Report: Anti-Drone Laser Test Prompted El Paso Airspace Closure

Sources cited by CBS News said the Defense Department has been experimenting with a high-powered laser at Fort Bliss, which ...
KVIA

El Paso’s 10-day airspace closure would have been unprecedented

Micheal McCormick, a former FAA employee with decades of experience, told ABC-7 that a 10 day closure would have been ...
Futurism

It Appears That Immigration Officials Caused the El Paso Airport Shutdown When They Panic-Fired a Powerful Laser Weapon at a Children’s Balloon

Customs and Border Protection officials reportedly loaned an anti-drone laser from the Pentagon, which caused the El Paso ...
Dronelife

El Paso Airspace Closure Highlights Clash Between Counter-UAS Technology and Aviation Safety

The El Paso airspace closure highlights tensions between counter-UAS technology, aviation safety, and federal authority near airports.

What we know, and what we don't, about the El Paso airspace closure

Questions remain, and tensions are stirring around conflicting explanations for the abrupt closure of the airspace over El ...

CBP shot down party balloons with anti-drone tech before FAA closed El Paso airspace, sources say

The sudden airspace closure came after CBP officials did not coordinate with officials from the FAA, four people familiar with the matter said.