There has been in recent news a US Navy nuclear submarine incident in the South China Sea. The USS Connecticut was said to have struck an underwater object, damaging the nose of the sub. Only minor crew injuries were reported and the sub made its way to the US Naval base port in Guam.
The incident has raised many questions, especially from the Chinese who have demanded answers as to what happened.
To take a deeper dive into this entire incident, I recommend you check out Just_Human’s live stream on Twitch discussing it (but if you do, be sure to head on back here to check out what I’ve dug up!!!):
Okay, got all that? I know, it was a long discussion - but fun, right?
READY TO SEE WHAT I GOT?
This may actually end up being a series of several articles, but let’s start with what might have been the mission of this sub, why China is insistent on an “explanation,” and why the sub seems to be completely intact except for the loss of its nose cone covering.
Boeing Has Patented a Plasma Force Field 2015
How wild is that? I stumbled across some information about some highly advanced technology that our military might have been developing for some time and actually have in testing and/or in use. This is jaw-dropping, better than “Meet George Jetson” kind of stuff.
Even better than the fantasy of speculation of what our military might someday accomplish is the actual findings that have been right under our nose!
Then there was the entire, teary afternoon I spent down a rabbit hole when I found a decades-old report from a lab my dad used to work at back in the day of our usual long-running joke from the time I was little:
“How was work, dad? Anything exciting?”
“I could tell you Jo-jo, but then I’d have to hire someone to kill you and I just don’t want to have to spend the money.”
Shiny things and old memories. But yes, we will eventually be visiting that lab report from Livermore in future installments of this series.
For now, we are jumping to an article written in 2019 about encounters that were had by navy pilots from 2004 through 2015. This is going to lead us to a patent from . . . . 1945!
Could Some of The UFOS Navy Pilots are Encountering be Airborne Radar Reflectors?
From the above-linked article on multiple UFO sightings of what appeared to be stationary balloons, beach-ball size, with a cube mysteriously suspended inside of it.
This was actually sounding like some kind of reflective radar. The writer said: “After searching sporadically over a number of days for what I envisioned, I found just that in U.S. Patent #2,463,517, titled "Airborne Corner Reflector."
This 1945 patent describes an ability for this to be packed into a small space (like the nose of a sub). It outlines that being able to launch it from a submarine—especially a submerged one—would be highly beneficial. How about that?
The article goes on to say that today’s submarines can release canisters to the surface deploying aerial drones. It is even possible that balloons could be released from very shallow depths without the use of a canister of any type and that there is even a historic precedent for clandestine operations where submarines launched balloons carrying radar reflectors as part of intelligence gathering operations.
Modern submarines have highly advanced electronic intelligence gathering capabilities. But the author points out that they don't really have a way to stimulate enemy air defenses organically in order to record these emissions and the communications that go along with them without surfacing. Being able to deploy balloons with various sized radar reflectors while submerged could be a relatively low tech, but highly effective way of doing this.
NOTE THIS —> “By sneaking in or near enemy territory, releasing these devices under the right weather conditions, and raising their low-observable electronic intelligence gathering masts; they could theoretically improve the quality of the intelligence gathered remarkably.”
AND —> “Leveraging space-based capabilities is also another possibility.”
How about if our Navy’s “Airborne Corner Reflector” balloon communication ability was deployed with the help of Space Force in conjunction with Elon Musk’s thousands of Star-Link WiFi Satellites? There have been several articles discussing testing and contracts between the DOD and Elon Musk. The most recent below discusses a test slated for April was being postponed to September:
SpaceX Starlink Project Examines Military Potential
So might the USS Connecticut have been lurking down in the South China Sea, spying on communications of the CCP? It’s not a stretch to think the StarLink test that was postponed to September was not completed until October 2nd.
Was the test the launching of information via an Airborne Radar Reflector balloon that was compactly stored within the nose compartment at the front of the sub to communicate the data via StarLink back to a command central location?
Was the entire nose cover unfortunately lost? Or the nose cover was meant to be dropped off and left behind - and the mission was successful. Perhaps that’s all that China found. A sub nose cover. But they KNEW there had to be something more going on because that submarine nose cover was undented, completely intact, and seemed to be made to be ejected. How frustrating a find that must have been!
I have no proof that this is what happened. What I do have is a patent. Navy sightings. A postponed DOD test of StarLink. And a “crashed” USS Connecticut docked in Guam without a nose cover and no other visible damage.
There’s a whole bunch more of mind blowing technology to share in future installments. Buckle up space cowboys. We are going there.
This is quite interesting!
I like the way you speculate!