Is An Unidentified Object On A Flatbed A UFO?

Kinda looks like the center section of a B2 Spirit to me. Maybe it is a prototype or scaled down version of one of the next gen pilot-less aircraft that the military is looking into so that we are only risking machines and not people when we decide to drop a few bombs that they figure they can safely put through its paces in the wide open spaces of the Kansas prairie? How close is McConnell to this town? Anyone know?

I believe the county is near Wichita - home to a major, thriving, aviation contracting industry.

outdoor338 wrote: What do you call a flying saucer that isn't flying?

That's what residents of Cowley County, Kan. are asking themselves after a mysterious 32-foot-long shrouded object that closely resembled sci-fi depictions of UFOs rolled down US 77 on a flatbed truck.

"There was this funny sphere that went through on this big trailer and my first thought was, 'That looks like a UFO'," Kammi Root told ABC-7.

The UFO -- in this case an unidentified freight object -- was so big that police had to remove signs so it could turn a corner, Sheriff Don Read told the station.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/2 ... d%3D121982

Evidently no one READS what they have linked to... the explanation is right in the article... "In fact, it's one of two X-47B drones being shipped from California to Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland, according to the military news website." Go back and read the article carefully. Is everyone stuck on stupid?

Driving through Nebraska once, I passed a convoy of no less than 50 vehicles, all painted flat black with dark tinting and not one letter anywhere on any vehicle. Cars, trucks, semis, jeeps, panel vans, all kind of vehicles. We didn't take any pictures because it didn't seem like a good idea to. They were going 10 mph under the speed limit, so passing them was pretty quick.

Were they accompanied by a black helicopter providing cover for the convoy?

The Liberals GOP Twin wrote: Evidently no one READS what they have linked to... the explanation is right in the article... "In fact, it's one of two X-47B drones being shipped from California to Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland, according to the military news website." Go back and read the article carefully. Is everyone stuck on stupid?

In my defense, I only skimmed the first of the 7 pages. I usually feel in need of a shower if I spend more than a couple of minutes on that site.

PrintSmith wrote:

The Liberals GOP Twin wrote: Evidently no one READS what they have linked to... the explanation is right in the article... "In fact, it's one of two X-47B drones being shipped from California to Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland, according to the military news website." Go back and read the article carefully. Is everyone stuck on stupid?

In my defense, I only skimmed the first of the 7 pages. I usually feel in need of a shower if I spend more than a couple of minutes on that site.

What do you mean the "first of seven pages"? That quote "In fact, it's one of two X-47B drones being shipped from California to Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland, according to the military news website" was in the body of the article itself... on page ONE? There's nothing mysterious about this at all. The only mystery is why Huffington Post framed the article the way they did AND why everyone on 285 Bound missed the facts?

UFO's, Bigfoot, Lock Ness Monster, god... it's no wonder that people believe some of the crap they believe. Mystical thinking short circuiting reality and common sense.

When your mood sours, does your comprehension sour as well? I admitted that I only skimmed the first of the seven pages due to my aversion overall to that particular site. Regardless of whether the information was on page 1 or page 7, it was missed during my skim of the text that was there. The point which huffpo wished to make regarding their opinion of the intelligence of Kansas residents was clear enough to be understood, don't you think? One of the many reasons that spending any time there instills in me a feeling of needing a shower.

PrintSmith wrote: When your mood sours, does your comprehension sour as well? I admitted that I only skimmed the first of the seven pages due to my aversion overall to that particular site. Regardless of whether the information was on page 1 or page 7, it was missed during my skim of the text that was there. The point which huffpo wished to make regarding their opinion of the intelligence of Kansas residents was clear enough to be understood, don't you think? One of the many reasons that spending any time there instills in me a feeling of needing a shower.

My mood is always sour, so don't use that as an excuse that you missed the whole answer to the "mystery" right in the text of the article itself, on page one. That's clever (NOT), trying to use my mood to explain your inadequacies.

(first page of article)

In fact, it's one of two X-47B drones being shipped from California to Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland, according to the military news website.

Question though --- The Navy usually transports drones in C-130 aircraft (they fit --- the drone has a modest 20 foot wing span).

Why send it across the country on a truck bed - requiring local officials to close roads, change power lines, etc?