OT: Theory about the Drones and it is not good.

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Learned this last night helping my daughter study for midterms:

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I learned this in 4th grade public school:

Ostrich Avestruz GIF by Amnistía Internacional España

Let’s hope you’re right this time finally. I’ll ere on the side of people who know what they’re talking about when they see drones practicing maneuvering they’re familiar with. Or are you saying these weren’t drones still?
 
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The drones sightings are likely a mixture of:

1. regular fixed wing manned aircraft.

2. Hobbyist.

3. Manipulated and exaggerated video.

4. A slow news time there has to be something to report.

5. Government drones looking for something, i.e. radioactive material.

I thought about drones used for spraying herbicides/pesticides (there have been reports of them operating in power line easements), but it’s the wrong year of time for that.

What i don't understand, if they are looking for radioactive material, why not operate after midnight in blackout mode? Whoever is operating them wants them to be seen. It appears that many are operating low enough that they wouldn't endanger manned aircraft.
 
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I learned this in 4th grade public school:

Ostrich Avestruz GIF by Amnistía Internacional España

Let’s hope you’re right this time finally. I’ll ere on the side of people who know what they’re talking about when they see drones practicing maneuvering they’re familiar with. Or are you saying these weren’t drones still?

Proving my point. I can’t prove it isn’t true, therefore it must be true
 
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A lot of the videos I’ve seen taken from far off look like fixed wing aircraft getting in line to land at an airport. If you live around Memphis you know what it looks like about 8:30-11:00 PM when FedEx planes start rolling in. If you don’t know what you’re looking at it looks bizarre.

And some of these are guaranteed to be copycats trying to scare people.

Are there some legit concerns with some of these stories….maybe. There’s been several Chinese “tourists” that have been arrested in the last year for flying drones near military bases. Other than that it’s been fairly quiet.
 

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I heard some of them even have odd green and red flashing lights on different sides of the aircraft. No one knows why.
 
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A bunch of people have filmed commercial aircraft coming and going around airports.

Then.... there's a LOT of video out there like what this guy shot last night on a flight from Chicago to Newark. If anybody can explain these... I'm all ears.

When you click on the post there are three longer YT videos.

 

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Proving my point. I can’t prove it isn’t true, therefore it must be true
If only you approached it in a manner that wasn’t so dickish…
Instead, you choose to mock an actual plausible explanation that has been noted multiple times from different sources. I do find it amusing the things you choose to give credence to and things you don’t. I’m sure you refused to think Covid was man-made in a Chinese lab funded by the US and that masks actually worked. 🤷🏾‍♂️
You do you, boo.
 

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A lot of the videos I’ve seen taken from far off look like fixed wing aircraft getting in line to land at an airport. If you live around Memphis you know what it looks like about 8:30-11:00 PM when FedEx planes start rolling in. If you don’t know what you’re looking at it looks bizarre.

And some of these are guaranteed to be copycats trying to scare people.

Are there some legit concerns with some of these stories….maybe. There’s been several Chinese “tourists” that have been arrested in the last year for flying drones near military bases. Other than that it’s been fairly quiet.
17ing hell. They are not airplanes flying into an airport. They are drones. What they’re up to is purely speculation currently.
 

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A bunch of people have filmed commercial aircraft coming and going around airports.

Then.... there's a LOT of video out there like what this guy shot last night on a flight from Chicago to Newark. If anybody can explain these... I'm all ears.

When you click on the post there are three longer YT videos.


Looks like a lot of fixed wing aircraft to me. ORD to EWR is a very congested flight path and with it being near sunset or twilight it makes it look a little freaky. There’s also a lot more distance between those aircraft than it looks.
 

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He’s not the only one saying this. The owner of a company who makes drones for the US gov’t is saying they are sniffer drones and, more than likely, looking for a nuclear weapon. Hopefully they’re wrong.
Seriously? You really think the government is searching for a lost nuclear weapon? Cause if they were, I'm sure they'd make sure to use well-lit drones out in the open in the daylight and early evening hours where they'd be seen by the most people. One thing I know for sure, if they were searching for a list nuclear weapon, no one would ever know about it.
 

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17ing hell. They are not airplanes flying into an airport. They are drones. What they’re up to is purely speculation currently.
I didn’t say all of them weren’t drones but a lot of the videos people freaking out over are just videos of planes flying from a distance.
 

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If only you approached it in a manner that wasn’t so dickish…
Instead, you choose to mock an actual plausible explanation that has been noted multiple times from different sources. I do find it amusing the things you choose to give credence to and things you don’t. I’m sure you refused to think Covid was man-made in a Chinese lab funded by the US and that masks actually worked. 🤷🏾‍♂️
You do you, boo.

Wasn’t trying to be a dick, so for that I apologize. Just pointing out that every theory that is pushed on this is immediately embraced without proof.

Also, in reference to your previous post, I have never said these weren’t drones. I believe my only contribution to the drone thread was that Galaga is the greatest arcade game of all time. I stand by my opinion and am sorry if it offends you.
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Looks like a lot of fixed wing aircraft to me. ORD to EWR is a very congested flight path and with it being near sunset or twilight it makes it look a little freaky. There’s also a lot more distance between those aircraft than it looks.
Maybe they're planes.. and I'll agree that the sun is setting to the right of that frame so planes on the horizon would be lit by the setting sun. But I've NEVER seen something like that in the air and I think they are way too bright to be reflections or even landing/identification lights.
 
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It's forever amusing to me how for some folks, the United States Government is simultaneously Ernest P Worrell and Jason Bourne.
I mean, it wasn't exactly crazy at one time to think that there would be highly competent, well functioning units within the intelligence/military fields despite the gov't overall being a cluster 17 of a **** show. Granted, the size of the unit that could plausibly be highly competent has gotten smaller and smaller over the past couple of decades and may now be down to the size of something like seal team 6, but I am still holding out hope that they are out there.
 
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The drones sightings are likely a mixture of:

1. regular fixed wing manned aircraft.

2. Hobbyist.

3. Manipulated and exaggerated video.

4. A slow news time there has to be something to report.

5. Government drones looking for something, i.e. radioactive material.

I thought about drones used for spraying herbicides/pesticides (there have been reports of them operating in power line easements), but it’s the wrong year of time for that.

What i don't understand, if they are looking for radioactive material, why not operate after midnight in blackout mode? Whoever is operating them wants them to be seen. It appears that many are operating low enough that they wouldn't endanger manned aircraft.

May not be looking for anything; it may just be a practice exercise.

Drone research takes place in sparsely populated areas. We have drones in South Mississippi, both air and sea, I believe because it's a relatively sparsely populated air space, but I think most of the precursor to that research and development (at least on the air side) took place in the desert where there is really nobody. I completely believe that there are domestic uses in mind, such as searching for something radioactive, and they are going to want to test those uses in more congested air space at some point. That would maybe provide an explanation for doing it when there is still some visibility, so there would be some additional safety even if the downside is public awareness.

I don't want to put too much into what Trump says since he talks off the cuff to say the least, but him saying that he doesn't understand why they don't tell the public what it is makes it seem more plausible to me that it's something in the nature of military exercises without an imminent threat.
 

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A bunch of people have filmed commercial aircraft coming and going around airports.

Then.... there's a LOT of video out there like what this guy shot last night on a flight from Chicago to Newark. If anybody can explain these... I'm all ears.

When you click on the post there are three longer YT videos.


That looks like other planes on approach to me. Fly into any major airport and get a good look out the window before you land - you can see numerous other planes at various distances and altitudes. That is exactly what a plane looks like with its landing lights on, which the only turn on when on approach.
 

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May not be looking for anything; it may just be a practice exercise.

Drone research takes place in sparsely populated areas. We have drones in South Mississippi, both air and sea, I believe because it's a relatively sparsely populated air space, but I think most of the precursor to that research and development (at least on the air side) took place in the desert where there is really nobody. I completely believe that there are domestic uses in mind, such as searching for something radioactive, and they are going to want to test those uses in more congested air space at some point. That would maybe provide an explanation for doing it when there is still some visibility, so there would be some additional safety even if the downside is public awareness.

I don't want to put too much into what Trump says since he talks off the cuff to say the least, but him saying that he doesn't understand why they don't tell the public what it is makes it seem more plausible to me that it's something in the nature of military exercises without an imminent threat.
Concur it could just be an "exercise." Also it could well be a effort to create panic/concern to justify giving the DOD/NASA/Etc., mo' money to counter the "threat." I'm 100% convinced all the UFO hearings/news over the last two years was/is fabricated to get more money.

Don't forget Project Blue Beam..... Although I prefer Project "Bluebell."
 

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This is just one news report. Nuts if somehow it is true. Someone's *** needs to be kicked.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/mystery-new-jersey-drones-are-34324244

A bunch of people have filmed commercial aircraft coming and going around airports.

Then.... there's a LOT of video out there like what this guy shot last night on a flight from Chicago to Newark. If anybody can explain these... I'm all ears.

When you click on the post there are three longer YT videos.


Those are literally airplanes on approach lined up to their runways.
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