The Langley Drone Incursions

For seventeen days, the tellings say, unauthorised drones hovered above the F-22 hangars at Langley and none was shot down. Dozens came each night after dusk. One telling puts each at about the size of a car. One describes a lawnmower-like sound and a possible mothership. Another says the F-22s were relocated for fear of losing them. The public record describes some of the drones as about twenty feet long and flying at about a hundred miles an hour. It also notes a larger lead object in some reports.

The incursions began on 6 December 2023 over Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Hampton, Virginia.

What is on the record

This case is better documented than most in the archive. The Pentagon confirmed the incursions. The FBI, the Department of Defense and AARO held meetings about them. The Wall Street Journal and CBS were among the outlets that reported them. The archive holds seven documents, all journalism from one outlet, Liberation Times. These count as reporting rather than as corroboration.

Some tellings say similar incursions happened at Norfolk and over Washington. The public record treats Langley as the primary location and the Norfolk and D.C. mentions as secondary reports.

Three claimants are resolved: Jonathan Butner, a fisherman and a local witness. None of the tellings rests on a named eyewitness account of its own.

The official position is that the objects were drones and that they remain unidentified. One guest in the archive's tellings declines to say whether they were extraterrestrial or man-made. No operator has been publicly attributed.

Why it sits where it does

The case grades L3, but its weight lies mostly outside the archive, in a confirmed military incursion reported by major outlets. The archive does not hold those government statements as documents. What flew over Langley, and who sent it, is not resolved here.