The really long-range detectors supposedly do not work very well in sunlight as it masks the faint radiation signatures to which they are tuned.
At least, that is what people claiming to be knowledgeable about such instruments are saying. It might be true. It might not be true. I don't have one of these detectors to check it out.
It is all a hall of mirrors where it is almost impossible to sort out the truth from all of the mis-directions. What is clear is that multiple agendas are in play and all of the players are lying about what they are doing. "It's for your own good", they say.
My guess is that broken pieces of an old Soviet nuclear weapon, once kept in the Ukraine, have been smuggled into New York or New Jersey to be used as a dirty bomb. And we have "Top Men" looking for them right now. But you can choose whatever story you like.
I do like the "Alien Introduction" theory for its' entertainment value and tenuous match with the more outlandish drone observations. I rate it as unlikely to be true but amusing even so. I am always up for a well-told story.
I am happy that I am not on the East coast right now. I will be really upset if the Al-Qaeda attack target turns out to be one of the cities nearby my current location instead. Because "(e), None of the above" is always a valid selection on those multiple-choice tests.
What men? ~ Indiana Jones
Our Top Men. ~ Bureaucrat
I have developed a “conspiracy blueprint theory” that I believe that they always use when they engage in a conspiracy.
It starts with the assumption that people don’t want to be the bad guys and most conspiracies need at least some amount of participation from hundreds or thousands of people.
It also involves the idea of some version of a “limited hangout”...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_hangout
The limited hangout is the abridged or sanitized version of the truth that they tell the collaborators who otherwise wouldn’t participate or would spill the beans if forced to participate.
With JFK, the USSR was the limited hangout. The coup organizers needed hundreds or thousands of people to participate in the coverup of the murder of the President so they told the collaborators that the USSR killed Kennedy and it needed to be covered up to avoid WW3. The people helping cover it up thought they were the “good guys”.
In this drone scenario, I think the missing nuclear material is the limited hang out. I’m not sure what the ultimate conspiracy is but I think they are using the nuclear material angle to get civilians/military/media to cooperate.
It may be as simple as that they want to freak people out to increase the surveillance state...
Yes, having a giant nuclear reactor in the sky sleeting radioactive death at you all day long can affect sensitive rad devices.
When I used them they were inside an aluminum casing ... and we still had to keep the room light off.
The phosphorescent material was also cooled with liquid nitrogen. (About 1974)