UFO “motherships” have been spotted releasing swarms of smaller craft near military bases, a top security official claimed.
Chris Mellon said “numerous national security installations” had been targeted by unidentified flying objects. They made no attempt to hide and “want to be seen as though taunting us”, he added.
Over 17 nights in December of 2023, swarms of noisy small UFOs were seen at dusk ‘moving at rapid speeds’ and displaying ‘flashing red, green, and white lights’ in highly-restricted airspace above Langley Air Force base in Virginia, US.
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It is home to at least half the US’s fleet of F-22 Raptor stealth fighter aircraft. Details of the provocative ‘drone’ incursions were revealed in 50 pages of newly-released US Air Force records which one general dubbed: “Close Encounters at Langley.”
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Mellon, who was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence under US Presidents Bill Clinton and George W Bush, said the episode was “part of a much larger pattern affecting numerous national security installations”.
“Two of the notable aspects are the fact our drone signal-jamming devices have proven ineffective and these craft are making no effort to remain concealed,” he said.
“In fact in some instances it is clear they want to be seen as though taunting us. I make no claims regarding their origin. Perhaps many are Chinese drones?
“But their brazenness, range, flight duration, reliability, resistance to countermeasures and indifference to detection are confounding.
“In some cases ‘motherships’ have been reported.”
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He said they were ‘extremely fast larger vehicles that have been observed collecting or releasing a swarm of smaller craft’.
An eyewitness spotted nine drones in ‘diamond formation’ flying over an aircraft parking and servicing area at Langley. Officials from US space agency NASA’s Langley Research Center were brought in to hunt down and identify the mystery drones using a hi-tech WB-57F surveillance aircraft.
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Similar sightings have been reported at defence contractor Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works in Palmdale, California which made the F-22.
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a separate ‘mothership’ sighting over Nebraska, US, government records show.
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