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Related: About this forumMysterious Swarms of Giant Drones Keep Appearing at Night Over Colorado
IRENE JIAN, BUSINESS INSIDER
3 JAN 2020
Something strange has been happening in eastern Colorado at night.
Since the week of Christmas, giant drones measuring up to 6 feet (1.8 metres) across have been spotted in the sky at night, sometimes in swarms as large as 30.
The Denver Post first reported these mysterious drone sightings in northeastern Colorado on December 23. Since then, sightings have spanned six counties across Colorado and Nebraska.
Phillips County Sheriff Thomas Elliott had no answer for where the drones came from or whom they belonged to but did have a rough grasp on their flying habits.
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Mysterious Swarms of Giant Drones Keep Appearing at Night Over Colorado (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Jan 2020
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RKP5637
(67,111 posts)1. I've been casually following this for awhile. It's amazing to me that none yet seems to know what
this is really about. It's also strange to me that it's not seen as some type of national security issue, at least until it's understood what it's all about.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)2. How hard would it be...
How hard would it be to discover the frequencies for the transmitters by scanning for them in common bands and then triangulating the location of the source?
I mean, that seems to be the way to "solve" who is doing it and it isn't that complex these days.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)3. Check out these New Years drones in Shanghai
rickford66
(5,524 posts)4. Probably some kind of "DRONE" club
Warpy
(111,275 posts)5. Might be some kind of club, but they seem to be too big for that.
Denver seems to be an odd place to test big drones for package deliveries, but maybe that's where they're being developed. Testing at night also seems a little bizarre, but delivery companies would likely want that capacity.
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)7. Hmmm ... maybe it's "Revenge of the Lightening Bugs!" Big ones! n/t
eppur_se_muova
(36,269 posts)6. Just what we need -- a new form of light pollution.
Hope they encounter #astronomerswithshotguns .
Sneederbunk
(14,291 posts)8. It is the Deep State. Do not as( questions.