eyewitness accounts suggest that the anomaly resembled comically large chopsticks

Huh. So it seems 50 y/o U.S. military hardware isn’t as infallible these days as the article states. Or it was aliens. I’d be really happy with either one.

Are they sure it didn’t just land on the mainland? During the Cold War, pilots and their planes would “just disappear” on occasion.

RIP F-16 and -35A. A single, yet effective electronic warfare would stop stealth capabilities.