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"The strange lights began appearing in the night sky a week before Christmas.
A formation of unidentified drones, some in groups of 30, have been reported flying high above a corner of rural northeastern Colorado and western
Nebraska, usually from 7 to 10 p.m. By some accounts, the drones have wingspans of 6 feet or more.
"They can sit there and hover. They can descend very fast. They can take off very fast," Wyatt Harman, who chased the drones as they flew above his
land in Washington County, Colorado, told the "TODAY" show.
He and his girlfriend, Chelsea Arnold, said they pursued the lights for about 15 miles, driving as fast as 70 mph.
"It's more unnerving than anything," Arnold said."
So being an avid drone flyer, seeing all these silly titled headlines about this recent story has me thinking.
Most drones today are pretty much limited to 50mph+- and flight times rarely exceed 30 minutes tops. And their range is good for say around 4.3 miles
or so.
So some of the things I've been reading that stick out to me are this:
A couple chased them for 15 miles at 70mph: This is way over a drones range as well as speed.
Someone else said they were silent: Most drones are still audible at 300ft, let alone a swarm of them
Someone said they were flying for hours: Drones are limited to 30 minutes tops flight time this literally isn't possible
I'm having trouble finding drones of that size unless they are completely home grown. Possibly gas powered which would increase range but not by more
than another 20 minutes.
But everything else doesn't add up. Gas powered would be even more loud than electric.
FAA have no record of these drones so they aren't registered and are illegally flying at night.
Now the FAA are moving to make every drone able to be tracked real time, which would be interesting if they were behind this to push this rule into
existence.
But the whole thing is really odd, there's very little evidence and video footage of this swarm, none actually that I can find. Only video of one or
two from what I've found.
Now are these really even drones? Or could these actually be UFOs being mistaken as drones? Very little in description from witnesses that I can
find.
So in doing a little more investigating, this gas powered drone I've found has 90min flight time and can go 26.719 miles range, but its max speed is
only 33mph. And is nowhere near 6ft across, so kinda rules these out too.
www.walkera.com...
It's entirely possible it's a bunch of these but the couple chasing them at 70mph is absolutely false, there's no way.
But still, all drones eventually have to land!
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