The Colorado mystery drones weren’t real

java-man wrote: post #4

CDPS “confirmed no incidents involving criminal activity, nor have investigations substantiated reports of suspicious or illegal drone activity.” this means the "activity" was legal.

Exactly this. I'm not convinced in the least that nothing happened, merely that nobody was breaking any laws with whatever they were doing.

Re: The Colorado mystery drones weren’t real

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Post by crooked-v » Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 8:53 PM UTC

deadmetheny wrote: post #6

java-man wrote: post #4

CDPS “confirmed no incidents involving criminal activity, nor have investigations substantiated reports of suspicious or illegal drone activity.” this means the "activity" was legal.

Exactly this. I'm not convinced in the least that nothing happened, merely that nobody was breaking any laws with whatever they were doing.

> 13 were determined to be “planets, stars, or small hobbyist drones.” Six were commercial aircraft, and four remain unconfirmed.

Sounds to me like a case of one or two guys flying drones sometimes that turned into "What's that light in the sky?! It must be a drone!!"

Re: The Colorado mystery drones weren’t real

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Post by testis321 » Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 9:13 PM UTC

We might be laughing now, but this kind of things bring us new laws, limitations and regulations.

Drones are a great tool, even in the hands of a total amateur. Some regulation is needed (eg. not flying over crowds of people), but otherwise a top-down view shows many, many interesting things, from far crash remains (missing people, atleast finding a body) to illegal dumping operations (eg. a company pouring toxic waste into a river), etc.

Re: The Colorado mystery drones weren’t real

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Post by nkrisc » Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 9:25 PM UTC

Thirty years ago it would have been aliens, right? I'm a little surprised no one reported being abducted by the drones.

Re: The Colorado mystery drones weren’t real

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Post by dmix » Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 9:34 PM UTC

nkrisc wrote: post #9

Thirty years ago it would have been aliens, right? I'm a little surprised no one reported being abducted by the drones.

Did you notice in the police report that "someone got a picture of the drones" but it turned out to just be a picture of a "white light in the sky".

This would definitely be UFO two or three decades ago.

Also the number of spelling and grammatical errors in the sheriff's email was quite... surprising. Or maybe not, for small town police...