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Officials Believe Many Drone Sightings Are ‘Cases of Mistaken Identity’
Flying Magazine ^ | 12 16 2024 | Jack Daleo

Posted on 12/17/2024 7:51:10 AM PST by yesthatjallen

FBI, FAA, and federal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials believe the vast majority of sightings of mysterious drones on the U.S. East Coast are “cases of mistaken identity.”

Agency officials on Saturday addressed reporters at a White House briefing, concluding that there is no evidence of “large-scale UAS [uncrewed aircraft systems] activities.”

“You can’t ignore the sightings that have been there, and we are concerned about those just as much as anybody else is,” the FBI official said. “But I think there has been a slight overreaction.”

The agencies believe many witnesses on the ground have been misidentifying normal, crewed airplanes as drones. The UAS may even be drones flying legally. The FAA has registered nearly 800,000 of them, about half of which are recreational models flown by hobbyists, such as for photography.

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TOPICS: UFO's
KEYWORDS: drones; fringe; newsfromgroversmill; ohsomysteriouso; uap; ufo; ufos
Jack Daleo (Author) "Jack is a staff writer covering advanced air mobility, including everything from drones to unmanned aircraft systems to space travel—and a whole lot more. He spent close to two years reporting on drone delivery for FreightWaves, covering the biggest news and developments in the space and connecting with industry executives and experts."
1 posted on 12/17/2024 7:51:10 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Mass hysteria. Everything in the sky is a “drone”.


2 posted on 12/17/2024 7:52:42 AM PST by Signalman (When your enemy is digging himself a hole, don't take away his shovel)
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To: yesthatjallen
FBI, FAA, and federal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials believe the vast majority of sightings of mysterious drones on the U.S. East Coast are “cases of mistaken identity.”

Just like the thousands of mistaken eyewitnesses who saw a missile strike TWA Flight 800.

3 posted on 12/17/2024 7:53:17 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: yesthatjallen

So these commercial drones have super bright lights on them? They accelerate at high G rates?


4 posted on 12/17/2024 8:00:47 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Signalman

I remember the UFO nonsense of the 1960s. A university professor took his students into a darkened room. Each had a pencil and paper. When the lights were out he projected a small beam of light on the wall and told the students to follow the light with pencil on paper.
When examined the students had various ways in which the light had traveled, some really wild!
Problem, the small beam of light never moved. All movement was the imagination of the students.


5 posted on 12/17/2024 8:04:28 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: yesthatjallen
"Officials Believe Many Drone Sightings Are ‘Cases of Mistaken Identity’"

What about the remaining drones that officials refuse to explain?

6 posted on 12/17/2024 8:05:06 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: Signalman

Drone Hysteria ,LOL


7 posted on 12/17/2024 8:09:26 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I remember the UFO nonsense of the 1960s. A university professor took his students into a darkened room. Each had a pencil and paper. When the lights were out he projected a small beam of light on the wall and told the students to follow the light with pencil on paper.
When examined the students had various ways in which the light had traveled, some really wild!
Problem, the small beam of light never moved. All movement was the imagination of the students.


There was a lot of good research back then that needs to be reveiwed.

another was is the game of rumor

https://www.studocu.com/en-us/document/central-washington-university/social-psychology/rumor-theory-and-characteristics/6887129

The characteristics of the rumor are:

It’s short, simple and important

It ends up as a “good story.

“No matter the original source, it’s always attributed to someone important to make it look true

It coincides with the traditions of the group where it circulates

Express community needs and emotion


8 posted on 12/17/2024 8:13:09 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are not longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: yesthatjallen

I saw a TV news report about the drones and they put circles around them to help the viewer track them on the video. Most of the ones they tracked were flashing red and green aircraft-type anti-collision lights.

I’m not saying there aren’t actual drones though.


9 posted on 12/17/2024 8:19:31 AM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: yesthatjallen

“...there has been a slight overreaction.”

If the overreaction has been slight, that must mean that the reasonable reaction has been massive.


10 posted on 12/17/2024 8:29:01 AM PST by Migraine
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To: yesthatjallen

half of the supposed drone video I have seen were clearly airplanes.

This is all so stupid, it’s like the whole country has gone nuts all of a sudden and I am tired of it being covered in the news. It is dumb


11 posted on 12/17/2024 8:32:48 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: libertylover

I saw a program on the “Science” channel of lights in the night sky. The commentators went wild “WOW! What is that!” but they only showed the lights for a couple of seconds then would cut away.
I soon figured from the way it moved it was a black wind sock with small lights attached, on either a black kite or a drone. I remember kids in High School who would pull such stunts to get a rise out of people observing it.


12 posted on 12/17/2024 8:33:01 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: yesthatjallen
“You can’t ignore the sightings that have been there, and we are concerned about those just as much as anybody else is,” the FBI official said. “But I think there has been a slight overreaction.”

Okay, great. So then ignore the "slight overreaction" and tell us about the other ones. As Trump says, you know what garage they take off and land from. Quit knocking down the bogus sightings and tell us about the real ones.

13 posted on 12/17/2024 8:34:34 AM PST by FreeReign
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To: yesthatjallen

I recall people using small candles and a garbage bag to make a pretty small hot air balloon.

It looks rather strange in the night sky, because the candle gives a glow to the garbage bag/balloon.

Made by a number of pranksters to create UFO hysteria.


14 posted on 12/17/2024 8:42:53 AM PST by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: FreeReign; yesthatjallen

When you make a habit of lying to people and gaslighting people and they find out about it, is it any surprise that people refuse to believe a word you say?

That is our government and media in a nutshell right now.


15 posted on 12/17/2024 8:46:38 AM PST by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: marktwain

They sell those for pretty cheap at all those fireworks shops now too so the launcher doesnt even have to know how to use a glue bottle. A credit card and a lighter can launch an armada.


16 posted on 12/17/2024 8:47:06 AM PST by gnarledmaw (Hivemind liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives select servants.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

17 posted on 12/17/2024 8:58:42 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Politics do not make strange bedfellows, and the enemy of your enemy may still be your enemy.)
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To: Signalman

It’s funny…I was driving around a lot on Sunday with my wife. Every time i saw something, I would point and say, “Look a drone!”

I pointed to one bright light in the sky and said…”Jupiter.” That was the only time I was correct.


18 posted on 12/17/2024 9:27:44 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: Signalman

MISTAKEN IDENTITY-—FOR WHAT ?????????

WHAT ELSE COULD THEY BE????


19 posted on 12/17/2024 11:05:21 AM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: ridesthemiles

Virtually anything at night “lights in the sky” can be mistaken for any applelation people want to put on it, be it UFO or drone.

If you do not know what something is, by definition it is an unidentified flying object.

There are lots of lights in the night sky. Lots of people are willing, or want, there to be more mystery in their life.

Hence, lots of UFO sightings or “mystery drone” sightings.


20 posted on 12/17/2024 5:01:39 PM PST by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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