Hobby Level Drones
Small, usually under 20 lbs., short battery length.
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Military Drones
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Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk, Surveillance aircraft
Someone asked - What's with the drones? Great question!
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
MUFON Recaps Drone Events (Dec 12).
A thought provoking video -
Screen shot of video footage cleared for public release and shared by Dr. Kirkpatrick during Wednesday’s Senate hearing on UAP, filmed with electro-optical sensors on board an MQ-9 Reaper drone over the Middle East (Credit: DOD/AARO). In this film clip a silver spherical object moves across the frame. Given the source - the military and the government - this is a hard to debunk clip.
The images were hits in newsreels, magazines, and all attempts at debunking any and all reports of unidentified flying objects. Long before there was any such project envisioned military and governments claimed they had "flying saucers" and they were really just radical experimental designs.
In late 1956 and 1957 the USAF entered a contract with the Avro Aircraft Ltd. company to design and construct a working prototype of an aircraft able to transcend some specific or particular issues. The AF was aware of the limitations of existing traditional landing and take-off situations - long runaway, wider runways, needing thicker and thicker substructure construction for the increased weight and loads of aircraft. They liked the idea of vertical take-offs and landing and explored numerous designs in early helicopter and vertical takeoff craft.
In February of 1955 "Project Silver Bug" seemed a viable solution. In the report to the USAF of that date they explained that the resulting disc shaped craft was not influenced by science fiction or accounts of objects in the skies but from designers and technical types trying to answer the Air Force's specified need for "dispersed base operations." They needed a craft that could get in and get out without the long runway hindrance.
A result was PROJECT 1794 aka Project Silver Bug.
Does the parallel reveal a more bizarre history than other locations? The map seems to change depending on the amount earth curvature goes into the map. Some show a line at the Kansas-Nebraska border while others show the same line at the Kanas and Oklahoma borders. Bad geography or something else?
Landmarks on the 37th parallel include --
Colorado City, Arizona; the Four Corners at the intersection with the 32nd meridian west from Washington (the only place where four U.S. states meet at a point);
Cairo, Illinois;
Bowling Green, Kentucky; and
Newport News, and Hampton, Virginia. It enters the Chesapeake Bay at the northernmost tunnel entrance / exit of the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel and the southernmost point of Old Point Comfort on the former Army base, Ft. Monroe.
The question may be: is there a less US-centric way of looking at the issue? Based on all US cases they appear to occur within the 40-30 parallel range. This seems to reflect cases from Asia and Europe as well.
Where would the South America, African, and Australian cases fall? Would a similar grouping be found there? What might those results indicate? What could be learned from looking at it globally?
In the 1950s and 1960s reports of UFOs they tended to be seen them moving NW to SE or the reverse. SW to the NE was another frequent route. Were they using a circumpolar path? Are there similar trends in other nations that might add to this information and provided some additional clues?
The description of the book is short. "My research began with hosting the Heaven's Gate people before they were Heaven's Gate. I went on to work for seven years with Jacque Vallee. He was portrayed as the French scientist in the movie, 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' Vallee and I traveled around the U.S. and around the world researching cattle mutilations, UFO sightings and abductions."
Finally, the book was the work of Barbara Bartholic (Author), Peggy Fielding (Contributor). Bartholic was Tulsa, Oklahoma's well recognized UFO investigator and researcher. She used hypnosis and regression techniques as analytical tools. When troubled people who suspected UFO abduction in their pasts, learned of her work, they were (says the book blurb) relieved that there is someone whom they can call out to for help.
Bartholic, who was nationally, even internationally, known for her work in the field, also produced a number of video documentaries and written materials covering the UFO experiences of people from all over the U.S.
Peggy Fielding is a writer and teacher of writers. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma and taught writing at Tulsa Community College. She has degrees from Central State University in Edmond, Oklahoma and the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, R.P. She is the author of several nonfiction books, two novels, hundreds of short stories and articles in local and national magazines.
It is interesting to compare this work with the work of Dr. John E. Mack, an American scientist who studied personality and related fields at Harvard, who traveled globally to study the ufo/abductee phenomena.
As a researcher who has poured over original documents, digitized copies, and explored many an archive and newspaper morgue, I have a broad understanding of the role of skepticism as it applies to the field of the unexplained.
J. Allen Hynek wrote in the early 1970's that the official stance to odd things reported was "such and such cannot happen" and therefore "it did not happen." The process of scientific exploration was sidelined.
Reviewing some past rebuttals in the historic record reveals some common behaviors.
1. Reject the Idea of anything out of the normal. This is clear when reports and news accounts are rejected and rebutted without anyone actually investigating.
2. Offer up A Substitute Explanation. It does not need to fit just throw it against the wall and see if it sticks.
3. Repeat as Needed.
In recent years, this routine has reappeared. This time the hecklers have expanded to social media, pod casts, etc.
Scenario #1- Person X shares a strange object they saw in the skies to an online social platform. Immediate responses showing the people had not read the entry in total (with mentions of directional changes, etc.). The posts - "it's a satellite"; "rolling eyes" graphic; "I knew the conspiracy nuts would show up!"
Scenario #2 - Person on Y shares a strange object and they KNOW what it was. The galactic overlords have arrived! They post an image that is clearly Starlinks, Falcon 9, etc. Yet, despite the informative posts they refuse to listen and accuse those voices of trying to silence the truth.
In many ways these are similar situations. In ech case is a lack of an open mind, willing to learn, test new ideas, and find facts.
Too much at either end of this spectrum is unhealthy to expanding human knowledge. The extremes are where the concept of "faith" or "science" takes over in oddly similar religious-like devotion. The skeptics worship a never changing science and the other extreme believes anything.
Target somewhere in the middle....
