Social media users spotted multiple military helicopters buzzing over Los Angeles on Tuesday night, with the choppers reportedly circling highways, hovering close to the ground and making landings on top of skyscrapers in the downtown area.
The US military is keeping silent about a recent string of videos posted to social media from greater Los Angeles showing unidentified blacked-out helicopters, some of them with their lights off, flying over the city.
Multiple clips of the unusual activity have been posted to Twitter, prompting users to ask what's going on.
The Drive contributor Tyler Rogoway said the choppers were MH-6 Little Birds, and that they were piloted by the Army's Night Stalkers, also called the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR), which reportedly regularly engage in training across major US cities, sometimes alongside Navy SEALS, Rangers, the Special Forces Marines, or Delta Force.
The military affairs journalist added that the US Army customarily gives “little if any warning to the public” before starting drills, which he suggested “always causes everything from great concern to outlandish conspiracy theories”.
The chopper sightings follow reports on Monday of odd police and city utility helicopter activity around LA's major highways.
Two members of the 160th SOAR were killed and three others injured last week after their Blackhawk helicopter crashed on San…
