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Drones flying nighttime patterns over NE Colorado leave law enforcement stumped

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Re: Drones flying nighttime patterns over NE Colorado leave law enforcement stumped

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Post by clort »

5bolts wrote: post #130
godelski wrote: post #115

If this is such a high concern, why don't they go on a fox hunt? HAM is pretty popular in rural areas and HAMs love fox hunts. With the frequency and length that these things are up, they should be able to close in on the operators fairly quickly.

amateur radio is pretty popular in rural areas. While i guess the pork product is as well. and as a ham we don't capitalize it, its not an acronym.

well it came from initials of Hertz, Armstrong & Marconi all of whom were instrumental in radio wave research. I think that counts as an acronym but when it is a common word it is often written in lower case

Re: Drones flying nighttime patterns over NE Colorado leave law enforcement stumped

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Post by clort »

growlist wrote: post #81

> A farmhouse sits abandoned on County Road 24 in Yuma County on May 1, 2017 Looks pretty comfy to me. How much does an abandoned farm house in Yuma County go for these days?

for reference, I see the house here

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9191659,-102.240448,419m/dat...

Re: Drones flying nighttime patterns over NE Colorado leave law enforcement stumped

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Post by crocodiletears »

jlgaddis wrote: post #128
crocodiletears wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Likewise. This article caught my eye, because it describes a phenomenon similar to one I've observed locally over the past year. I'd be curious about how well this meshes with what you've seen. We have a fleet of (at least) 30 drones operating in a similar manner over Indiana. All of them reliably following paths between fixed waypoints. Upon reaching their waypoints, they tend to loiter place for a bit, change eleva…

> ... over Indiana. > ... the nearby naval warfare research center, ... I'd be interested in more details (either here or via e-mail to my username at gmail) as to where you've seen these flying. I'm basically in between Bloomington and Crane (which is, I assume, where you're referring to) and have several friends who work at various levels in law enforcement in the area and even more friends who work at Crane. This…

I've emailed you via hn àτ crocodile.observer

Re: Drones flying nighttime patterns over NE Colorado leave law enforcement stumped

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Post by georgepertot »

Illegal Drones.. to large and flting outside FAA regs. Can it be China ..Russia.. looking for our missle silos ???

Or freindly UFO... scouting out landing spot for mother ship anyway it is not normal to fly and operate such a fleet of drones undocumented in the USA..

Re: Drones flying nighttime patterns over NE Colorado leave law enforcement stumped

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Post by fetus8 »

My partner lives in this area and while I was there on Monday night, at about 8:45pm, we counted about 10 drones flying around. They came in from the west but for the duration of their visit, moved around from west to south, to east to north, in erratic patterns.

Given the first sightings were in the more eastern counties of Colorado, and have been moving westward, but remaining in the rural areas still, it seems like someone is searching for something. Did the military lose something? There's an air-force base in Cheyenne, WY, and one down in Colorado Springs...

Re: Drones flying nighttime patterns over NE Colorado leave law enforcement stumped

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Post by macinjosh »

fetus8 wrote: post #136

My partner lives in this area and while I was there on Monday night, at about 8:45pm, we counted about 10 drones flying around. They came in from the west but for the duration of their visit, moved around from west to south, to east to north, in erratic patterns. Given the first sightings were in the more eastern counties of Colorado, and have been moving westward, but remaining in the rural areas still, it seems lik…

Military seems most likely to me. The military have said it is not them but we all know that doesn't make it true.

Assuming they are searching for something what could be found after dark? Perhaps something that gives off radioactivity or light in an invisible spectrum? Why would they fly at night other than to help them lay low?

Perhaps it is some sort of military drone flight training program?

Re: Drones flying nighttime patterns over NE Colorado leave law enforcement stumped

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Post by fetus8 »

macinjosh wrote: post #137
fetus8 wrote: post #136

My partner lives in this area and while I was there on Monday night, at about 8:45pm, we counted about 10 drones flying around. They came in from the west but for the duration of their visit, moved around from west to south, to east to north, in erratic patterns. Given the first sightings were in the more eastern counties of Colorado, and have been moving westward, but remaining in the rural areas still, it seems lik…

Military seems most likely to me. The military have said it is not them but we all know that doesn't make it true. Assuming they are searching for something what could be found after dark? Perhaps something that gives off radioactivity or light in an invisible spectrum? Why would they fly at night other than to help them lay low? Perhaps it is some sort of military drone flight training program?

Yeah, the prevailing thought was it has to be radioactive or tagged with something that can be seen with IR or something.

I assume the nighttime thing partially has to do with avoiding migrating Canadian Geese, and of course obscured visibility.

It absolutely could be some sort of training program, which seems like the most likely answer, but why lie about it when you've been so readily "caught"?

Re: Drones flying nighttime patterns over NE Colorado leave law enforcement stumped

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Post by caseyf7 »

macinjosh wrote: post #137
fetus8 wrote: post #136

My partner lives in this area and while I was there on Monday night, at about 8:45pm, we counted about 10 drones flying around. They came in from the west but for the duration of their visit, moved around from west to south, to east to north, in erratic patterns. Given the first sightings were in the more eastern counties of Colorado, and have been moving westward, but remaining in the rural areas still, it seems lik…

Military seems most likely to me. The military have said it is not them but we all know that doesn't make it true. Assuming they are searching for something what could be found after dark? Perhaps something that gives off radioactivity or light in an invisible spectrum? Why would they fly at night other than to help them lay low? Perhaps it is some sort of military drone flight training program?

Unlikely that it is for training. There are enough remote military bases where the training could be done without alarming locals.
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