The chickens have come home to roost We did this for the ruskies and the Chinese They're returning the favor https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40054/adversary-drones-are-spying-on-the-u-s-and-the-pentagon-acts-like-theyre-ufos > We then got clarification from pilot witnesses on key claims about what they and their squadron mates had experienced before pursuing what was an inconvenient hypothesis for many—that at least some of what these aircrews and vessels were encountering were not an exotic unexplained phenomenon at all, but were in fact adversary drones and lighter-than-air platforms (balloons) meant to stimulate America's most capable air defense systems and collect extremely high-quality electronic intelligence data on them. And also >Traditional espionage is another way adversaries look to gain information on these critical systems, as well, but nothing beats going out and actually sucking up the electronic signatures as best you can. Actually becoming the target of their interest takes the quality of intelligence collected to a whole other level. So the weirder your drone tech, the more hybrid and unique propulsion (were talking about known tech right now, nothing exotic, yet) the more your enemy lights you up to study and classify you: >...in particular, could also look very strange to pretty much anyone who encounters them, even like a cube inside a sphere, or a metallic blimp with strange appendages. In fact, the odder they look, the better the cover for ongoing operations. Putting infrared bricks on drones giving them huge IR signatures or making radar reflector balloons look alien in shape would not only confuse the targeted adversary and likely allow for these operations to go on for far longer unchecked than they would otherwise... Along with a bombshell, final conclusion: >To put it another way, their ambiguous origins and the curiosity surrounding their presence sets up a situation in which they can make radar systems work directly against them without restrictions. Their small radar cross-sections and potentially elusive electronic warfare tactics would push those sensor systems and their operators even harder in order to lock them up, thus giving up even more valuable information. >Once again, the operation involving PALLADIUM during the A-12's development worked not just because they could get radar operators searching for something that wasn't there, but because they gave them hard targets to lock up. It seems that we are seeing history repeat itself, but this time it's the other guys putting on the magic show. What Fravor saw "boiling" the water on the ocean before he saw the 'Tic Tac' UAP, here is my analysis: Russian or Chinese mothership, operating near waters surface, was controlling/deploying 'TicTac' platform to purposefully act weird, be hard to classify and attract attention. When SIGINT collection was satisfied or other parameters either controlled remotely or autonomous, recovered the TicTac, and then projected an EWAR package that the American sensors interpreted as these tic-tac-craft now showing up at their CAP point. The drone more than likely dropped into the ocean to be picked up by its mothership, as most recently shown In the USN video. I've loved UFOs, saucers, aliens, abductions, ever since I saw a picture in a book when I was 9. Sadly, these aren't it, chief.