This week’s report of a downed US pilot’s encounter with “jellyfish drones” in the skies over Iran set off a vigorous defense debate — and foreshadows future dangers.
A source told CNN that the F-15 pilot described seeing “multiple drones interconnected and moving as one, with smaller drones below the bigger drones like legs” before the jet crashed near the Zagros Mountains.
“Real alien sh-t,” as the pilot put it.
But experts are divided about what exactly the pilot saw, and whether it represents a new type of threat.
The description is highly reminiscent of previous sightings of what looked like giant aerial jellyfish over both Iraq and Afghanistan.
One of these, filmed near Al Taqaddum Air Base in Iraq in 2017, was originally reported as a UFO — but a Pentagon investigation concluded that it was a cluster of metallic balloons.
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