Summary

Unidentified drones were recently spotted over the US air base in Ramstein, Germany, and facilities belonging to German arms maker Rheinmetall, according to Der Spiegel.

Similar sightings occurred earlier in Brunsbüttel, with some officials suspecting Russian espionage, though no evidence has been confirmed.

The US Air Force stated the Ramstein base experienced “no impacts” and is monitoring the airspace with German authorities.

This follows reports of drone sightings in New Jersey and at UK air bases, which US authorities say do not currently pose a national security threat.

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    6 days ago

    So far I have read reports of drones or other “UFOs” over the Capitol, off the Oregon coast, in New Jersey, and now over a U.S. air base. The article about the Oregon UFOs theorized that they were starlink satellite flares. Am I being a conspiracy theorist or is this weird? If it’s our friend Leon, what would be the point? Intimidation?

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      6 days ago

      Yeeeah…there’s been a lot of drone reports from a wide enough area now that I’m starting to get paranoid as well.

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        6 days ago

        Even Magic The Gathering is tweeting about the government drones. Usually I ignore her but… I don’t know, this is all so much.

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    7 days ago

    I imagine the drones are some product launch by amazon or some delivery service-- or some idiotic stunt by Elon Musk. The amateurish and ineffectual buzz manufacturing has Musk written all over it.

    The fact that the government knows its not a threat means they know exactly what it is and just dont feel like telling us. I hope people remember later that this nonsense went down on bidens watch.

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    8 days ago

    It kinda sounds like something that leads to a threat when put together like that

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      8 days ago

      You can make anything look like a threat if you frame it correctly.

      Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action–but this only applies if they’re related. Thousands of people are flying drones around all kinds of places every day.

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        8 days ago

        Heuristics are hackable. If your heuristic is “once is happenstance” then your enemy can just conduct their operations once and you’ll never recognize it.z

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    8 days ago

    My wife is not into metal, but she took her brother to a Rammstein concert in the 90s and said it was absolutely amazing, so I’m not surprised they’ve incorporated drones into the act.

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      6 days ago

      They also had a bit of a scandal around alleged sexual assault, and coersion of sex from fans semi-recently. Big in German media, probably less so internationally. Great shows, but I’m not willing to give them any more money.