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What blows my mind, is that damn near every single person seeing this has a phone that can record video, and the best we can do is grainy night pictures.

I mean fucking hell we've got people in this thread saying "yeah but they don't move like that" ,which fine, cool, and yet somehow the only stuff circulating is pictures?

This whole thing reeks of overreaction to something small signal boosted by filtering of bad data. Send a clear video "oh that's obviously a helicopter". Send some barely readable photo "MASSIVE DRONE SIGHTING", put it on the front page.



>grainy night pictures

Because that's what you get when you point your phone at the sky at night and start recording.

Have you never tried to do this?

Even the moon, the brightest and largest object in the sky, by far, comes out looking really bad on night pictures.


Take the drone, leave the Cannoli


there were videos of ostensibly these drones. i've seen two that claimed such, but unfortunately i did not save the videos - dumb. "remote control aircraft" are so low on my radar (PI) that i wrote it off as people scared of their shadow. The original story was it was loitering near some Trump property, and that's why FAA issued a NOTAM for that area. afaik, this is standard procedure? But maybe people don't know that or the news they watch is explaining things poorly. who knows. I just know why i didn't save the videos.




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