UFOs spotted near the destroyers USS Kidd (pictured), USS Rafael Peralta, and USS John Finn in July 2019
Nearly two years ago, several mysterious drones (or UFOs) hovered over three U.S. Navy destroyers off the coast of Southern California for several days. On Monday (April 5), a senior Navy official revealed that where these mysterious drones came from is still a mystery.
Senior U.S. Navy officials said the Navy has yet to discover the mystery after drones of unknown origin reportedly swarmed near three U.S. destroyers off the coast of Southern California in July 2019.
Secretary of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday was asked by reporters Monday if the Navy has identified the USS Kidd, USS Rafael Peralta and USS John Finn destroyers near which the The source of the unidentified flying object.
“No, we don’t have one,” Gilday said.
Admiral: No indication of alien activity
The Drive reported that Gilday said, “I’m aware of these sightings, and there have been reported sightings of other pilots and other shipboard personnel, and there have been sightings not only in the United States, but in other countries, and certainly other personnel within the U.S. Joint Staff (of sightings).”
“Information on those sightings has been collected and is still being analyzed.” He said.
Gilday added that there is “no indication” that the mystery planes are alien.
“I don’t have anything new to report on what these findings have revealed so far,” he reported, as quoted by The Drive.
“But I will tell you that we have a well-established process throughout the Joint Staff to collect this data and save it in a separate repository for analysis.” Gildy said.
The Drive previously reported, based on Navy logs obtained, that as many as six drones hovered over the destroyers as they conducted military exercises in waters about 100 miles off the coast of Los Angeles.
A July 14, 2019, article reported “Child reports Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) incident.”
Another eyewitness report said, “White light indicates UAV hovering over cockpit.”
A separate entry in the USS Rafael Peralta’s logbook reported, “Two UAVs were spotted from the starboard wing.” Six minutes later the log followed up with a report that “(Four more) drones were spotted over the starboard wing.”
The report added that as of the drones’ disappearance, the Navy ship was unable to track them.
Mystery drones have a much greater range than the average small drone
Forbes.com reported a more detailed sighting on March 24 of this year. The report said that at 10 p.m. local time on July 14, 2019, monitors aboard the destroyer USS Kidd spotted two drones, which the crew described in their logs as “unmanned aerial vehicles” (UAVs), but provided no details.
Ten minutes later, the crew of the USS Rafael Peralta and the USS John Finn also saw them. During this time, the ships were performing some form of silent radio communication with minimal traffic, a common practice during exercises that makes it difficult for electronic eavesdroppers to detect the ships.
The ship’s logs show that the drones followed the Kidd and at some point matched the destroyer’s speed and bearing, with one of the drones hovering above the helipad in a sighting that lasted about ninety minutes. The mystery drones have a much longer range than smaller drones, which typically have a half-hour range.
Eventually, the drone took off, and although the destroyers had an advanced sensor array that included radar, thermal imaging, equipment that could detect electro-optical systems in the dark, and could detect and locate radio transmitters, they were unable to determine the mystery drone’s whereabouts.
The mystery drone reappeared the next night and lasted for three hours.
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