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September 24, 2026

Bizarre Flights Above Tohono O'odham Nation: US Military Claims it is Eliminating Enemy Drones


One type of drone used above the southern border.

Bizarre Flights Above Tohono O'odham Nation: US Military Claims it is Eliminating Enemy Drones using Direct Energy Lasers.

The U.S. military now claims it took out three enemy drones overnight that were targeting the US Border Patrol.


By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, September 25, 2026

TUCSON -- Those Bizarre Border Flights. The unidentified flights above the Tohono O'odham Nation border have now been identified as military drones, the kind used in war zones. After being spotlighted for weeks in our news reports, the U.S. military now says it took out three enemy drones using direct energy lasers during the night, saying that the drones posed a threat to the U.S. Border Patrol. However, no names or places were given.

Although the mystery aircrafts were finally identified by the US military, we haven't found any explanation for these flights going back and forth from the O'odham border to foreign countries over the past few weeks.

The most bizarre were multiple trips from the O'odham border to the United Arab Emirates in the middle east. The aircraft was tracked to a site off the coast of the UAE, where it turned around and went back to the O'odham border.

The unidentified aircraft changed call signs as it traveled from the Tohono O'odham Nation border to the United Arab Emirates at least twice, and to locations in Mexico and Brazil. Various colors reveal elevations on FlightRadar24.

Then there were two trips to Mexico from the O'odham border:  A flight to Santa Ana, a place for O'odham ceremonies, and a second flight to Mexico from the O'odham border to a remote area north of the tourist spot of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

There was also a trip to from the O'odham border to Sao Paulo, Brazil, according to Flight Radar24.

The aircraft was first shown on radar as a helicopter using the call signs of a small unregistered plane.

We were able to identify the aircraft as a drone because of the long flight time. We were next able to track it to the Army base in Fort Huachuca, southeast of Tucson.

The military still isn't telling the whole story.

The drone or drones have also been above the tree sit that is blocking border wall construction in Lochiel, east of Nogales, Arizona. One of the drones, there appears to be at least two, was last used in Bangkok, Thailand, according to radar.

The military now says it used the unidentified drones to take down three enemy drones. The operation was based at Fort Bliss, which explains the air trails to El Paso, Texas, area.

Of course the U.S. government does not share its own involvement with the Sinaloa cartel, and the weapons 'walking' across the border. Supplying cartels in Sonora with high powered automatic weapons was carried out by the ATF to track weapons to the cartels, the less violent ones, to take out the others.

However, the gun running resulted in a Border Patrol agent being killed with one of those weapons, north of Nogales, Arizona.

The gun walking operation was exposed on the Texas border and in Tucson. The weapons, it turned out, could not be tracked. 

The U.S. military's Joint Task Force at the Southern Border said today it is using a high-energy laser system to mitigate cartel-linked drone threats

The Joint Task Force – Southern Border in Fort Bliss, Texas, operating under U.S. Northern Command, in support of U.S. Customs and Border Protection released a statement today.

The Joint Task Force said it "successfully defended U.S. military personnel and CBP partners by mitigating three adversarial unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) using directed energy capabilities this week."

"During the operation, which spanned the late-night hours of August 25 and 26, JTF-SB personnel used the Army Multipurpose High Energy Laser (AMP-HEL) system to engage and defeat three hostile UAS, determined to be such based on their use in direct support of activities posing a physical threat to U.S. military personnel and CBP partners." Continue reading https://www.northcom.mil/Newsroom/Press-Releases/Article/4585131/joint-task-force-southern-border-uses-high-energy-laser-system-to-mitigate-cart/

A Natural Disaster. By peccary_not_pig on Instagram.

"Part of the double border wall project in Arizona’s San Rafael stretches 160 feet wide across what was once a vital ecosystem. From heel to torch the Statue of Liberty is 151 ft tall. She could lay down in this dystopian hellscape or be buried there. This is a nightmare befitting a paranoid empire. The entire landscape is now a prisoner."

Read more:

ATF let hundreds of U.S. weapons fall into hands of suspected Mexican gunrunners
Whistleblower Says Agents Strongly Objected to Risky Strategy By John Solomon and David Heath and Gordon Witkin March 03, 2011
Center for Public Integrity

Hoping to score a major prosecution of Mexican drug lords, federal prosecutors and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives permitted hundreds of guns to be purchased and retained by suspected straw buyers with the expectation they might cross the border and even be used in crimes while the case was being built, according to documents and interviews.

The decision — part of a Phoenix-based operation code named “Fast and Furious” — was met by strong objections from some front-line agents who feared they were allowing weapons like AK-47s to “walk” into the hands of drug lords and gun runners, internal agency memos show. Indeed, scores of the weapons came back quickly traced to criminal activity. Read more ... http://www.publicintegrity.org/articles/entry/2976

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September 23, 2026

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.

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