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Drone mistaken for ‘UFO,’ creates panic on DC highway

WASHINGTON –  People in the D.C. area are buzzing after pictures began popping up online showing what many believed to be a ‘UFO’ in transport along the Capitol Beltway, MyFoxDC reported.

Drone mistaken for ‘UFO,’ creates panic on DC highway
A Northrop Grumman X-47B, shown here, may have been mistaken for a UFO when it was transported on a D.C. highway.

The spotting took place around 11:00 p.m. Wednesday when drivers first saw the craft being hauled on a flatbed truck on I-270, then on I-495.

Maryland State Police confirmed that the strange craft was actually a drone aircraft made by Northrup Grumman that was being transported from West Virginia to Patuxent Naval Air Station in Maryland.

It wasn’t the first time aircraft being transported had been mistaken for ‘UFOs’. Last year, residents of Cowley County, Kansas mistook a similar flying machine.

DefenseTech.org reported last year that engineers practice aircraft carrier take-offs and landings with the drone on a strip of runway at Patuxent that’s painted to resemble a carrier’s flight deck.

 

 

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