CHANNEL ISLANDS一 In July 2019 several U.S. Destroyers were swarmed by a group of unidentified drones, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, several times near Channel Islands.
Dave Beaty, a documentary filmmaker, uncovered the initial details of the event in 2020.
“Did the navy ship #USSKidd #DDG100 encounter a UAP in July 2019 in SoCal OPAREA Trying to find out more,” said Beaty in a June 8, 2020, tweet. “The ship logs indicate a “Snoopy Team” was deployed – an intel section that tries to visually ID objects. DM if you know more. Near San Clemente island #TicTac @UfoJoe11.”
After Beaty’s tweet, a group of reporters at The Drive began submitting Freedom of Information Act requests that resulted in a huge release of documents that included deck logs and hundreds of gigabytes of locational data that showed where the ships were when the flyovers took place, according to an April 1 article from UAV Coach.
The paperwork showed that the USS Kidd, USS Rafael Peralta, USS John Finn, and the USS Paul Hamilton were in a training exercise in a military area 100 miles off of Los Angeles, according to a March 23 article from The Drive.
Around 10 p.m. on July 14 the lookouts on the USS...