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You found Uncle Jimbo.Quote:
Originally Posted by kidicarus13
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/sciencet...g-display.html
They didn't invent the drone "lightshow".
Remember the 2017 Super Bowl halftime show?
https://www.wired.com/2017/02/lady-g...e-show-drones/
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/color...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.
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-zon...o-and-nebraska
Not 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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Justin
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
https://kdvr.com/2020/01/13/state-pl...east-colorado/
Stars? Atmospheric conditions? Really?Quote:
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.
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"...
How does he get to the bottom of something when he already is usually the bottom?Quote:
Originally Posted by eddiememphis
Noticed weather ballon is missing from the list.
NiceQuote:
Originally Posted by hollohas
MIB. Swamp gas.
Repeat the lie often enough, and it will become truth.
Several spotted over my neighborhood last night. I think they were recreational.
Watch, this is going to turn out to be viral marketing for some netflix show about drones.
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...
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.
nuts, i was hoping for a cool tv show.
That sounds plausible to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by hollohas
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!Quote:
Originally Posted by TRnCO
You should consider setting up a trust with your assets to more easily transfer to your family, just in case.Quote:
Originally Posted by NFATrustGuy
[Coffee]Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
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/8...es-werent-real
Swamp gas...er...weather balloon...mirage...Bigfoot?Quote:
Originally Posted by babarsac
Wait, so the government wasn't lying this time?
Which is worse, Mass hysteria, or Mass amnesia?
So CPDS cannot personally witness things that people allege to have witnessed in the past, so they must be fabricated.Quote:
Originally Posted by babarsac
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.
I suspect a .mil or .gov program, for the exact reason shown below...
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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/2020/01/0...mmand-vehicle/
We have to keep secrets or the bad women will destruct us. Or destroy us. Or not give us none.
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Originally Posted by Justin
Beat ya. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by hollohas
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by .455_Hunter
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by hollohas