[noiseman]

My strong suspicion, because of the inexplicable lack of interest in getting to the bottom of this by military officials, is that these drones belong to either the military or the intelligence agencies. However, in making their cover statements that the drones don’t belong to the military, that they’re not hobbyist drones, and that they are not from a foreign power, they’ve essentially said that they don’t belong to anyone.

So I guess that makes it fine and dandy to shoot these things down since no one wants to claim ownership. Blast away!

[Red Badger]

[Saintgermain]

A 30/06 can cover quite a distance and would be difficult to track from a long distance away. If they belong to the US government all they have to do is confirm it and tell the public to leave them alone instead of playing stupid guessing games what they like to do

[flamberge]

My strong suspicion, because of the inexplicable lack of interest in getting to the bottom of this by military officials, is that these drones belong to either the military or the intelligence agencies.

Or private corporations under contract to those same agencies. That would maintain "plausible deniability" when the military says, "they are not ours".

It smells like a complex agency psyop (psychological operation) to me.

Per Federal laws, it is still illegal to shoot them down, regardless of source. How convenient.