Was UFO towed down Kansas street? The truth is out there
A few days ago, a "UFO" was spotted cruising down a main street in Cowley County, Kansas. It wasn't in the skies, but instead being hauled on a flatbed truck driving down the middle of US Highway 77.
From at least one angle, the strange-shape aircraft resembled a saucer, and was covered by what appeared to be an industrial-strength tarp (or perhaps a badly malfunctioning cloaking device).
The vehicle, at about 30 feet across, was so big that local law enforcement had to remove roadside signs to allow safe passage — as well as some measure of security. Many locals suspected (or at least joked) that that it might have been a UFO or some top-secret aircraft. Local sheriff Don Read said he was not allowed to divulge much about the mysterious craft, though he did let slip the detail that it was not recovered at a crash site, but rather had been manufactured by the aerospace company Northrop Grumman.
Yet many people wondered why, if it was a known craft (even a secretive one), wouldn't the company simply fly the craft to its destination. Perhaps it needed repair or maintenance; but if so, wouldn't it be easier to bring the mechanics and parts to the aircraft, instead of taking it to the nation's highways? Speculation ran rampant, fueled by YouTube videos and news reports about the strange sight. [ Hunter Captures UFO in Nevada ]
Newspaper reporters, erroneously, called them "flying saucers." "The phrase 'flying saucers,' which are assumed to be round like a saucer, spread so quickly that people began seeing not what he saw but what the reporters had misdescribed," Oberg said.
This wasn`ta Steven Spielberg flick about extraterrestrials, this was an honest-to-goodness flying saucer being towed in broad daylight. Not really, according to the sheriff it was a drone aircraft manufactured by Northrop Grumman.