Operatives of the Patnanungan Municipal Police Station have
recovered a US Navy target drone at Sitio Katakian, Barangay Busdak,
Patnanungan town, Quezon Sunday afternoon.
Recovered at about 4 p.m. Sunday was an aerial target drone,
"BQM 74E", bearing serial number "BQ55079".
The drone was initially sighted by a barangay official of
the locality but due to bad weather condition, could not reach the area at
once.
The drone is now under the custody of the Patnanungan
Municipal Police Station.
It was the second incident involving the recovery of a US
Navy drone in Philippine territory.
In January 2013, a similar drone was recovered by the
Philippine Navy in Sitio Tacdugan, San Jacinto, Masbate.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=1&sid=&nid=1&rid=721848
I would expect Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) propagandists to run with this incident attributing all sorts of nefarious, clandestine motives to the discovery of a target drone in Philippine territory. In the past, they launched disinformation campaigns characterizing these harmless target drones as being unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) engaged in activities targeting insurgent groups in the Philippines, especially the New People's Army (NPA, the military wing of the CPP, in violation of the Philippine constitution.
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