US military officials were disconcerted by a strange parade of unidentifiable drones flying over an Air Force base — and nobody, including the president, knew what to do about them.
As the Wall Street Journal reports, strange drone sightings over the Langley Air Force Base triggered weeks of meetings last December.
During those meetings, everyone from the Defense Department to the FBI and even the Pentagon's UFO office joined in to figure out what was going on, and it does not seem like discussions got very far.
According to officials who spotted the bizarre flyers that plagued the base over 17 days, they would often appear around dusk and be seen flying off and returning. Some had small lights that shone like stars over the base.
It was, according to General Mark Kelly — no relation to the astronaut-turned-senator — a sci-fi-esque series of incidents to witness, causing him to give the debacle the nickname "'Close Encounters at Langley.'"
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