Reports: It’s a drone headed to NAS Patuxent
By Thomas Tobin and Carissa DiMargo
| Thursday, Jun 14, 2012 | Updated 9:27 AM EDT
…On Wednesday night, Facebook and Twitter users went wild over sightings of a saucer-shaped vessel being towed on local highways. The buzz called to mind the frenzy in 1947 Roswell, albeit in a much more modern way….
But we can take the “unidentified” out of “unidentified flying object.” (And yes, we realize that it wasn’t actually flying, either.) The military has confirmed to News4 that the 82-foot-long craft is an unmanned military aircraft, known as an X-47B drone.
Maryland State Police towed it on a flatbed trailer from Garrett County, Md., to Naval Air Station Patuxent River — but even they didn’t know what it was at the time, police said….
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