US Military Surveillance After Federal Agents Take Control of Tohono O'odham Nation

US Army surveillance over the Tohono O'odham Nation, at 3:50 am on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026

US Military Surveillance After Federal Agents Take Control of Tohono O'odham Nation

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, September 23, 2026

The flight patterns of US military aircraft over the Tohono O'odham Nation leave questions unanswered.

The question is: With military surveillance from the air, and 10 spy towers built by Israel's Elbit Systems on tribal land -- why are so many migrants left to die on the Tohono O'odham Nation. Are the expensive surveillance systems failing, or is the United States involved in a crime against humanity.

The spy towers, integrated fixed towers, provide the US Border Patrol with live video surveillance of the border and interior of tribal land. Each tower provides surveillance, even at night, for seven miles out.

At the same time, masked and armed federal agents took control of tribal land and prevented Tohono O'odham tribal police from entering their sovereign land to issue citations for trespass to border wall contractors. The border wall contractors immediately began drilling.

The U.S. violated a federal judge's order which required the U.S. to consult and cooperate with the Tohono O'odham Nation before proceeding with the border wall construction.

The Bizarre Flight Pattern of the Army's Mystery Aircraft over the Tohono O'odham Nation Border, with trips to the Middle East, Mexico and Brazil. The aircraft is based at the US Army's Fort Huachuca, southeast of Tucson.

The US Army's mystery aircraft flew along the border and to the O'odham ceremonial place in Santa Ana, Mexico.

This aircraft went twice to United Arab Emirates in the middle east. It went from Yuma on the California border in Arizona to El Paso on the New Mexico border, which includes the Tohono O'odham Nation.

It also went to Santa Ana, Mexico, a place of ceremony for O'odham, and north of the tourist spot Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

It is shown as a helicopter, but it had to be a drone to be in the air that long, or a new type of aircraft being tested. Its base of operations appeared in the playback, it was from the Army's Fort Huachuca southeast of Tucson at Sierra Vista. The call letters are from a plane no longer registered.

The various colors of the flight's path shows various elevations.

The mystery flight on Sept. 14, 2026

It's back. The aircraft with a bizarre flight path, out of the army base at Fort Huachuca has a new call sign for part of its time in the air. It flipped back and forth over the past couple of days, showing the other call sign, Test01Z, which is actually an unregistered plane.

Earlier, on one flight, it showed two trips to United Arab Emirates in the middle east, a path all along the Arizona and New Mexico border, and two flights into Mexico -- all in one trip. The new call sign is for a "drone detector" aircraft.

The mystery flight on Sept. 15, 2026

The mystery plane, one more time. The bizarre flight of this aircraft continues. The path out of the US Army's Fort Huachuca yesterday included the treesit in Lochiel, the Arizona border, including the Tohono O'odham Nation border, and a midday flight to Sao Paulo, Brazil.

The aircraft uses at least two call signs, one to an unregistered plane.

Meanwhile, east of the Tohono O'odham Nation, the tree sitter crew at Lochiel, Arizona, continues to stop border wall construction. Standing in front of an enormous bulldozer on a high mountain peak on the border, a land defender halted border wall construction. The US Border Patrol came and left, as did the dozer's driver. O'odham women have joined the land defenders and halted border wall construction here, east of Nogales, Arizona, and southeast of Tucson.

Courtesy photo land defenders at Lochiel, Arizona

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