Not that there's anything important there – just F-22s and stuff The former commander of the the Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Virginia, has revealed an unidentified drone swarm buzzed the facility for 17 days last December.

The Wall Street Journal has a strange scoop involving Virginia's Langley Air Force Base. It seems that in December of last year, a sophisticated fleet of drones flew over the base for 17 straight nights—and the military was powerless to stop them.

U.S. officials don’t know who is behind the drones that have flown unhindered over sensitive national-security sites—or how to stop them.

The drone sightings continued for 17 days, raising suspicions that they might be the work of Russian or Chinese agents seeking to spy on American military assets.

The Pentagon has confirmed a number of “unauthorized” drone flights last year in restricted airspace over a Virginia base that houses the nation’s most advanced fighter jets. The Wall Street Journal first reported that for 17 days in December,

Langley Air Force Base is home to advanced fighter jets, which were moved to another base after UAVs were spotted around it last December, a report said.

New details are emerging about drones that flew over U.S. military bases last year, though there is still no explanation for where they came from. Gordon Lubold, a White House and national security reporter at The Wall Street Journal,

The Pentagon this week confirmed news reports of unidentified drones swarming the airspace at Langley Air Force Base in Hampton last year. The Hampton base experienced incursions of unauthorized unmanned aerial systems in December,

Commanders on a military base swarmed by mystery drones had the authority to shoot them down, but didn’t, the Pentagon has revealed.

Unidentified drones spotted flying over Langley Air Force Base in Virginia have baffled US military officials who are not sure whether it is the work of hostile powers or hobbyists.