{"id":3750,"date":"2025-03-11T16:13:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T16:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/large-drone-spotted-near-border-with-png-as-chinese-warships-passed-nearby-abc-news-3\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T13:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T13:12:10","slug":"abc-news-reports-significant-drone-sighted-close-to-png-border-amid-passing-chinese-warships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/abc-news-reports-significant-drone-sighted-close-to-png-border-amid-passing-chinese-warships\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC News Reports: Significant Drone Sighted Close to PNG Border Amid Passing Chinese Warships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A significant drone has been observed close to the border with Papua New Guinea as Chinese naval vessels navigated through the area (ABC News). <\/p>\n<p>Last week, I shared a post about the Chinese Navy&#8217;s fleet operating near Australia, speculating on the likelihood of drone sightings. That post was removed after the government attributed the disruption of commercial air traffic around the fleet to live-fire exercises. <\/p>\n<p>However, it now seems that the fleet was actually deploying drones, which closely resemble those that have been reported over the US and UK in recent months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nA significant drone has been observed close to the border with Papua New Guinea as Chinese naval vessels navigated through the area (ABC News). Last week, I shared a post about the Chinese Navy&#8217;s fleet operating near Australia, speculating on the likelihood of drone sightings. That post was removed after the government attributed the disruption&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/abc-news-reports-significant-drone-sighted-close-to-png-border-amid-passing-chinese-warships\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;ABC News Reports: Significant Drone Sighted Close to PNG Border Amid Passing Chinese Warships&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufos","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10443,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions\/10443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}