The future of military tech is supposedly hypersonic missiles, stealth drones and suicide drones. I'm going with large-scale air force experiments with a new line of drones, possibly with a 'psy-op' angle. While the Democrats sabotage everything possible for the upcoming Orange-Man-Bad presidency (such as selling off portions of the border wall), they want to distract people with 'mysterious' unidentified aerial phenomena.
There be aliens/Iranian motherships launching drone squadrons/Chinese stealth balloons afoot.
(I haven't really spent much thought on this. In case you haven't noticed. ;) )
Govt op to help push more laws and regulations against civilian drones among other ways to steal freedoms from citizens.
That was my thought. They fly a bunch of drones around making it look sinister and mysterious and then the public begs them to regulate drones more because they are scared.
Drones are already geofenced, according to what drone hobbyists have been saying. They stop working if they get too close to restricted airspace, and cops of one sort or another are on the operator's ass in minutes.
What is suspicious to me is that the narrative keeps changing. And base incursions started in England as well as the US east coast back in November.
What's up there now is undoubtedly a lot of civilian and police etc drones looking for the og "drones" that started this flap, but the real "drones' seem to be coming off the ocean, and while they might have "lights", they're not necessarily FAA compliant lights.
Best case scenario: US government/industrial fuckery and gaslighting.
Worst case scenario: Sino-Russian fuckery and US gaslighting.
Outlier scenario: NHI (not necessarily "from space") fuckery and US gaslighting.
No matter what, trust in Washington is going to tank even more than it already has done, at home and internationally.
I am pretty sure that's true for DJI drones, but building your own drone, which is achievable by anyone who can do internet research and competently operate a soldering iron and allen wrench, has no such limitations.
There are a hell of a lot of other legal limitations, though:
You must have direct, unassisted vision of the drone at all times. This means long distance flight and all FPV flight (goggles connected to a camera on the drone) are illegal. I've been told you can get around this by having a "spotter" while you're flying FPV, but essentially everyone in the hobby ignores this, which is fine up until a cop decides to make a problem for you.
You must have registered yourself and your drone with the FAA unless it weighs under 250 grams, which is not very realistic. This involves the FAA getting a bunch of information about you.
You must fly with a remote ID module. This is a fairly expensive device which broadcasts the GPS coordinates of the pilot and drone, and the FAA ID number from the previous step, at all times, over bluetooth, so anyone with a phone can receive the signal if they want. This is widely perceived as a mechanism to enable Karens who wrongly think all public drone flight is illegal to find and harass drone pilots, which already happens at a fairly high rate. I honestly don't even know what the point of this is from a safety perspective, besides to fuck with drone operators and hugely reduce their privacy. I doubt planes can pick up the signal in time for it to matter (not that drones accidentally hitting planes is a real problem to begin with), and anyone with actual criminal intent will just turn the feature off. It's like demanding that everyone install an electronic tracking device on their gun- do you think maybe the criminals would turn theirs off before they commit a crime, or simply not install it to begin with? It applies at all times, even if you're flying at the height of one foot over your own property.
There can be additional local laws. The FAA claims sole jurisdiction over the air, so NYC for instance can't actually ban all drone flight, but they can apparently ban taking off or landing, so that's effectively the same thing.
You must obey FAA flight regulations about altitude. Mostly this means you have to fly under 400 feet, but there are areas, like around airports or various government facilities, that drop that altitude to less, sometimes to zero. Under 400 feet and not at airports is the one regulation that actually makes some sense, everything else is just fucking with drone operators because some idiots panicked and want to do something, even if it doesn't make any sense.
Flying a drone for any commercial purposes- which is defined very broadly and includes posting a video from your drone on youtube- requires an additional FAA license which you get from passing a written test and jumping through a fair number of additional hoops.
A lot of drone equipment either outright violates FCC regulations on signal power or requires you to have a ham radio technician license, which involves passing a test which is mostly not remotely applicable to drone operation.
But the short of it is that most recreational drone operators regularly ignore some or all of these laws, which is fine up until a cop decides to make an issue about it and arrests you, then starts looking for laws you may have broken. It fits into a broader pattern of basically making it impossible to live a normal life without violating enough laws that the government can seriously fuck you over at any time they wish.
No, dickheads have been flying around and through airport airspace and intersecting approach and departure paths.
If they were actually following the airspace and altitude restrictions it wouldn't be a problem, but near misses or damage from hitting drones have been reported fairly frequently, and if they did this shit and got sucked into an engine even a small drone would severely fuck a turbine.
Now, drone operators DELIBERATELY hitting planes is a much bigger threat and remote ID wouldn't be installed on something built for that purpose.
The Army has been testing new drones for 3D mapping and surveillance at the research facility in Jersey since 2018. This is journalists being lazy, and the government trying to keep secrets that aren't even secret anymore. There's a publicily available contract for a drone company to provide the tech and the FAA restricted the airspace for the test back in November.
This is a fat load of nothing that journos have propped up to get clicks.
Nah man, I think there is more to it for sure.
Does no one remember when there were large drones spotted in the desert and rural areas?
https://lethbridgenewsnow.com/2020/01/15/theories-persist-about-mystery-drones-seen-in-rural-region/
This article from 2020 sound familar?
It is for sure our technology, they wouldnt be using aviation lights if they werent.
They obviously tested these things in the desert and rural areas first, and now they are testing them over densely packed urban centers. Who the hell knows why. The mainstream theory right now is that they are sniffing out nuclear bombs, but I dont buy that. I dont think its something as simple as testing aerial cars either because why all the secrecy?
Found this article, do you think its related? From 2017.
https://www.twz.com/9102/u-s-air-force-is-planning-something-big-in-the-nevada-desert
Am I reading this right? Almost 4 billion on drone research?
At this point I almost think its possible they are gonna eventually mount some light projectors on there and some rocket launchers and fake ufo attacks. I couldnt think of a way that could unite humanity under a one world government faster than that. I believe in ufos and that whoever is flying them is likely partly responsible for our creation.
Doesnt mean that our leaders cant exploit that for their own purposes though.
I know for sure that if they try to trot out some ridiculous "grey" as the other species, the first word out of my mouth is going to be "fake".
The reason they give exactly squares with what they've been doing. Assuming they're telling the truth, they obviously would test it over all kinds of terrain. Sometimes even the government tells the truth.
Not that the idea of drone swarms being able to 3D map your town and signature tracking is pleasant.
Oh, really? Sounds interesting.
This paper keeps getting spammed on 4chan:
https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=131506
(tl;dr some researchers theorizing that there is an unidentified plasma life form that lives in the upper atmosphere and occasionally dips low enough that we see them - this would also encompass "ball lightning" phenomena which are apparently still not fully understood)
Two categories of sightings have been observed: drones and orbs. Many orbs turn out to be chinese lanterns or bokeh effect from distant drones and aircraft, but assuming any of the orbs are real and something novel, the non-civ drones could either be studying them or part of the gaslighting/disinformation campaign.
The war in Ukraine had shown how effective (and cheap) drone warfare can be against a modern military force. So no shit the government wants to do whatever they can to prevent the citizens of our nation to be able to use those tactics against the state.
Citizens? How about all the non-citizens that were allowed to get in without getting who can use those tactics as enemies agents? Remember rumours of Chinese soldiers coming in via Mexico?
They already caught one chink. How many thousands more to go?