last, is proof this was something only those that "need to know"...need to know. It's too late for the cover story now, they just told us, "you dont need to know"...again.