Off San Diego, July 2019: the Ships' Logs

Off San Diego, July 2019: the Ships' Logs

In July 2019 the logs and reports of US Navy ships off San Diego recorded drones around them. The CIC log of USS Rafael Peralta has on 15 July at 20:57 “DRONE 1 SPOTTED”, then “BRIDGE VISUALLY SITED [sic] AN EXCESS OF 4 DRONES”, and on 16 July at 01:33 “BRIDGE HOLDS 6 DRONES OFF OF STBD BOW”. A brief of USS Paul Hamilton of 17 July is titled “Interaction with UAS”, and the Navy’s incident database records four drones around the same ship in an incident dated 29 July, three of them “identified visually as quadcopters”. The documents call the objects drones and UAS; none says who flew them: “Point of origin of all UASs is unknown.”

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