Comments on: US Air Force Confirms ‘Beast of Kandahar’ Drone

By: Dimphilly

Dimphilly — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 06:04:01 +0000

The one I saw was black had no landing gear and had twin props about 3 feet from each wing tip but completely silent. This occurred in Monterey Bay, CA right at 41st aveenue at the surfing spot called The Hook and actually I was at “Sharks” surf spot which is the same wave as the Hook but about 50 yards down the wave peak. It looked like it was only about 3 fieet thick or less. I concluded that it was unmanned because of this thinness. It might have been even thinner. I figured if it had a pilot he would have to have been lying down prone inside and I don’t think it was thick enough for that. I know a 90 year old guy that worked at skunkworks buying wooden props for a UAV that had chainsaw engines and was completely silent and he bought the wooden props from some dude and they also were totally silent. I believe what he described is what I saw.

By: Dimphilly

Dimphilly — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 05:51:58 +0000

I saw one of these beasts while I was surfing in Santa Cruz, CA about 3 years ago or so. The thing was about 500-1.000 altitude and the other guys our there surfing with me all saw it as the wave were between sets at the time. Also what caught our attention af first was a low flying twin engine beechcraft plane that was coming down on it probably to see what it was but the beechcraft had to bank away due to the land cliffs nearby and he would have violated minimum altitude laws as they are lower over land than water as I confirmed with the nearest civilian airport when I reported it about 2 weeks after I saw it. The one I saw was nowhere near the specifications of those given so what I saw might have been something very close but not the Beast. The one I saw looked only about as big as a hang glider and about the same proportions but flat and completely silent. it continued to fly right in over the land.