In 2019, a U.S. Navy destroyer and some other ships off the coast of Los Angeles were illegally

swarmed by what appeared to be drones.

However, they were said to be much too far offshore for this to have been possible.

The UFO community attributes the episode to aliens, in the spirit of all the Pentagon

UFO videos.

Today, we're going to dissect what's known to have actually taken place and critically

examine whether aliens are indeed the most probable explanation.

The USS Kid Incident is up next on Skeptoid.

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I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

The 2019 USS Kid Incident On a series of warm summer nights

off the coast of Southern California, half a dozen ships had a close encounter that raised

alarm bells all the way up the chain of command in the United States Navy.

It began when sailors aboard the USS Kid, an early Burke class destroyer equipped with

the Aegis combat system, spotted what appeared to be a consumer drone, like the one kids might

fly over your neighborhood near their ship.

By itself that's kind of a big deal, it's illegal to fly over or near a Navy ship.

The kid was located about ten times farther out to sea than such drones can go, and the

object stayed around for at least three times as long as drone batteries last.

But where a big deal turned into a gigantic deal was that over the course of at least four

nights, as many as several of these apparently superpowered drones may have been involved,

approaching as many as four US Navy vessels in the area, plus a Carnival Cruise Line ship.

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