{"id":405861,"date":"2026-09-21T02:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T02:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/405861\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T02:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T02:44:10","slug":"florida-fishing-charter-finds-large-drone-floating-in-gulf-of-mexico-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/405861\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida fishing charter finds large drone floating in Gulf of Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PENSACOLA, Fla. \u2014 A Pensacola charter fishing group made an unusual catch on Saturday, a <a href=\"https:\/\/weartv.com\/news\/local\/pensacola-fishing-charter-finds-large-drone-floating-in-gulf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">large drone <\/a>pulled from Gulf waters.<\/p>\n<p>Hot Spot Fishing Charters said the group was on a six-hour trip when it found and brought in the aircraft. The drone may be an MQM-172, though that has not been independently confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The MQM-172 is an unmanned aerial target aircraft used by the U.S. military for training and weapons testing.<\/p>\n<p>The charter reported the discovery, and the drone was picked up later that day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PENSACOLA, Fla. \u2014 A Pensacola charter fishing group made an unusual catch on Saturday, a large drone pulled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-405861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}