Sipsey Street Irregulars: FBI behind mysterious surveillance aircraft over US cities

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

FBI behind mysterious surveillance aircraft over US cities

The FBI is operating a small air force with scores of low-flying planes across the country carrying video and, at times, cellphone surveillance technology - all hidden behind fictitious companies that are fronts for the government, The Associated Press has learned. The planes' surveillance equipment is generally used without a judge's approval, and the FBI said the flights are used for specific, ongoing investigations. In a recent 30-day period, the agency flew above more than 30 cities in 11 states across the country, an AP review found.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...: If you go to http://www.flightaware.com and punch in the tail number of one of these aircraft you can find all sorts of interesting data. That data can be used to determine the most likely performance parameters for the imaging and ELINT systems aboard the aircraft. Most of these aircraft are not capable of flying in bad weather or getting up above it. Their imaging systems performance will severely degraded by the weather as well. The ELINT packages will work in weather extremes much worse than the aircraft will tolerate.

In good weather the imaging sensors can probably take still images with 1 inch or less resolution from 5,000-6,000 feet or more. I have worked with commercial airborne orthoimagery that was that good. It was expensive for me but it's not like the Feds are spending their money. If they have multi spectral cameras aboard they can determine things like soil or vegetation disturbances days and maybe even weeks afterwards. Plant you caches in the deep woods under tree canopies.

http://members.home.nl/7seas/radcalc.htm here is a web page where you can determine the maximum range of the planes sensors by calculating the distance of the radar and visual horizons from the aircraft's altitude. The electronics range will vary from the radars depending on the frequency of the signals being emanated or received. The higher the frequency the shorter the effective range.

I have yet to see what one of the mobile data downlink ground stations for these aircraft look like. I know they must exist because the aircraft lack any bulbish or round planar array antenna on top like the predator/reaper drones have which is a satellite uplink antenna. Such mobile ground stations would probably have several antenna for VHF radio to talk to the aircrew, and UHF or higher antenna's for the high speed air to ground digital down links. Hmmm... maybe a look-see at the FCC records to see if they registered any FCC licenses to the same fake front companies is in order. Then we can see if they actually bothered to encrypt the video feeds. It took them decades to correct that little blunder with the Predator video downlinks.; June 2, 2015 at 6:21 PM
Joe said...: Slightly dated, but quite relevant.

http://gunscarstech.com/2014/04/15/about-that-mystery-helicopter-in-the-bundy-cattle-confiscation/

http://www.reviewjournal.com/sites/default/files/field/media/web1_roundup_040714JL_06_1.jpg

( Note bogus, sloppy-hand painted, hack N-number ); June 2, 2015 at 8:18 PM
Joe said...: And....

http://waronguns.blogspot.com/2014/04/black-helicopters.html

Keep your eyes peeled for good old N515JW, ( Bell 407 )

Pictured here "working" Bundy Ranch:

http://www.reviewjournal.com/sites/default/files/field/media/web1_tresspasscattle_040514JL_02_4.jpg; June 2, 2015 at 8:26 PM
Anonymous said...: Hoover, back from the dead.; June 3, 2015 at 1:01 AM
skybill said...: Hi Mike,
Why bother with all the "Covert Crap!!!" Foomp!Foomp!Foomp!('Chopper noise!)a voice comes on the comm,"Put On PsyWar Ops, Make-It-LOUD!, Romeo Foxtrot, Shall-We-Dance!!!!".......

Got Gunz......OUTLAW!!?,
III%,
skybill-out; June 3, 2015 at 2:52 PM
Anonymous said...: Mike,

I am glad that you made it back. That is an epic trip. Regarding all those Cessna 182T models that they have under front companies.... If you check the FAA database with the tail numbers, the companies are registered as being in Loudon County. This is odd, as Bristow is in Prince William County.
The airport associated with many of these is Manassas Regional Airport. You can see it at: http://www.manassasairport.aero/
The Bristow post office is adjacent to the airport and can be seen at http://www.uspspostoffices.com/va/bristow/bristow
Of particular note is what is at the intersection of Virginia Rte 234 (just North of said airport) and University Blvd. I would take a guess and say that there are no coincidences.; June 5, 2015 at 6:14 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

Sipsey Street Irregulars

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

FBI behind mysterious surveillance aircraft over US cities

6 comments:

Blog Archive

Followers