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I mean they're really out there. But there's also mass hysteria of people claiming anything with nav lights in the sky is a drone.
They're flying over military facilities and places owned by the President and the Pentagon doesn't care tho?
It's US shit doing stuff they don't want us to know about so we won't.
It also seems like a convenient bogeyman for lots of politicians looking for clout to go "This is unacceptable!" while knowing them shouting and stamping their feet won't amount to anything. But they need to be seen shouting and stamping their feet so their constituents know they're a "free thinker" who "tells it like it is." Knowing full well that no answers are forthcoming, but they can be seen making "transparency" demands around things that don't actually matter, while promoting the idea that they care about "transparency."
I live far away from where all of this is happening, so I was hoping some Lemmings might live in NJ and have a more personal experience and thoughts to share.
Yes, I've been flying drones across the deleware river to prank y'all. Get pranked!
/jk
My speculation is: (this is purely a speculation)
There was one or two drones that was flying around, possibly kids messing around, possibly military drone tests, then, with that "unidentified drone" news in mind, people just see lights in the sky from planes take off or on approach to landing and then they would look like "drones" floating, when its a fucking commercial jetliner!
People seeing what they want to see, or are making things up for attention. I could just film a plane on a shitty phone and use the zoom camera all the way onto plane, add a bit a shaky cam effect by intentionally shaking the phone, then post on social media "OMG ALIENS!"
Y'all think the US military let foreign drones or aliens in the airspace and not shoot it down or jam it?
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I just want one reporter to ask "Can you confirm that if this was indeed a top secret military program in development, that your first response would be to deny it was the military to keep the program secure?"
Like stop asking if it's the military, get to the point and ask if you'd be told to deny it if it was the military.
Personally, I think it's ramping up for a drone surveillance state in the US. As the homeland security administrator said, they've been concerned about how people talk on the internet for some time, long before Luigi Mangione popped off. They've viewed their own citizens as the enemy for a long time now, and the mask has been slipping hard.
"I can neither confirm nor deny..."
could just film a plane on a shitty phone and use the zoom camera all the way onto plane, add a bit a shaky cam effect by intentionally shaking the phone, then post on social media βOMG ALIENS!β
I did this to a friend once lol I was walking on one of those days you can see the moon during the day and since there was a clear sky I just zoomed in and shook my phone a bit to make it appear to be moving lol
Itβs nothing. David Foster Wallace wrote in his novel taking place in the IRS: βAbstruse dullness is actually a much more effective shield than is secrecy. For the great disadvantage of secrecy is that itβs interesting.β
IMHO it's just a distraction from the CEO class war
I think some people believe that life is like a movie, and anything remotely weird they're unable to explain off-hand is evidence of something extraordinary when it is quite mundane. Some people notice something, word gets out on social media, and then other people start to look at the sky more and notice things. There's even a word for this phenomenon, it's called the Baader-Meinhof effect. If I were to create a spy drone, I wouldn't design it to have navigation lights so that it can be easily seen by people. The first video I saw was without any context and was pretty blurry but even then, I saw that it was very obviously just a drone.
90% mass hysteria, 10% random people flying drones for fun.
Most videos I've seen are people misidentifying airplanes as drones, and even if they are drones... they sell those on Amazon.
We'll probably be seeing this in other places soon. They upload pictures of "Drones over X city in Y state!" that is clearly just an airplane, and do it a few dozen times. Now when there's real drone activity, when people search, the AI enhanced search engines will pull the most popular results, not the most current or accurate. Now the common consensus will be, "Oh, it's just another plane probably." Drones over cities become commonplace, and everyone is used to another layer of police state from clear blue skies.