Strange flying objects reported near Arizona Air Force ranges: FAA | NewsNation Prime

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Recent FAA reports confirm that US Air Force pilots have reported numerous encounters with
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strange flying objects, sometimes in swarms in their Arizona training ranges.
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One even struck the canopy of an F-16 Viper jet, damaging the multi-million dollar craft.
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So there was a concern among pilots?
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Safety concerns.
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That there might be a collision with these objects they were seeing.
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Famed former Pentagon UAP investigator,
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Lou Elizondo, who testified to Congress, omlies matters agrees.
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They're seeing something anomalous, aren't they?
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Well, what I could tell you is that there's been a lot of activity, a lot of people reporting a
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lot of things out of Arizona, particularly on the board of...
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Could all these incidents have prosaic explanations? Well, sure. So before wasting our time and yours
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chasing UFOs, we went to chat with an expert on the ground.
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Ali, at long last, lovely to meet you. That's great to meet you.
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News nations border reporter Ali Bradley has her own intel regarding flying objects on the border.
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Drones used by cartels to smuggle drugs or conduct reconnaissance.
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Now we're seeing drones more and more use to be kind of scouting tools to watch border patrol,
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to be the eyes in the sky, if you will, so that they can send individuals over.
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For the past decade, cartels have been using consumer grade drones like this one,
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recovered with over six pounds of myth-emphetamine. But now they're upgrading the fleet.
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The cartel used to use Chinese drones. Very normal. That's what you can buy at the store.
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But they switched over to using French and Russian agricultural drones.
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They can move five to ten kilos of drugs across the border.
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And the biggest issue there is the technology that they're using
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were not able to intercept like we were with the Chinese drones.
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So what do you think? Ali, do you think that what's happening here with the cartels could explain
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the anomalous activity that they're seeing in the military training ranges?
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You know, the cartel wants intel on the United States. That's their MO. That is their number one
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priority. It's always be one step ahead of us. So what better place to do that than to infiltrate
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our military installations in some capacity? Unless you were in a coma in late 2024,
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you know that the mystery drone threat is more than mere speculation.
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For weeks, New Jersey residents were reporting strange aircraft in the area.
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When officials began to investigate, things only got more concerning.
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They don't know where the drones are coming from. They don't know who's doing it.
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They don't know why they're doing it. But they say there's no credible threat.
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The mystery behind these purported drones remains. The military admits it often cannot detect,
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track or down these objects. Defense also recently admitted to one senator,
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it's mystified as to their origin.
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News nations Rich McHugh has his own memorable experience while out reporting the story.
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I think we've seen about 40 or 50 of these drones. In fact, there's one over my shoulder.
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Right there. One after another after another, these drones appeared in the night sky.
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If you look real close, they look like fixed-wing aircraft. About 8 to 10 feet wide, colorful,
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white blinking lights. That is not a plane. Definitely not an airplane, but what was it?
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Ah, the Arizona sightings, similar sophisticated drones. That's what the Defense Departments
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Arrow, the all-domain anomaly resolution office claims. But is that explanation plausible?
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It is fact that UAP often, but not always, resolve into readily explainable sources.
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But are these Arizona videos and all those reports to the FAA so easily explainable?
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There's obviously something going on in Arizona along the border areas, more than just illegal
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immigration. In fact, Bob and Andy are so certain they've submitted the videos to one of the
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country's top scientific groups for analysis. We've analyzed those cases using physics and all the
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