Tucson Police Helicopter Chased Eerily Similar Craft Five Years Before Recent Mystery Drone Incident
An official report details a mystery drone encounter near Davis Monthan Air Force Base in 2016 nearly identical to the one in 2021.
An official report details a mystery drone encounter near Davis Monthan Air Force Base in 2016 nearly identical to the one in 2021.
Records released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection may help lay some of the more out-of-this-world theories about the incident to rest.
FAA audio from an encounter between law enforcement helicopters and a strange aircraft highlights the confusion during and after the incident.
We obtained the Tucson Police Department report that shows its helicopter crew was baffled by the “drone” they pursued earlier this year.
The drone was first detected near an energy storage facility across from Davis-Monthan AFB before evading two pursuing law enforcement helicopters.
The mystery drone flew up to 14,000 feet and was tracked for over an hour. Now the FBI is investigating.
The Customs and Border Protection helicopter buzzed the pleasure boat before performing a breathtaking about-face maneuver.
The agency has three of these helicopters assigned to a Virginia-based unit with a somewhat murky mission.
The controversial decision is almost certain to prompt challenges from Congress and in the courts and risks escalating a complex situation.
The tests laid out very specific parameters for the participants to follow and did not result in “pass/fail” scores for any of the prototypes.