I took this text from LinkedIn as I can't read the entire article as it's paywalled. However, if this text gives good context then the part about the Chinese drones over Cape Canaveral is interesting, given the recent drone incursions over US military bases and those in New Jersey. I'm increasingly thinking that most of the sightings of 'drones' are exactly that - drones. And we know a lot of civilian UAP sightings are likely just U.S. military hardware being tested. I still hold out hope that benevolent NHI are visiting us though. Here's the text: On the night of a record SpaceX launch, an attractive woman was running a quiet operation at a Florida beach bar. Not networking. Targeting. She moved from engineer to engineer: Are you with SpaceX? What do you work on? Two ex-CIA officers spotted the pattern immediately. Their neighbors didn't. That's the quiet thesis of Adam Ciralsky's recent Vanity Fair investigation into Florida's Space Coast — and it deserves more attention than it's getting in professional circles. Whoever controls reusable rocket technology controls low earth orbit. Whoever controls LEO controls satellite constellations. Whoever controls those controls command-and-control, early warning, and the strategic architecture of the next war. SpaceX cracked the code. China hasn't. Yet. So they send people to figure it out. Drones launched from vessels offshore, loitering over Cape Canaveral. A Chinese national in a wetsuit, inside the Artemis launch perimeter, carrying rations and a solar charger. A PhD student in computational math photographing missile bunkers and nuclear submarine wharves. Real estate purchased in cash, at 300x its prior sale price, a stone's throw from Patrick Space Force Base, emitting Bluetooth signals too dense for a 3,000-square-foot house. Each incident, handled in isolation, looks like a misunderstanding. Plotted together, it's a collection architecture. Florida eventually moved on its own. In 2024, the state legislature upgraded unauthorized entry onto spaceports and defense facilities from misdemeanor to felony. It took a man in a wetsuit and a woman asking engineers their job titles at a dive bar to get there. Three takeaways: One - proximity is vulnerability. The threat doesn't announce itself at a classified facility. It announces itself at the bar across the street, at the trade show, on the property next door. Two - bureaucratic inertia is as dangerous as the adversary. An institution that mistakes absence of confirmed cases for absence of threat will always be behind. Three - amateurs notice things that professionals explain away. A stay-at-home mom with Tom Clancy novels and off-the-shelf Bluetooth tools mapped an intelligence syndicate. She called the FBI twice. She was told she was profiling. The article ends with a former national security official's quiet warning: if we don't act while the advantage is still ours, "when we're staring down the barrel of a war, our strategic advantage of controlling the heavens will be neutered." Here's the link for those with an account: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/spylandia-florida-spies?srsltid=AfmBOoqoyejpylJgZ-gMqd56dPDgerTgOu-fe_T-IRfYVr3nq8cm8_Q6 submitted by /u/Remarkable-Band-8597 [link] [comments]