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The ongoing drone mystery in New Jersey appears to have arrived in Delmarva's skies as neighbors across the peninsula reported sightings of the aircraft Thursday night.
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Mass hysteria over nothing. Most of the objects sighted are reported as having lights, usually red, green and white and blinking. Duh! Those are navigation lights on aircraft. If these objects did not want to be spotted they would certainly NOT have lights. When the aircraft turn, climb or maneuver the lights can be obscured by the airframe body, leading the observer to claim the craft turned it's lights off. The objects are moving in three dimensions, not two, thus contributing to optical illusions. Contrary to popular opinion, Flight Aware and other tracking programs do not show all aircraft in any area as anything operating under Visual Flight Rules are exempt from certain requirements such as transponders or even radios!
Yes, we are being invaded but by idiots on the ground who never bothered to look up until this nonsense story surfaced. I can't wait until some fool decides to take matters into their own hands and shoots one down, only to discover it was a Maryland State Police helicopter transporting a patient to a local hospital.
Your friend,
Slim
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Mass hysteria over nothing. Most of the objects sighted are reported as having lights, usually red, green and white and blinking. Duh! Those are navigation lights on aircraft. If these objects did not want to be spotted they would certainly NOT have lights. When the aircraft turn, climb or maneuver the lights can be obscured by the airframe body, leading the observer to claim the craft turned it's lights off. The objects are moving in three dimensions, not two, thus contributing to optical illusions. Contrary to popular opinion, Flight Aware and other tracking programs do not show all aircraft in any area as anything operating under Visual Flight Rules are exempt from certain requirements such as transponders or even radios!
Yes, we are being invaded but by idiots on the ground who never bothered to look up until this nonsense story surfaced. I can't wait until some fool decides to take matters into their own hands and shoots one down, only to discover it was a Maryland State Police helicopter transporting a patient to a local hospital.
Your friend,
Slim
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