Possible UFO in Kansas mystery solved

Residents of Cowley County, Kansas caused a sensation last week when they captured video of the military towing a concealed object on a flatbed truck down US Highway 77. It wasn't long before a wave of speculation hit, claiming the object was a UFO.

Depending on the angle from which you spotted it, the 30 foot-wide mysterious craft appeared to be saucer-shaped. It was so large that local law enforcement had to remove roadside signage so it could pass through. But it was covered in a tightly concealed tarp, making any further examination impossible.

However, as Gizmodo points out, the craft does not technically meet the definition of UFO. For starters, even if it were an alien craft, the object was not flying. And more important, it's no longer unidentified.


Local sheriff Don Read announced that the tarp was in fact covering a flying object, but one of decidedly Earthly origins. More specifically, it was a drone aircraft manufactured by Northrop Grumman. After Read's disclosure, Northrop Grumman senior manager of public relations Brooks McKinney stepped forward to provide more details, telling Life's Little Mysteries that the "UFO" is a X-47B unmanned combat drone designed to operate from aircraft carriers. It was headed to the Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland.



The X-47B unmanned drone (NorthropGrumman.com)

Drone technology, or Unmanned Systems (UMS) have become so commonplace, that Northrop Grumman has a section dedicated to them on its public website. There's even a page for the X-47B itself.

"Clearly people are interested in what's going through town. It's unusual to see a shrink-wrapped aircraft, especially one with that shape," McKinney said.

"We built two for the Navy, they were being tested at Edwards Air Force Base [in California] since March. One is on its way to Maryland, and the other will remain in California."

And the reason they weren't actually flying the high-tech aircraft was even simpler. "It's difficult to fly an unmanned drone through commercial airspace," McKinney said.

Finally, the question "What's the matter with Kansas?" can be answered: A painful lack of alien spaceships.

Did Socialist-Wannabe Obama Really Say That Capitalism Doesn’t Work ???

Well, well, well. Barack Obama – for the most part – has refrained from coming right out and saying that free markets and individualism are failed concepts. Sure, he’s railed endlessly against “greedy corporations” and “the rich” not paying their “fair share,” but he’s never actually said publicly that capitalism and individualism don’t work - until now.

In his class-warfare speech in Osawatomie, Kansas last week, our socialist-wannabe president finally dropped all pretenses of believing in individual achievement, free enterprise and American capitalism. Karl Marx would be proud.

Yep, according to Comrade Obama, capitalism is a theory that has “never worked.” He ludicrously argues that its appeal “can’t be justified by results,” and that its popularity is based on America’s preference for an economic ideology that “fits well on a bumper sticker.” (Kinda like “yes we can” and “hope and change.”)

Dude might have claimed to be channeling Teddy Roosevelt in his divisive speech, but he sounded a hell of a lot more like Hugo Chavez to the Rat.

Obama seems to feel that capitalism speaks to the flaw of America’s core – and to a false sense of decency. He mocks individualism while hinting at a zero-sum game; an unfair game where individual achievement creates an unwarranted skepticism of the benefits of government. As is always the case on Planet Obama, evil corporations and the rich have exploited the poor and the middle class mercilessly – all for their own selfish gains.

One would think that if any of Obama’s three “achievements” over the past three years – ObamaCare, a dramatic increase in corporate regulation, and his self-proclaimed “stimulus” plan – had been successful in the least, this class warfare warrior would be touting his non-capitalist victories vs. simply tearing down capitalism itself.

God knows Dear Leader doesn’t shy away from self-aggrandizement.

HT~ The Constitution Club