A Chinese student at the University of Minnesota has been sentenced to six months in federal prison after authorities found pictures of Navy ships under construction on a drone he abandoned near a Norfolk, Virginia, shipyard.
But what authorities couldn’t determine is whether Fengyun Shi had anything to do with a spate of drone incursions over hypersensitive military installations in Virginia and Nevada in late 2023. The Wall Street Journal stitched together a report from unnamed government sources, police records, court documents, and social media photos that alleges drone swarms flew over Langley Air Force Base in Virginia over 17 nights in December and two months earlier at the Energy Department’s Nevada Security Site near Las Vegas.
