Um... probably not, actually.
I haven't written about this yet, because honestly. The first time I heard about it I rolled my eyes and didn't even click through to read the article. The likelihood that people spotted a UFO being trailered through Kansas - and not a military drone - was, in my estimation, approximately zero point zero zero percent.
But seriously, folks, this story will not die! It just popped up on my news feed from a supposedly reputable source. The military has officially announced that no, it wasn't a UFO, it was a military drone.
BUT THEY WOULD SAY THAT, WOULDN'T THEY?
Here are the facts: earlier this week, residents of Cowley County in Kansas were treated to the spectacle of an oddly-shaped object sitting atop a trailer flatbed. The object was 32 feet long, was shrouded in a gray industrial tarp, and was being towed down Interstate 77.
Unfortunately for the driver, it was also about 30 feet wide - too wide for the roadway. This meant that the county sheriff's department had to go along and take down all the road signs in its way, then put those signs back up after the object passed. Local law enforcement couldn't say what it was, but one of them "let slip" that it was a military drone that had been manufactured by defense contractor and aerospace manufacturer Northrop Grumman.
For anyone who has ever seen a picture of a military drone, this all sounds about right. I was particularly exasperated by the media hype given that at the very same time we are being treated to pictures and digital recreations of military drones on the news. No one who watches the news, and has seen one of the stories about our captured spy drone that went down in Iran, should be taken aback by the object which was towed through Kansas. IT LOOKS JUST LIKE THE THING YOU SAW FIVE MINUTES AGO ON TV.
But hey, who ever lets the facts get in the way of a good story, right?
Honestly, if the military ever did capture a crashed UFO, I sincerely doubt they would tow it through Kansas on a flatbed truck in the middle of the day. For one thing, the military has plenty of cargo planes they can use for this sort of transportation. For another thing, if they were going to drive it through town, I'm sure they would at least put it in a box to shield it from prying eyes.
Or is that what they are counting on? Maybe the military really is hiding a UFO in plain sight!
Nah, probably not.