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hollohas
12-24-2019, 21:15
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7825739/At-17-large-drones-spotted-flying-search-patterns-northeast-Colorado-baffling-sheriffs.html
At least 17 mysterious large drones have been spotted flying search patterns over Colorado every night - but baffled authorities can't explain where they are from or who is flying them.?
The article says they have been spotted over Yuma and Phillips Counties. However, I saw 3 large drones that we're doing exactly as this article describes over Lakewood last week. They were flying slow, in a staggered pattern, northbound, paralleling Kipling around 5pm. From far away they looked stationary however as I got closer I was able to tell they were flying at slow speed northbound. They appeared to be winged and not quadcopters (but it was dark so I couldnt tell for sure), so not helicopters, but way too slow for plane large enough for a pilot. Plus, they were low and as I was stopped in traffic I rolled down my window to see if they made any noise. Nope, quiet. So again not a helicopter or even small prop plane that are easy to hear.
I didn't know what they were exactly, but figured some folks from CU or Lockheed or somewhere were testing some new equipment. Very out of the ordinary though.
hollohas
12-24-2019, 21:53
I don't know much about drones but what I saw appeared to be a fixed wing but flew like a quadcopter. That part had me confused.
Did some quick googling and discovered that there are hybrid drones and a couple that popped up look like the silhouette I saw in the night sky. One in particular is a mapping drone.
It was pretty clear to me by the pattern they were flying in they were searching or something based on the fact they were staggered but flying in the same direction. Not sure if mapping is done most effectively at night, but they they must have been recording some sort of information.
Something like this or this
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20191225/850d78a6be51e61d4983b614f60551b5.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20191225/787510b9f36978ca9a23cbfbe4fb5293.jpg
Cheaper than moving a gov sat orbit to take a look
And the resolution is probably better with the ability to record in 3-D.
And the resolution is probably better with the ability to record in 3-D.
File size with 3-d is problematic if they did all of the space that’s the news is leading us to believe. It would easier to transpose pictures over a topo.
Ohhh ohhh oh got it it’s the beta testing of the new census drones
Bailey Guns
12-25-2019, 06:47
^^ Exactly. They need to know how big to build the FEMA camps.
BPTactical
12-25-2019, 07:04
Probably Feds looking for dope grows.
SideShow Bob
12-25-2019, 10:08
The Gubment is testing their inaudible sonic crowd pacification weapons on CO. Citizens.........
http://mindcontrol-research.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/3_goodmann-steve-sonic-warfare.pdf
If you think I am joking, see page 3, item #4 in this link:
https://www.g-casa.com/conferences/shanghai/paper_pdf/Liu-mindcontrol.pdf
eddiememphis
12-25-2019, 20:22
Nephew in Holyoke says he has seen them. The local cops said it's not legal to shoot them.
We've got to make them adhere to a balanced budget, obv. These space weapon tactics, against your own population, are just out of line.
-John
BushMasterBoy
12-26-2019, 00:11
Probably drones used to guard mj grows. Aerial surveillance at its finest.
Martinjmpr
12-26-2019, 10:02
I'm assuming it's Magnetic Anomaly Detectors looking for large masses of metal for the coming gun confiscation and FEMA camp roundup program.
https://www.duffelblog.com/2013/01/military-drawing-up-plans-for-nation-wide-gun-confiscations/
[panic]
I noticed an unusually large number of chemtrails earlier this week. I wonder if there is a connection.
[Coffee]
They're looking for changes in the ground water due to fracking.
Grant H.
12-27-2019, 23:49
Likely SAR (synthetic aperture radar) drones doing high resolution mapping. Why? Not a clue.
SAR is also frequently satellite based, but the resolution isn't the same as can be attained from a drone. Taking an image from orbit with a ~$200-500 million satellite or getting a much higher resolution image with a $2-5 million drone or 3??? I know which I would choose.
Don't get me wrong, sat's have their place and some advantages, but the initial investment is a bee-otch...
battle_sight_zero
12-28-2019, 01:42
Hmm got to get my tin foil out. https://thecommonsenseshow.com/agenda-21-conspiracy-religion/drones-are-only-first-wave-principalities-darkness-are-coming-against-all-americans
GilpinGuy
12-28-2019, 03:47
Hmm got to get my tin foil out. https://thecommonsenseshow.com/agenda-21-conspiracy-religion/drones-are-only-first-wave-principalities-darkness-are-coming-against-all-americans
Why dude? I littarally feel more stoopider now.... for .....<drooling on self>.
BushMasterBoy
12-28-2019, 09:25
Probably guarding these. I don't recommend interfering with these drones.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/90th_Missile_Wing_LGM-30_Minuteman_Missile_Launch_Sites#/media/File:320th_Missile_Squadron_-_ALL.png
Hmm got to get my tin foil out. https://thecommonsenseshow.com/agenda-21-conspiracy-religion/drones-are-only-first-wave-principalities-darkness-are-coming-against-all-americans
Thank God for Donald Trump.
I'm banking on aliens scouting for a new intergalactic garbage dump...
http://pics.me.me/even-if-its-not-aliens-ts-aliens-hd-history-com-onlinememegenerator-com-23813638.png
Aardvark
12-28-2019, 14:34
Night conditions may help if doing thermal mapping. Maybe. Guessing. "These are not the drones you seek"
Maybe they're using FLIR to get good numbers on the elk herds. [Sarcasm2]
battle_sight_zero
12-28-2019, 23:50
Some thoughts from some Northern friends is that the drones in northern Colorado are keeping an eye on the influx of Muslim immigrants that have moved into the area. Some residents claim that some of these immigrants are buying land up there. One friend claims the meat packing plant in Greeley is a good example of the immigrants who moved into the area. Rumors are some of the people are buying land and house without the ability their income would allow them to do so. Simple internet searches show there is some history from the area https://www.5280.com/2010/08/al-qaedas-greeley-roots/ Anyways thought this post was interesting because a few weeks before this post started hearing this concern. I have blew this off but I keep getting drone links sent to me. Latist one today. https://www.stevequayle.com/index.php?s=33&d=2373. Anyways interesting thread here because I never it would pop up here. Also I have been looking at real estate in Wyoming, thought is was interesting hearing from a real estate agent that drone facilities being built in the area were part of the thought of more people being brought into the area. Of course there were other things talked of being brought into the area not just drones.
theGinsue
12-30-2019, 02:00
Getting MSM coverage across the state and nationally now. Claims are that the local LEO's and feds don't claim any responsibility or have knowledge as to what these are. They've been spotted in Nebraska now too.
battlemidget
12-30-2019, 08:39
Kinda odd that State (as in state of CO) doesn't care.
Kinda odd that State (as in state of CO) doesn't care.
I'm pretty sure they know what's going on. The state could even be footing the bill for the activity.
hollohas
12-30-2019, 14:46
There is no way these are related to anything local. Too much $$$.
State maybe. Most likely feds. Or Fed/private. If there are this many of them flying around, over such a large area, there must be LOTS of money behind it.
Isn't it the EPA or one of the government labs out of Boulder that flies the C-130 around the area all summer running grids? Maybe it's them testing out new tech? NEON out of Boulder does grid flights as well.
https://www.neonscience.org/data-collection/flight-schedules-coverage
hurley842002
12-31-2019, 05:27
https://www.foxnews.com/us/faa-proposes-rule-change-to-force-identification-of-colorado-nebraskas-mysterious-drones
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kidicarus13
12-31-2019, 20:01
I can confirm it is not a State endeavor.
So on my way home from hunting last night, I saw what I am sure was a drone flying along I-70. It seemed to be flying at about my same speed of nearly 80 mph and was also traveling west bound. As I neared Flagler, the hwy kind of curves to the N.W. and it was getting further away and I almost quit watching as it was getting quite some distance from me. Next thing I know it is coming North and crosses over the top of I-70 almost going right over the top of me.
Had two constant lights, one green and one white. Hard to tell how high it was but I'd guess 1000' maybe.
Also had a visit with one of the ranch hands that works on a ranch that I hunt and he and the rancher and his wife have all seen them as well. Hard for me to believe that someone hasn't figured out this mystery.
So...it's aliens.
Or Russians.
/sarcasm
Saw at least 10 or so around the greeley area last night. Between 7-9 pm or so. They were flying distinct grids both north/south as well as others flying east/west.
With the air national guard facility up here by the Weld county airport, seems like they would know who is flying these over them.
79794
Kind of a blurry pic. Was following them with my spotter and phoneskope trying to get some decent pics. It was hard to track them and get a clear pic as they were moving so fast.
kidicarus13
01-02-2020, 13:15
Kind of a blurry pic. Was following them with my spotter and phoneskope trying to get some decent pics. It was hard to track them and get a clear pic as they were moving so fast.It's like the Patterson Bigfoot film...
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200102/9af164999747b8a95fd61cb9ac10464e.jpg
hollohas
01-02-2020, 14:44
Oh, there is no doubt the Feds know exactly what these are, what they are doing and who's operating them. They just don't feel like sharing that info. If it's not public knowledge by now, it's GOT to be some sort of Fed/Mil thing.
.455_Hunter
01-02-2020, 15:36
You know that one of these days Uncle Jimbo and his 10 ga autoloader are going to get a prize.
It’s training for us to become immune to the lights so when the aliens come we won’t know the difference
BPTactical
01-02-2020, 19:08
It’s training for us to become immune to the lights so when the aliens come we won’t know the difference
Lol, most Colorado residents are too stoned to care.
buffalobo
01-02-2020, 19:51
It's like the Patterson Bigfoot film...
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200102/9af164999747b8a95fd61cb9ac10464e.jpgYou found Uncle Jimbo.
hollohas
01-02-2020, 22:23
Speaking of drones, but still off topic, did anyone see this awesome drone "lightshow" in China they had instead of fireworks? Very impressive. They invented fireworks and now came up with a pretty cool 21st century version.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7845641/Shanghai-replaces-fireworks-New-Years-Eve-thousands-stunning-display.html
They didn't invent the drone "lightshow".
Remember the 2017 Super Bowl halftime show?
https://www.wired.com/2017/02/lady-gaga-halftime-show-drones/
eddiememphis
01-03-2020, 10:39
Never fear- The mystery will soon be over!
Gov. Jared Polis wants to "get to the bottom" of Colorado's drone mystery
https://www.vaildaily.com/news/colorado/gov-jared-polis-wants-to-get-to-the-bottom-of-colorados-drone-mystery/
If anyone can get to the bottom of something, this Governor is well qualified.
Gotta admit, this is pretty strange - especially since nobody knows anything about them.
babarsac
01-03-2020, 10:52
https://i.imgur.com/qUY6WFl.jpg
kidicarus13
01-04-2020, 07:49
https://www.engadget.com/2016/11/28/droneshield-anti-drone-gun/https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200104/4210f43411d54f52c598b750aa58f995.jpg
.455_Hunter
01-07-2020, 23:47
I saw a big boy drone flying over C-470 near Bandimere at roughly 5:20pm this evening (Tuesday). Full flashing red and white lights, a couple hundred feet above the highway and moving roughly SE at a moderate pace. Never seen anything similar over past 17.5 years of commuting the same route.
The Drive has a new update:
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/31773/surveillance-plane-joins-intensifying-hunt-for-mystery-drones-over-colorado-and-nebraska
buffalobo
01-13-2020, 14:18
The Drive has a new update:
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/31773/surveillance-plane-joins-intensifying-hunt-for-mystery-drones-over-colorado-and-nebraskaNot impressed with writers lack of geographic accuracy. There is no Clay county in Colorado and Sheriff Briton is sheriff of Sedgewick county, Colorado not Kansas. Make a guy wonder what else is not accurate.
I didn't see anything there that I hadn't heard/read already. I've seen less buzz about it lately, but don't know if that's because the media has moved on, or whomever was operating the drones is now laying low.
I considered charging my quad up and setting it at a 200ft hover over my lot just to see if it ended up in the news, but lost motivation
hollohas
01-13-2020, 22:07
https://kdvr.com/2020/01/13/state-plans-to-scale-back-investigation-of-drones-in-northeast-colorado/
Between Jan. 6 and Jan. 13, when state officials were investigating drone sightings in the field, there were 23 drone activity reports. Of those, 13 were determined to be planets, stars or small hobbyist drones. Six reports were ruled out as ?atmospheric conditions or unidentified commercial aircraft.? Finally, four reports were confirmed by law enforcement but the aircraft were unidentifiable.
Stars? Atmospheric conditions? Really?
I don't think so.
As I mentioned, I saw 3 drones flying in formation at night that were very obviously NOT hobbyist drones. No one would mistake them for stars, planets or clouds. There is absolutely no doubt that some .gov or .gov contractor is up to something. Who knows what, but it's legit. I have a hard time believing that only 4 were confirmed.
This sounds 100% like the state was Jedi mind tricked and told "these aren't the drones you're looking for"...
Aloha_Shooter
01-14-2020, 10:37
If anyone can get to the bottom of something, this Governor is well qualified.
How does he get to the bottom of something when he already is usually the bottom?
ChickNorris
01-14-2020, 11:33
Noticed weather ballon is missing from the list.
ChickNorris
01-14-2020, 11:35
"these aren't the drones you're looking for"...
Nice
Repeat the lie often enough, and it will become truth.
newracer
01-14-2020, 13:34
Several spotted over my neighborhood last night. I think they were recreational.
battlemidget
01-14-2020, 14:44
Watch, this is going to turn out to be viral marketing for some netflix show about drones.
BushMasterBoy
01-14-2020, 16:15
I'm pretty sure this is some classified program from a alphabet agency. Insert "plausible deniablity"___________ statement here.
May the Space Force be with you...
hollohas
01-14-2020, 17:25
One of the more plausible theories I have read is that Air Force Global Strike Command has been actively conducting counter-drone exercises out of F.E. Warren AFB in Cheyenne and it's related to the Minuteman Silos.
Which brings another important point to the front. The .mil knows exactly what the drones are especially because they have been so many around the silos. There's no way in hell the military would just blow off a shit ton of drone sightings all around the missile facilities if they didn't know exactly what they were. In other words, if they were truly of unknown origin, they would be shooting them down and we'd know about it. The military is not alarmed which means they know exactly what they are.
battlemidget
01-14-2020, 17:33
nuts, i was hoping for a cool tv show.
One of the more plausible theories I have read is that Air Force Global Strike Command has been actively conducting counter-drone exercises out of F.E. Warren AFB in Cheyenne and it's related to the Minuteman Silos.
Which brings another important point to the front. The .mil knows exactly what the drones are especially because they have been so many around the silos. There's no way in hell the military would just blow off a shit ton of drone sightings all around the missile facilities if they didn't know exactly what they were. In other words, if they were truly of unknown origin, they would be shooting them down and we'd know about it. The military is not alarmed which means they know exactly what they are.
That sounds plausible to me.
won't be long and the sightings will end and the story will be gone, and we'll all be left wondering.
I agree, someone knows exactly what the drones are doing. It's just that us little people don't need to know and so we're kept in the dark.
NFATrustGuy
01-15-2020, 09:31
won't be long and the sightings will end and the story will be gone, and we'll all be left wondering.
I agree, someone knows exactly what the drones are doing. It's just that us little people don't need to know and so we're kept in the dark.
I’m going to be really disappointed if I crash into one of these buggers with my full-sized airplane and it kills me!
I’m going to be really disappointed if I crash into one of these buggers with my full-sized airplane and it kills me!
You should consider setting up a trust with your assets to more easily transfer to your family, just in case.
spqrzilla
01-15-2020, 11:40
You should consider setting up a trust with your assets to more easily transfer to your family, just in case.
[Coffee]
babarsac
01-30-2020, 14:38
Somehow I'm not surprised
The Colorado Mystery Drones Weren?t Real
The mysterious drone sightings that captured national attention were a classic case of mass hysteria.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/884xv3/the-colorado-mystery-drones-werent-real
Somehow I'm not surprised
The Colorado Mystery Drones Weren?t Real
The mysterious drone sightings that captured national attention were a classic case of mass hysteria.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/884xv3/the-colorado-mystery-drones-werent-real
Swamp gas...er...weather balloon...mirage...Bigfoot?
Wait, so the government wasn't lying this time?
Which is worse, Mass hysteria, or Mass amnesia?
https://media.giphy.com/media/Yl5aO3gdVfsQ0/giphy.gif
Somehow I'm not surprised
The Colorado Mystery Drones Weren?t Real
The mysterious drone sightings that captured national attention were a classic case of mass hysteria.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/884xv3/the-colorado-mystery-drones-werent-real
So CPDS cannot personally witness things that people allege to have witnessed in the past, so they must be fabricated.
Either that, or they can't find their dial to control the time-space continuum. Nobody will know until they find where bob put the "time-travel" dial.
Oh and only 27 of over 700 drone sightings by pilots were confirmed to be near-misses, so the rest were all hysteria too, because drone manufacturer DJI said all the other ones were unconfirmed (and thus, must be hysteria, according to the journalist.).
All - in all it ranks pretty high on click bait, bullshit journalism. 20 years ago the headline would've been "Mysterious drone sightings unconfirmed, remain a mystery..."
These are not the drones you're looking for.
.455_Hunter
01-31-2020, 14:33
I suspect a .mil or .gov program, for the exact reason shown below...
The Phillips County Sheriff's Office on Wednesday abruptly pulled back from a previous claim that authorities were looking for a "command vehicle" that might be controlling the drones witnesses have reported flying nighttime patterns in Colorado and Nebraska, saying in a Facebook post that the command vehicle information was no longer "pertinent or relevant."
"The Phillips County Sheriff's Office is not the task force and our jurisdiction does not extend past Phillips County, Colorado," the statement said, before adding that the office would no longer be making public statements about the drone situation.
https://www.denverpost.com/2020/01/08/colorado-sheriff-drone-command-vehicle/
BushMasterBoy
01-31-2020, 15:36
We have to keep secrets or the bad women will destruct us. Or destroy us. Or not give us none.
hollohas
01-31-2020, 17:45
These are not the drones you're looking for.
This sounds 100% like the state was Jedi mind tricked and told "these aren't the drones you're looking for"...
Beat ya. ;)
hollohas
01-31-2020, 17:55
I suspect a .mil or .gov program, for the exact reason shown below...
https://www.denverpost.com/2020/01/08/colorado-sheriff-drone-command-vehicle/I agree completely. There is no doubt there were plenty of false reports, especially after this went national news. There always are when thing go mainstream.
But there were drones flying grids, no doubt about it.
Although there were no reports of drones in the metro area, that's exactly why I started this thread. Because I saw three of them first hand immediately prior to this story hitting the news. What I saw over Lakewood was exactly what the initial reports described. They were low enough not to be mistaken. And my initial thought was they were .gov or mil. There is absolutely no private entity that could do this.
I'm not sure about a command vehicle though. From what I saw I'm not sure one could have kept up with them. It'd have to be capable of a pretty significant stand off distance. But admittedly, I don't know enough about these sorts of drones to actually know much about what it take to fly them.
.455_Hunter
01-31-2020, 19:52
What I saw over Lakewood was exactly what the initial reports described. They were low enough not to be mistaken.
As noted in the thread, I saw a single large unit above C-470 at Bandimere. Definitely not a chopper or plane, and way bigger than a hobby drone.
So, are these airplane-type drones? Or the multi-prop helicopter things?
Never seen any here, but when we went to Syracuse last June I saw some Predator-type drones flying around a few times over the city. Big ones. Didn't think much about it, see a lot of military stuff flying around there.
Disclosure: I haven't had a chance to read more than the first page of this stuff yet.
But since this is a lot of info, I was provided a link by a friend to this: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/34662/faa-documents-offer-unprecedented-look-into-colorado-drone-mystery
Published July 15, 2020
It looks like there is a relative consensus on the description which matches well what some saw here. - 6x6 with rotors and wings, flying large grid patterns.
The only bit of "new news" is that there's a lot of consensus about a bigger "mother ship" possibly with a bright light that would hover in place for hours in some kind of proximity to the drones. Anyone see that?
Well based on the descriptions, it doesn't sound like hobbyists. Sounds like it's either military (which they deny) or an OGA (who of course won't be talking about it).
My guess would be the "mothership" is a tx/rx base station with more power to send data longer distances and the drones themselves are sending their info back to it AND/OR they are being controlled from a connection to the larger one, assuming they don't have a pre-programmed flight pattern.
Well based on the descriptions, it doesn't sound like hobbyists. Sounds like it's either military (which they deny) or an OGA (who of course won't be talking about it).
My guess would be the "mothership" is a tx/rx base station with more power to send data longer distances and the drones themselves are sending their info back to it AND/OR they are being controlled from a connection to the larger one, assuming they don't have a pre-programmed flight pattern.
My logic engine agrees.
(not that it matters) [Coffee]
BushMasterBoy
07-17-2020, 15:49
I think it was the NNSA. The wing commander of FE Warren was transferred to the NNSA recently. She was given a star too. The geeks of Los Alamos get presented a problem and this probably their answer to drones interfering with our ICBM's. Personally I would just have the security forces armed with long barrel shotguns. Goose guns. The problem is the agencies sometimes wear their heart on their sleeve...read all about it on their home page. Between the lines.
https://www.energy.gov/nnsa/national-nuclear-security-administration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=xDnFn9Fj0j0&feature=emb_logo
Well based on the descriptions, it doesn't sound like hobbyists. Sounds like it's either military (which they deny) or an OGA (who of course won't be talking about it).
My guess would be the "mothership" is a tx/rx base station with more power to send data longer distances and the drones themselves are sending their info back to it AND/OR they are being controlled from a connection to the larger one, assuming they don't have a pre-programmed flight pattern.
And, if they are not working on a spoked network concept, but mesh, they *could* send info to each other to ultimately be sent by whichever one was closest to the "mothership".
So if they have a (for example) 1km tx/rx max distance, and there are 10 smaller ones, so long as they all are within 1km of the next .... back to the one which is closest to the mothership, they could cover a pretty good swath of ground.
Essentially a mesh network.
Covid-19 was to keep us inside so we wouldn't see the drones, right? [Sarcasm2]
eddiememphis
07-17-2020, 17:33
Essentially a mesh network.
Covid-19 was to keep us inside so we wouldn't see the drones, right? [Sarcasm2]
When that didn't work, they unleashed the bears!
If it's testing for drone defense but the drones are meshed and anything but fully autonomous it doesn't make sense to me. The best defense for drones would appear to be signal jamming, which we already possess the technology for. Unless somehow the child drones have very high gain, very directional antennas that they can keep perfectly aligned with equally directional antennas on the mothership or something *shrug*. Even then, I never was a sig guy so that might be easily jammed too.
If they were developing defenses for autonomous drones, it might make slightly more sense. At any rate, the reliable and very large grid patterns also doesn't make a whole lot of sense in the "drone defense" category. Everything is possible, ofc.
I almost wonder it's some kind of mission to prototype sensor technology (military or private) in the direction of ground-penetrating radar or something, that they clearly cannot do on the up and up in either circumstance; whether the technology soon becomes public or not, flights over 20 miles of farmlands would have all sorts of constitutional issues with any kind of ground-penetrating sensory. So, maybe they just did it and played dumb.
And if that theory is correct, certain assets that others have lost in lakes over the years might be floating all over the place. [mop]
hollohas
07-17-2020, 18:38
It looks like there is a relative consensus on the description which matches well what some saw here. - 6x6 with rotors and wings, flying large grid patterns.
The only bit of "new news" is that there's a lot of consensus about a bigger "mother ship" possibly with a bright light that would hover in place for hours in some kind of proximity to the drones. Anyone see that?There was no sign of a mothership when I saw them. The drones I saw were traveling parallel to Kipling in the opposite direction as me. If there was a mothership that had to stay within a certain distance as them, I suspect it would have been visible.
My best guess, as I said initially, was some sort of mapping. Mapping is the only reason for the steady pattern and staggered formation that I can think of that makes sense.
Or, the local defense contractors testing just capabilities. Maybe that's more likely since they were flying over nothing in particular.
hollohas
07-17-2020, 18:39
Covid-19 was to keep us inside so we wouldn't see the drones, right? [Sarcasm2]
Haha!
There was no sign of a mothership when I saw them. The drones I saw were traveling parallel to Kipling in the opposite direction as me. If there was a mothership that had to stay within a certain distance as them, I suspect it would have been visible.
My best guess, as I said initially, was some sort of mapping. Mapping is the only reason for the steady pattern and staggered formation that I can think of that makes sense.
Or, the local defense contractors testing just capabilities. Maybe that's more likely since they were flying over nothing in particular.
Another possibility I just considered is they may not all be from one source. E.g. some kind of DARPA type of competition that has clearances attached (or whatever)... Obviously hard to speculate but it's also strange how distributed this was across several states. Some claim to have observed the "mothership" landing at a Nebraska airport, and lots of reports of seeing it with the drones in Nebraska, but it seems lacking over here.
hollohas
07-17-2020, 19:51
I hadn't thought of that. That theory makes sense to me. Especially with the varied descriptions.
Birds aren't real...but drones are. He specifically mentions sightings over Colorado in 2019.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4Wf_vvdHLOs
BushMasterBoy
11-01-2024, 10:19
I used to work on this equipment. They are testing this system against drones. Since I can't afford a jammer, I prefer a long barrel shotgun and a bandolier of shells.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_countermeasure
battlemidget
11-01-2024, 17:33
I tend to think that it's us. We gotta R&D the good stuff somewhere, right?
BushMasterBoy
11-01-2024, 18:59
I tend to think that it's us. We gotta R&D the good stuff somewhere, right?
You are right. Real world testing. Only way to get real results.
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