{"id":265656,"date":"2021-03-20T15:15:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T19:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=265656"},"modified":"2021-03-20T15:16:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T19:16:06","slug":"air-force-drone-washes-ashore-on-southern-fla-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/air-force-drone-washes-ashore-on-southern-fla-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force drone washes ashore on Southern Fla. beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fair-force-drone-washes-ashore-on-southern-fla-beach%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=265656&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2389626\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2389626\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FARNBOROUGH, ENGLAND \u2013 JULY 16: A BQM-167 high-performance remote-controlled aerial target drone used by the U.S. Air Force was displayed on day four of the Farnborough International Airshow on July 16, 2014 in Farnborough, England. (Photo by Dan Kitwood\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 12:15 PM PT \u2013 Saturday, March 20, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Beachgoers in Southern Florida were met with a surprise after a military drone washed ashore.<\/p>\n<p>According to authorities in Boynton Beach on Friday morning, an Air Force drone washed up on the beach after it was shot down as part of a training exercise over the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">US Air Force Personnel Rush To Florida\u2019s Palm Beach To Recover A Washed-Away BQM-167A Drone<\/p>\n<p>20ft long drone was found by passer by on the north end of Ocean Ridge Hammock Park, south of West Palm Beach<\/p>\n<p>Indicating the possibility of a target exercise carried out by a fighter jet <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fvg9A2mUfu\">pic.twitter.com\/fvg9A2mUfu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \ud83d\udc41\ufe0f\ud83c\uddf0\u1d43\u1d43\u02e1\u1d43_\ud83c\uddf3\u1d43\u1d4d\ud83d\udc41\ufe0fReports\u2622\ufe0f (@Kaala_Nag) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kaala_Nag\/status\/1373338183014944776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>An Air Force spokeswoman from the 53rd Wing said these crafts typically fall into the ocean and are not dangerous to the public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not quite as random as you might think, there is nothing dangerous in it, nothing concerning,\u201d 1st Lt. Savanah Bray said. \u201cLike I said, we recover these on a regular basis and sometimes we\u2019re just unable to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She went on to explain the drone may have washed ashore due to bad weather, which could have caused its parachute recovery system to fail.<\/p>\n<p>By the afternoon, authorities were able to retrieve the drone and passersby were allowed to return to the shore.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/calif-driver-arrested-after-allegedly-crashing-into-pedestrians\/\">Calif. Driver Arrested After Allegedly Crashing Into Pedestrians<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FARNBOROUGH, ENGLAND \u2013 JULY 16: A BQM-167 high-performance remote-controlled aerial target drone used by the U.S. Air Force was displayed on day four of the Farnborough International Airshow on July &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2275754,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2275754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}