Posted on 07/16/2020 11:10:18 AM PDT by CedarDave
As covered in previous reports by The War Zone, law enforcement agencies in numerous rural counties in eastern Colorado and adjacent areas of Nebraska and Kansas received an influx of reports of large drones flying in formations at night for a period of several weeks during December 2019 and early January 2020. Many law enforcement personnel were among the reporting witnesses. In short order, the “mystery drone” wave also elicited serious expressions of concern from at least two U.S. senators and attention from Colorado’s governor and state public safety agency. The activity soon drew the attention of regional and later national news media, as well.
Now, The War Zone can offer an unprecedented inside look at what was going on behind the scenes within the FAA, which was leading a task force to solve the drone mystery. Not only is the confusion within the agency made clear, but we now have multiple highly credible official reports from trained observers from the timeframe when the objects were present in the region. Many of them match to a remarkable degree and they allude to a unique arrangement in which a large drone seems to have been accompanied by a fleet of smaller ones. We also have the latest conclusions, or lack thereof, of what the FAA thinks actually was happening over those peculiar weeks last winter.
Over the past several months, Douglas D. Johnson, a volunteer researcher affiliated with the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies (SCU), has utilized the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to obtain many hundreds of pages of emails and other pertinent documents from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and other federal agencies regarding the mystery-drone flap and has made them available to The War Zone. In addition, hundreds of additional relevant pages have been located, but are still being processed by the FAA. The FAA is also currently withholding some key documents, citing FOIA exemptions.
Nevertheless, the documents already released suggest that the FAA, despite a short-lived, but strenuous effort, was unable to determine the origin of the flying formations of sizable aerial devices reported by many credible witnesses in December and January. Senior FAA officials were able, however, to conclude that "there is high confidence these are not covert military activities."
The released documents contain no evidence that any federal criminal laws were broken by whoever was operating the devices, although the FAA has withheld at least one key document discussing the legal issues surrounding the case. No document yet released suggests that the mystery drones ever encroached on any U.S. military installation, or even into any airspace that was under special FAA restrictions.
In a statement to The War Zone, Johnson summarized his impressions after months of research into a subject that he still considers far from closed:
"For at least a couple of weeks, the mystery drone flap had the serious attention of top FAA leaders, and at least two U.S. senators. The FAA assigned apparently capable investigators, and mobilized resources from multiple FAA components. The assistance provided by other federal agencies such as the FBI, DHS, and military was apparently quite limited, because of the absence of evidence of criminal intent, or of a proximate threat to military assets or other critical infrastructure. Once the aerial activity stopped, it appears that both federal and state agencies quickly dropped the matter - I have not yet seen any evidence of a continuing federal investigation, although there are many documents still not released."
Don’t forget swamp gas and center fuel tank explosions. Also Venus /s
Yeah, that’s the ticket /s
“I hope they were wearing masks?!”
-Karen
LOL!
Drug cartels.
” Maybe to gauge how stealthy or noticeable they are over civilian populations. “
They seems to have flunked the stealth test by including bright lights on some of them.
“Drug cartels.”
Mapping out farm land in ne Colorado by flying laborious circuit patterns every night for weeks? Must be planning some really huge cannabis operations. Has anyone checked to see if they applied for growing permits yet? /s
“federal representatives advised local officials that it is a violation of federal law to shoot at an aircraft”
Dear Feds, screw you.
“Drug cartels.”
Flying drones in formation over Colorado and Nebraska? In the middle of nowhere?
I was thinking more along the lines of making deliveries or scouting routes. I may have missed it in the article, but I don’t recall any mention of the size of the drones. Some drones are large enough to carry “packages;” hell, isn’t Amazon making deliveries via drone now, or Fed Ex, or UPS?
I answered the question in another post. It is just speculation.
The full article at The Drive gives several estimates of size. Worth reading. I haven’t been to the comment section yet but those generally worthwhile as well.
Sounds like one of those federal laws that wants local nullification.
Like immigration law, the controlled substance acts, etc...
Yeah, but I wasn’t going to read all 200 pages.
CCP seeding the virus?
I blame the Black Hebrew Nazis.
They have the technology.
To get any appreciable range out of drones they must be large enough to carry a fuel source or an impressive battery bank which would make them large. Doubt these are all predator type drones or amazon delivery level drones flying way out in the country. A fuel driven drone would emit way more than a 'drone like' prop whir. Maybe musk got tired of playing with cars batteries and switched to drones.
Without knowing where the drones came from or where they went, it is impossible to guess the duration of their flight or their potential range.
They have the anti-gravity drive that helps a lot.
More seriously, It says in the article that DJI offered to help with the investigation onsite. I know FCC was involved in radio frequency analysis, and a FLIR-equipped aircraft (probably RADAR, too) was used. No headway on any good explanation. Then the sightings just stopped.
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