Overview
- Barksdale Air Force Base confirmed multiple unauthorized drones during the week of March 9, with a March 9 shelter-in-place order later lifted.
- A confidential briefing reported 12–15 drones arriving in waves over sensitive areas, including the flight line, for roughly four hours per day with varied ingress and egress routes.
- The devices exhibited non‑commercial signal characteristics, long‑range control links, and resistance to jamming, indicating sophisticated capabilities.
- Analysts assessed the drones as custom-built requiring advanced signal expertise and forecast further activity in the near term.
- Local, state, federal, and military agencies are investigating, with Bossier and DeSoto parish sheriffs and Louisiana State Police involved, and officials report no verified attribution or confirmed link to Iran.