Wer wie ich gerne Flugzeuge beobachtet und in Städten mit großen Flughäfen lebt, wird diese in Lumpen präsentierten Bilder als geheimnisvolle Drohnen zweifellos als völlig normal wiedererkennen:
Und das Beste zum Schluss …
- Ein absurd falsch identifiziertes Beispiel – eine Boeing V-22 Osprey, die von den US-Marines eingesetzt wird! Wenn Sie Beweise wollen, Hier ist der Wiki-Artikel zum Flugzeug.
Nicht jedes Beispiel wird falsch interpretiert (einige sind echt), Doch die Berichterstattung nähert sich mittlerweile einer absurden Hysterie. Zumindest gibt es keine "Hexen" brennen.
Judging by images appearing in the popular press, many of these "mysterious" drones are misinterpreted aircraft. Examples in text.
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I really feels like some people are looking at the sky for the first time in their lives. It’s amazing how ignorant Americans have become.
I have not seen a single video that actually looks like a drone, they’re all obviously airplanes or helicopters.
I figured it was just some sort of hysteria. Reddit is pushing it hard.
undoubtedly most of the videos are fake but i dont doubt theres been an increase in drone activity or at least attention to it
there was an NY airport that had to shut down for an hour according to the NY government
The current drone craze is just mass hysteria that is happening in real time as we all watch. Just like the Salem witch trials, War of the Worlds radio broadcast, and Y2K. Don’t fall for it. Just sit back, relax, and realize how primitive human beings still are as a species.
Reddit is spamming my feed with ufo and alien subs about these, topics with 10k upvotes, hundreds of comments and….
They’re all just planes. The lights match plane lights, and in the comments they’re taken near airports. For the closer ones, there is no sound – so you can’t hear the engines.
Every year around now there’s a ton of „NEXT YEAR IS THE YEAR WE GET DISCLOSURE, 100%“ and then the year passes and, obviously, nothing. But the cycle repeats without anyone making those posts noticing they’re just repeating themselves, year to year to year.
What about this?
https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/s/aiyjq8I7Cj
There may not be any „witches to burn,“ but I saw a video of a guy firing a rifle at one of these „drones.“ Enough hysteria and Bubba and his AR-15 might get a „lucky“ shot and either kill someone or bring down an entire airliner.
Every one I’ve seen has had clear navigation lights. Can’t always tell exactly *what* it is, but whatever it is, isn’t hiding.
The lack of similar events around the rest of the world has made these sightings very unimportant to me. What, aliens are only invading the US? Is this a hollywood movie?
All the latest examples of UFOs and NHI craft have all been, as OP stated, human made aircraft, I saw a pic somewhere of a helicopter, that people were claiming was a UFO(technically correct since they didn’t know what it was), yet it was human made aircraft.
Idk what’s been happening lately, another Redditor chalked it up to a type of hysteria. Which, in itself is kind of cool to watch happen in real time. As long as it remains bloodless hysteria, I’ll just enjoy the show.
THEY’RE EATING THE DOGS!
This really has the flavor of a ginned up panic that will be used to justify funding some new „agency“ or commision to study them.
Same thing happened with that UFO crap. The dude that testified to congress about all the supposed sightings got a boatload of money to set up a department to figure them out. (One was a goose, the other was camera artifacts)
This is the same kind of people trying to fight fema or voting for the space laser lady. It’s pathetic really.
I’m sure many people don’t realize that airplane have „headlights“, and numerous other bright lights.
People are looking up for the first time and noticing that there is a lot of stuff moving around.
I live relatively close to an airport, and I’ll often see lights or shapes in the sky that don’t make sense. They’re moving the wrong way, or don’t look like anything I’ve ever seen before…
…then I figure out the perspective and realize it’s just a normal airplane. Very occasionally, that epiphany never comes, because it disappears behind a tree, or a cloud, or something… but I’m pretty sure those were just normal airplanes too.
Who wants to bet its a foreign psy op testing the boundaries of how easily Americans can be manipulated in social media?
Yeah, that’s the case with all the big UFO flaps. Maybe one in twenty people who report them have anything interesting to post.
The users over in r/aviation seem to be having a great time with it though. They live for identifying aircraft from blurry photos.
I’m pretty sure aliens wouldn’t have FAA regulated lights on them
New Jersey officials held a press conference today saying they have no idea what the drones are and demanding answers and help from the federal government.
Yeah perfect example of Occam’s Razor.
Though admittedly, if these were nothing other than misinterpreted airplanes and various other aircraft, I do not see the need for media to pick it up, let alone local law enforcement and FBI. Some of these are likely actual drones as many have reported them flying quite low. But more eyes in the sky means more reports from people that aren’t used to looking up, resulting in plenty of false positives. And to those that dont known any better, they might as well be UFOs.
My personal uneducated opinion: its a stress test. Could be another country testing response times.
My personal wish: NJ is first contact ground zero haha :‘)
Yeeeaaah, I do plane spotting as hobby. I know what these are, been watching them for months. I’m not going to say what or how I know exactly because I consider myself a true patriot (without any political implications of the word, please) and you don’t have to take my word for it but I assure you that…
..all this hysteria is like the funniest thing ever. The people freaking out are daft as heck. Let them panic, it’s going to be even funnier when it comes out.
My best bet is that a company like Lockheed is testing drone/aircraft signature recognition from a new radar tech on behalf of the US government.
Multiple drones and aircrafts were observed in a specific zone. The FBI launched an investigation, and the US gov told us they were not theirs. I mean, I’m pretty sure that those people are not all nuts, and that would explain everything since the war in Ukraine changed the paradigm about Drones and stuff; armies have to adjust their tech.
They’re also misidentifying a lot of migratory birds. Which is kinda sad.
I’m an avid follower of UFO stuff, it’s been like that since I was a child. „I want to believe“, I guess ! But 99% of all the posts are so sad. People unable to recognize planes; ultra-light aircrafts; drones… Okay, why not. But also misidentifying stars, planets, the moon, common animals (owls, birds, etc), that is super depressing regarding the state of our civilization
It’s the same sort of person that put those stupid mirror monoliths around or the crop circle people. Just people with time and money to burn.
no witches to burn but some planes to shoot. What, president-elect asked to do it!
Many or all? What about the ones coming out of the water?
I just want to mention that when I was younger living in Mexico, during a time of political and social stress, the media created a similar hysteria around the sightings of the Chupacabra. The presidente de México, Salinas de Gortari, had just fled the country with millions from the Mexican people. It was a very difficult time, the Mexican peso lost its value and the anger from the people against the political system was clear. The killing of the CEO last week makes me wonder…
https://www.newsweek.com/drone-sightings-new-york-stewart-airport-kathy-hochul-2000891
Are we suggesting that air traffic controllers can’t differentiate between drones and aircraft?
It’s just a couple of military bases sending each other BBQ sandwiches
I’ve seen a number of videos/photos that are just commercial aircraft, local helicopters, legit drones *(power line/window washer, delivery, survey, etc…).* And the modern state of AI makes it so I don’t believe the whole „Orb“ thing. This is people who don’t know how to look at the sky and identify what they see so they see fright everywhere.
That’s not to say there isn’t ALSO something droney going on. Maybe well funded distraction from the fact we hate greedy CEOs?
Also, there’s a glut of information available at your fingertips, with free apps like Flightaware. Whenever I’m curious what I’m seeing, I just pop the app open.
No, not every aircraft shows up, I realize that- but it always gives me useful data about the airspace around me.
A lot of UFOs in photos and videos are suspiciously shaped like the camera’s internal optics.
almost every clip I’ve seen is obviously a plane. I think this is mass hysteria by people who’ve never looked up at night.
Here’s the problem. If you work in aviation you understand how deadly serious they are about regulations. If you have worked with the military you understand how deadly serious they are. When you’ve worked with military intelligence you understand how capable they are. When multiple NATO countries such as the US, the UK, and Germany are all having official press briefings saying it is happening at their bases and sensitive facilities; you can sort of take that to the bank. People can be misidentifying things and instead of laughing and making jokes the experts should be educating and helping. I promise none of the joke makers have spent billions of dollars with hundreds of thousands or millions(when combined) of people looking into this like those governments have. So, just maybe, you’re not working with the same level of info and we should take them at their word. We can all agree most people are looking up from their cellphones for the first time in their lives. But that doesn’t make what’s happening any less real. It’s not just quacks and idiots when the Pentagon and MoD are saying it IMO.
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Some people are foolish, some are malicious, but even the well intentioned and sensible find it difficult to capture images of far away objects in the night sky. Still, take a little time to look past the blatant misidentification, and it is obvious that something quite odd is happening.
>At least there aren’t „witches“ to burn.
Generally they hanged witches. (though not always) Burning was more for heretics. At least in the English speaking nations.
It’s mass panic. I live in the Sierra foothills of California in a rural area and a few days ago several people reported a „large, low, loud drone“ passing over their house. Started a whole bunch of drama… Until it was found to be a medical helo responding to a call up country… People are easily panicked sheep