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Military explains Beltway UFO sighting

Bluefield Daily Telegraph

WASHINGTON — The nation’s capitol is already known for its heavy traffic, but even seasoned D.C. motorists were surprised when what looked like a UFO joined them on the Beltway.

Images of what looked like a classic flying saucer being hauled on a trailer flowed across the Internet soon after it was sighted June 13, according to MSNBC. The tractor trailer hauled the aircraft from Garrett County, Md. to Naval Air Station Patuxent River.

Military officials soon revealed that the strange craft was not a crashed UFO, but the new X-47B — an unmanned drone designed to take off and land on aircraft carriers. In the coming months, the drone will be flying over the base and the surrounding area along the Chesapeake Bay.

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"Beltway UFO" has DC Talking

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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