DRONES. Updated.

Someone asked - What's with the drones? Great question! 

I think that there are several things happening at one time and this overlap is creating the general chaos.  Here is the possibles as I see them.

NOTE: As a reminder people are seeing more than one type and size of object. The tendency is to bundle those together to form a single object group and thus explain away all of the sightings. People are seeing drone-like objects behaving in drone like manners, people are seeing glowing spherical orb like lights of a single color or a combination of shifting other colors, and people are seeing, and misidentifying, normal manned and unmanned aircraft.

 A. This is a Top-Secret military effort to search out infiltrated materials or craft for the purposes of surveillance, covert ops, or similar actions. This explains the objects/crafts that are unrecognized, silent, and the like. This explains the black out by FAA over crucial areas in NJ and NY and over W-P AFB in Ohio. It explains the clusters of reports along border areas of New England, the Pacific NW, Florida and TX. 

 B. There are regular drones being flown, perhaps part of the task of "A" or a diversionary process to allow officials to say, "see nothing here!"  

C.  There are objects seen, videoed, and reported that do not fit the descriptions of known craft, drones, or other objects. They do not have standard required FAA flight anti-collision lights or operate according to FAA standards as a drone or plane. These are being seen over military and restricted air space.  It is very easy to gather together an arm load of "reports" or "videos" and find one that can be identified and then use it to explain everything else. That was a tried-and-true method of the old Project Blue Book days. The time has come to be more transparent: if other countries are making incursions into the airspace and skies of this country without permission we need to know. 

The drone is everyone's headache. Most security measures are built on the standard plane sized and plane acting aerial objects. Radar and other security have not been designed to identify or respond to something the size of a bird - or smaller. This Smithsonian article details spy drones the size of hamsters or ones that can fit in the palm of a hand. 

Small drones have begun to be used in coordinated sky shows - like mechanical fireworks - they form huge colorful forms and move to music in choregraphed and graceful movements. If something is invented human history tells us that it will not be long before that innovation is used for entertainment or tactical warfare/covert operations applications.  These introduce gaps and holes in security and the potential for groups to infiltrate and subvert the safeguards keeping citizens and infrastructure secure.

The most common comments heard include "they are ours", "they all have FAA lights", and "they are mis-identifications."  If this was the case - why shut down air space? Why invoke the threat of force to shoot them down? Why are they all not properly displaying the lights, flags, colors required by the FAA? Why have people been videoing strange darting lights - usually all white and spherical - in vastly removed and often low populated areas for most of this year?

People are beginning to glance up from their phones into the sky and yes they are misinterpreting planets, meteors, stars, planes, Starlink, the ISS, and yes, even balloons.   They are also downloading apps to phones to identify what the Steller object is, what the plane is, etc. 

They are capturing grainy, poor, auto-focus images but they are also capturing crystal clear videos of lights moving in non-traditional ways and returning night after night. 

If unknown objects are flying around from who knows where - we need to know. 

If something is going on which could potentially impact the freedom and life of American citizens - we need to know.

If there is a need for widespread practice maneuvers over crucial installations, infrastructure sites, and other potential targets - we need to know.  Maybe not the details but just a statement to make people aware that there will be "things" flying around.

We need to be prepared, allowed to process, and to accept any new reality that awaits. We are not children, and our parents do not need to protect us - that is how we grow and how we can find who we are as people, as cultures, and as a species.

 #drones #UAPs

FAA Drone regulations page

MUFON Recaps Drone Events (Dec 12).

MUFON TV DRONE DOC

A thought provoking video - 

Same Old Song - Different Verse?

In mid-December 2019 reports of clusters of up to 17 drones flying grid0like patterns across northeastern Colorado first emerged.  Then reports from Western and southwestern Nebraska and then northwestern Kansas by the early days of January 2020.

Drones -estimated at between 4-6 feet in wingspan - that no one could identify. The government, the military, various security agencies and private industry had no knowledge of them and did not know where they came from. 

They skimmed the boundary of legal presence - and with some one million plus drones registered with the FAA in the U.S. - these apparently were not among them.

Many headline lurkers (those who read only as deep as the headline) suggested hobby groups and imagined the drones as the one to two foot drone size favored by that group of persons. The costs alone limit the size for those wishing to use them as hobby equipment. When talking about 4-6 foot wingspan, then some serious dollars are involved. Who would have enough to send out groups of up to 17 at one time and possibly in multiple locations?

I heard one retired military individual say that this was like the whole UFO situation and now we have "drone hysteria."  I chuckled on hearing that one. A common thread, as I have written about before on this blog, was the tune cranked out by early government, military and media men about the "panic", the "hysteria", and the fear being created by the sightings of the "flying disks" and then later the "UFO's."   Oddly, the only real hysteria seemed to originate in the fevered imaginations of the government and military in response to people concerned, puzzled, and maybe a little nervous. The only hysteria and panic the news people reported was that spun by their wildly spun rhetoric to sell more papers.

Now, well, guess what? The Air Force might be behind it? Read Here. 


The great Halloween Prank of Orson Wells with his creative newscast portrayal of "The War of the Worlds" is often sited as an example of what might happen again and the utter chaos that reckless truth telling might engender.  The truth be told the impact of that event was more limited than news writers and gossips shared. Events and reactions were often limited to very small geographic areas and involved a limited number of people.  Forget the image of thousands fleeing the cities ala some 1950's Sci-Fic movie as the creeping monster slinks into the city center - it was never that.

The open exchange of information called for in the post 9/11 days has obviously been forgotten. When the Department of Defense said they did not know anything about  the drones.....well was that truth or just business as usual?

So, are the drones but another verse of the same old song of convince anyone who sees anything they are being hysterical and minimize all aspects to placate some panic reaction that will not happen.

I, for one, will be interested to see how this all unfolds.