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The Great Drone Scam
American Thinker ^ | 12/14/2024 | Ed Sherdlu

Posted on 12/14/2024 9:57:42 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Let me begin with a phrase I never used to start a story in 45 years as a TV reporter: “I may be wrong.” This entire piece may be wrong, but those 45 years on the air and 2000+ hours as a pilot tell me I’m right. The MSM floods their newscasts with reports of drone-terrified citizens ready to head for the hills over the latest media-induced scare. The word “drones” is now synonymous with “doom.”

This is simply a media-driven scam. The MSM media is searching for something, anything, to boost ratings since their failure to ensure the election of the woman they considered God’s chosen presidential candidate. One man now claims 50 drones came from the Atlantic and chased him. He got his time on TV and didn’t even have to pay Oprah $2.5 mil. I wonder if he has also seen Sasquatch.

There are two types of media-hyped drones. The first are the small ones. They fly in groups. No, they are not some super top-secret American, Russian, Chinese, Iranian, or North Korean weapon. They are the same drones you can watch fly together on any given Sunday in hundreds of public parks. If you want to join the fun, it starts at about $49.00 on Amazon. These radio-controlled drones can fly for as long as an hour on a battery charge. They fly in any direction displaying the supposedly mysterious lights seen on television. Piloting skills come easily -- it takes about 45 minutes to become familiar with flying one.

These drones have a camera relaying the sights from the sky back to the operator on the ground. For those non-pilots who always wanted a bird’s-eye view of their neighborhood from 400 feet, drones are a cheap alternative to spending $20K to get a pilot’s license.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: collectivedelusion; drones; hysteria; newsfromgroversmill; nj; scam
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1 posted on 12/14/2024 9:57:42 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Coming soon: Tinfoil hat mandates.


2 posted on 12/14/2024 9:59:42 AM PST by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Evil’s greatest weapon is distraction” - Samurai Jack


3 posted on 12/14/2024 10:01:44 AM PST by JJBookman (Democrats = Party of distraction )
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To: SeekAndFind

The fake press did the same thing with the China virus in 2019.

Glass lungs, hoarding ventilators - a load of crap which the media is designed to serve up in high volume.


4 posted on 12/14/2024 10:02:07 AM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: SeekAndFind

so why can’t DOD just tell us that, instead of claiming complete ignorance about what’s happening in our skies?


5 posted on 12/14/2024 10:04:04 AM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: SeekAndFind

I think there’s more to this than the article suggests.


6 posted on 12/14/2024 10:06:07 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: SeekAndFind

Tax and regulate drones. Require licenses. That is where this has always been heading.


7 posted on 12/14/2024 10:06:09 AM PST by Stingray51 ( )
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To: SeekAndFind
As I posted on another thread, I'm leaning towards the idea that these "drones" are actually very sophisticated holograms. They often tend to be described as "floating" when they're not making some kind of direct motion, and they don't seem to actually DO anything besides look ominous in the sky. It seems more like a presentation, than an invasion.

It's the sort of thing producers of a movie about "killer drones" would do to gin up publicity, using Elon-level technology.

8 posted on 12/14/2024 10:08:37 AM PST by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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To: SeekAndFind

This writer is an idiot.


9 posted on 12/14/2024 10:08:45 AM PST by odawg
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Tape four hobby drones together with duct tape and fishing rods, then do the same with the four controller console joysticks, put a few small multicolor led flashlights on them, wait until after dark to fly them, and presto— the suv sized drone! Ready to spook out your neighbors and the local always-gullible media. Don’t even need a diagram!

Get together with your nerd flash mob and create your very own UAP squadron!


10 posted on 12/14/2024 10:16:16 AM PST by SteveH
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To: SeekAndFind
No, the drones are for real and they are a pretty sophisticated technology.

They seem to be operating autonomously and in formation.

They don't seem to have a strong IR signature so they are probably electric.

They are also operating at night so they probably are using IR, Radar/Lidar or hyper spectral imaging guidance and control so not your average drone.

11 posted on 12/14/2024 10:16:50 AM PST by rdcbn1 (TV )
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To: SeekAndFind

This is simply a media-driven scam

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He gets it. And this scare is brought to you courtesy by the federal government with cooperation from a lot of local officials who don’t know any better.


12 posted on 12/14/2024 10:18:23 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (Climate Change is Real. Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall.)
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To: JennysCool

The media and the government have moved on from the UFOs are real stories from a few months ago. When even Congress was holding hearings on the UAPs and UFOs. That went absolutely nowhere so now they’re using drones in an effort to alarm the sheeple.


13 posted on 12/14/2024 10:21:19 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (Climate Change is Real. Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Traditional MSM are tools for _______ supremacists.

Their puppet-masters will do everything with their immense ill-gotten gains to suppress independent journalism, particularly those who have the intelligence/means to expose the _____ supremacists corruption to the sleeping sheeple masses.

The bigger question is...would the sheeple do ANYTHING with that knowledge...or just continue to be all talk/no action sheeple, with the continued delusional thinking that (compromised) "politicians" will do the work for them?

Inflation/other has taken it's toll, where folks are too busy trying to stay above water...to give 2 shitz to the corruption...that got us here.

All by design.

Carlin said "It's a big club, and you ain't in it"

It's actually a fairly small club cult...but you still "ain't in it".

14 posted on 12/14/2024 10:24:44 AM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Time to throw them out of the Temple...again)
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To: odawg

Not necessarily. The author is completely correct about the media. They’ve gone full National Enquirer on this scam. They are now reporting drones the size of school buses.

Oh Noes. Time to panic.


15 posted on 12/14/2024 10:25:00 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (Climate Change is Real. Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall.)
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To: JennysCool

That’s just what it feels like to me... I wonder if there is a remake of War of the Worlds or some other action film coming out?


16 posted on 12/14/2024 10:26:14 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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To: SeekAndFind
One man now claims 50 drones came from the Atlantic and chased him.

It was a cop and he didn't say they chased him. Coast Guard also confirmed. They saw 13 over the water by the time they arrived.

17 posted on 12/14/2024 10:29:02 AM PST by Pollard (Zone 6b)
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To: faithhopecharity

Why would they rat themselves out for something they might be doing?


18 posted on 12/14/2024 10:30:26 AM PST by Tom Tetroxide (Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the son of man, who has no salvation.")
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To: SeekAndFind

I agree with this guy.
As a teenager, I and a couple of my buddies
used to launch fake ufo’s just for the fun of it.


19 posted on 12/14/2024 10:32:31 AM PST by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Most reports say Drones fly long more than 1 hour at a time


20 posted on 12/14/2024 10:34:57 AM PST by RWGinger (FJB)
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