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For six days in March 2026, waves of custom-built drones penetrated Barksdale Air Force Base – home to B-52 nuclear bombers and Global Strike Command – during active combat operations against Iran. The military couldn't stop them.
Berlin Brandenburg Airport suspended all flights for 38 minutes after air traffic control spotted an unidentified luminous object near a military helicopter hangar. Police found nothing. It's the latest in a cascade of drone-related airport closures across Europe that governments are blaming on Russia.
From November through December 2024, mysterious nighttime lights over New Jersey triggered an FBI investigation, an airport shutdown, military base incursions, and a congressional firestorm – but officials said most sightings were just planes and stars.
AARO's FY2024 annual report catalogs 757 UAP cases, resolves most as drones and balloons, flags 21 for deeper analysis – and says it found no evidence of extraterrestrial technology.
In December 2023, waves of unidentified drones penetrated restricted airspace over one of America's most important air bases – forcing F-22s to relocate and exposing a gap in the nation's ability to defend its own installations.