In all frankness, this needs to happen. Let's start the groupchat and crowd source some drone hoaxing. I'm tired. Let's teach the world a lesson about social contagion. Hank, John.. I'll see you in the groupchat.
Yeah lol, like just ignoring a lot of iran's millitary influence has been decimated as of late i really dont think theyd be doing this silly ass prank on new jersey
And why would Iran operate drones at night with their navigation lights and white strobes from mother ships. Our government at its best. It is just commercial planes.
Isn’t it insane that the politician even said it at all? It’s incredibly irresponsible to just make up stuff like that and “report” it as if it’s real..
@@kateapple1because once people start freaking out they start to see more “drones” and it snowballs into hysteria. Everyone has a camera in their pocket. Drones aren’t that fast. I haven’t seen anything interesting besides a weird picture of a confirmed airplane. But yeah holy shit, an airport in New Windsor, NY had to close for AN HOUR today because of a reported drone sighting. Luckily, “there were no impacts to flight operations” during their hour long break while an FBI agent looked around. People who think there’s big, 2 ton, Iranian/Martian drones flying around are the ones who go out and look for them and call things in.
Absolutely! Sometimes I think it's funny how people react when I say I don't know something they asked me about, but it's actually concerning how that seems unusual to them.
Exactly what this TH-camr should've done instead of making this misinformed video. He just claims it's all fake instead of admitting the truth which is that he doesn't know. Isn't it funny how that works?
When LA had the big earthquake back in the 80s the power went out for 3 days. Because of the lack of light pollution people started seeing the milky way in the sky for the first time and called emergency services by the thousand to report the "strange lights in the sky". I wish we cared more about light pollution.
Light pollution is so underrated as a concern. I go off about it every chance I get and I'm not even really informed on the subject (I really should though... maybe Hank could do a video about it lmao). Some of the solutions would be so easy to implement..
Oh my GOD - Seriously, people who have NEVER actually seen stars in the night sky. ?? And they were surprised to see those strange lights in the sky? Talk about being clueless and narrow mined. But after all ... this SURELY comes with the territory in California. I lived there for 18 years, which trust me, was ENOUGH years. For once in your life ... get MILES and MILES away from any city, then look up at the night sky to see more starts than you could hope to count in one entire lifetime - Figure out where Jupiter is, and go grab a sizeable telescope, and at least examine the more largest moons orbiting Jupiter. Then look at the rings of Saturn. You won't see much unless your telescope is HUGE, but Saturn might possibly look a bit like it has Micky Mouse ears with a smallish telescope.
When I was 10 years old, my father taught me how all this works in the most elegant way possible. We were driving home late at night, and he pointed out an airplane. He then proceeded to talk me into the belief that it was NOT an airplane, and that the blinking lights meant that the lights were spinning in and out of view. Surely, we were witnessing a flying saucer, look at how it is hovering! Then, he burst the bubble. “Don’t believe everything you see. You have to use rational thought also.”
Not really, anyone just minimizing this hasn't done any research. You tell me what those pilots saw over Oregon at the beginning of December, audio on TH-cam.
@@natatattful I did not hear Hank minimizing it. I heard him pointing out that we do not yet know whether it is all really normal stuff. Just because no one yet has come forward with an explanation that you have found, that does not mean it is anything to worry about.
@@AJarOfYams there is actually evidence that one of our earliest predators were large eagles...so the instinct to look up is likely still with us. Like how some people are scared of snakes or spiders...it's an response to danger. Look up taung child skull if you're interested.
@@amor2874 why? we have official FAA recordings of pilots saying they are seeing weird orbs in the sky they cant identify and moving in anomalous ways. We have multiple military bases saying they are also seeing unknown objects in sensitive airspace over military bases. Where is the ironic part? There are also reports of similar things happening in China and Russia.
I almost didn't click on this video because I am tired of hearing about this subject and I heard a piece from npr a few days ago that explained that the reports were probably nothing. However I'm glad I clicked because what I didn't expect was quite the succinct summary of my general outlook on humanity and how we experience the world and each other. God I love vlogbrothers
I swear to God, if we find out these drones are just a few dudes in a garage trolling the entire state of New Jersey people are going to lose their minds🤣
Nah, they'll just be like "No that's the Iranian deep state brainwashing them to lie to us. We don't fall for their lies!" or whatever other kind of bs that can be come up with. People who can't admit fault will double down no matter how much of a clown it turns them into. And like... I'd LOVE for them to be alien UFOs, but there's a million things they are more likely to be before that.
Keep eating that brainwashed government slop for breakfast. You're about to see how boring it isn't. I bet you won't come back here when proven wrong and be like "damn I was wrong". No you people will change your mind immediately and be like "I knew all along". Clowns.
I'm showing my age, but in the early 90's there was a band named Squirrel Nut Zippers. I'm sure if they are still active, but I'm all for the name of your new band.
That was one of my first thoughts when he said the time of year and hours these sightings tend to happen. In late December Sirius rises around 8PM and being near the horizon for a few hours after that can twinkle and blink colors in an unexpected way.
my favorite thing I've seen about this is a thread about a drone show displaying a human face, a comment saying, "Imagine if we put that over an uncontacted tribe and pretended to be their god, they'd go crazy. ", and a reply saying, "or better yet, an American city"
but we've seen drone shows before. imagine if it was a really big mothership. Phoenix lights in 1997 weren't military dropping flares. AZ governor who was in the Air Force even said so.
@@brucesoehngen852 fyi it seems like you might want to look into the Phoenix lights again, the wiki page for them has an explanations section. Mentions that a Maryland ANG pilot "confirmed that he had flown one of the aircraft in the formation that dropped flares on the night in question". granted I'm just someone who quickly googled it so idk maybe you've looked into it longer
@@brucesoehngen852 Gov Symington wasn’t involved in the exercise, but he was convicted on 7 counts of fraud just a few months later, so he may not be the most reliable witness. More importantly, the lights were seen during Operation Snowbird, in the area in which Snowbird was being conducted, and one of the pilots (Lt. Col. Ed Jones) confirmed that they dropped flares during the exercise.
@@brucesoehngen852 That same governor was also convicted of 7 counts of fraud later that year, so maybe he’s not the most reliable witness. More importantly, he wasn’t in a position to know. But one of the actual pilots in Operation Snowbird confirmed that they were indeed dropping flares that night.
@@brucesoehngen852 That governor is a terrible witness: he wasn’t involved in Operation Snowbird, he had no special knowledge of it, and he was convicted of 7 counts of fraud later that year. And one of the actual pilots confirmed that they were indeed dropping flares that night.
It's probably because what's called "Exodus" in the US military (or at least Army calls it that) Read the article from 'The War Zone' titled: "Newly Released FAA Documents Give Unprecedented Look Into Colorado Drone Swarm Mystery" Actually read the documents. This was not a joke. 30ish small drones swarming as a single unit from a larger "mothership" drone. Packs of 15, six foot wide drones in grid formations. And it began with 6' wide drones flying in storms in 25mph winds up to peoples windows until they got attention and people called police, they wanted attention. And all this ended with them doing these antics around ICBMs at Francis E Warren.
It's probably because what's called "Exodus" in the US military (or at least Army calls it that) Read the article from 'The War Zone' titled: "Newly Released FAA Documents Give Unprecedented Look Into Colorado Drone Swarm Mystery" Actually read the documents. This was not a joke. 30ish small drones swarming as a single unit from a larger "mothership" drone. Packs of 15, six foot wide drones in grid formations. And it began with 6' wide drones flying in storms in 25mph winds up to peoples windows until they got attention and people called police, they wanted attention. And all this ended with them doing these antics around ICBMs at Francis E Warren.
@@Damnitjim7 If New Jersey has Nuclear sites then yes they would go there. Since it’s known that UAPs have often turned off our nukes. It these sightings are drones but there have been some UFOs in the mix of all of this and these drones could be looking for these UAPs.
Last year in June my bf and I stayed in Capitan, NM. Super small town. We saw weird “stars” moving in the sky like how water bugs move in water. Idk about the drones but aliens/UFO’s are definitely out there after I saw that lol. We also saw a bright light flash in the sky and then immediately disappear, among other experiences the week we were there.
I absolutely admire your ability to be and sound genuinely empathetic and nonjudgemental to people while in no uncertain terms explaining why are almost certainly wrong. Godspeed, Hank, we don't deserve you, but we need you.
Seriously. Every time UFO's are in the news, I struggle to communicate something like "Look, I don't know exactly what that is, but there have been so many cases where something in the sky that looked like the wildest sci-fi stuff turned out to have a mundane explanation, so this is _probably_ just another example of that." I know Hank does this professionally, but still, I'm impressed.
So you agree with him that people don't know what's going on. But then you also agree with him that HE knows what's going on and it's nothing? And you trust that completely because you can't process information at all for yourself? Go watch somemore videos on the topic. Holy shit you people are fucking clowns.
8:33 being myopic, every time I take off my glasses and see light it’s “orbs”. At night pin pricks of light are so enormous I can’t see anything but orbs in a city.
Hank continues to be the best social commentary channel. He tells you to not be afraid yet be curious. To not be swept away in the frenzy and be critical.
Also isn't condescending to others. It's so easy to go "look at these MORONS who are worried". Internet culture is so obsessed with 'dunking' on others that it's exhausting.
Too bad it literally wasn't though. Here in brum we had a lot of people claiming aliens and all sorts of nonsense. Don't fall for the "we're better" trope. Brits love to pretend that we're not just as wretched as the US.
Hey Hank, I just want to say I have OCD and because of that and the culture of the internet it can cause me debilitating paranoia and anxiety with how most people talk about things. I've been going through a particularly tough time which has ramped up my sensitivity to this and watching videos of you explaining things that seem scary in a reassuring way has been helping me work towards processing things that might make me scared in a way that's more rational. Genuinely thankyou.
Oh hey, I also have OCD and have been dealing with this exact problem this year. The disinformation machine is in full overdrive and it's becoming really hard to avoid things online that will cause my OCD to go into a doom spiral. Resources that can logically just lay out the actual facts (also really hard to find these days) is the only thing that helps. So I entirely agree, I'm really grateful for people who can provide this for us.
For a moment, they took their eyes off the Kardashians, or whatever it is that these people watch nowadays. And of course, they did not comprehend what they saw.
@@JamesO512 - Literally the scene in Wall-E where he bumps into someone and knocks their screen away and they basically start a whole new life simply by observing the outside world.
@@JamesO512 simultaneously condescending and out of touch. No one is paying attention to the Kardashians anymore lol. Hallmark of believing you’re in the right side of the bell curve when you’re smack in the middle!
@@KingBobXVIHey I love wall-e! Such a good film that warns us not to allow mega corporations to pollute the earth! as well as our own human incompetence, it's not buy-n-large, its just walmart. 😂😊
Most of the people commenting on this video are so condescending. If you don't think our government has its own "UFO" technology you are way behind and frankly living in your own little bubbles.
16:52 that might be one of the greatest quotes I’ve ever heard. Perfectly summarizes the scientific method and the history of how it took us from telling stories about the moon to leaving our footprints on it
I’m only about halfway through rn but what I so far gather is that this is a weird combination of “I just learned a new word and now I notice it being used everywhere” + “is the dress blue/black or white/gold.” 🛸
There is definitely an element of rumors spreading like wildfire here. I have a cousin who lives in NJ and the first I heard of the drone thing was a text from her saying "lots of drone activity in (my town in NJ) tonight." Now I am 100% sure my cousin has not been monitoring daily drone activity nor was she carefully observing the night sky for no apparent reason, so what she meant was "a lot of people I know are texting me about drone activity tonight." all it takes is one person with social media to start a rumor about "suspicious drone activity tonight over Someplace, USA" and all the people from Someplace, USA who see it are going to freak out and start texting this alarming news to everyone they know. and then those people will text everyone they know, and on and on it goes until it feels like "everyone" is observing suspicious drone activity. except in reality almost none of them are observing anything, they're just panicking and spreading a rumor they heard to the point that it start to seem more credible.
I live in New Jersey. Never paid attention before, but recently I started looking at the sky, and OMG we have so much stuff up in the air at any given time! Planes landing at Newark airport, helicopters flying over Hudson river, etc. But I did see something unusual, too. A glowing orb that didn't move, so it wasn't a plane. And it was too bright for a star. It was Venus.
Most people aren't this dumb and reported far stranger objects going over their house. And no I'm not talking about misidentified planes from a random X post..
@@kevink1575 From my experience, you're wrong. Most people **are** this dumb. Most of my co-workers think I'm some sort of genius. I'm smart, but I'm not **that** smart. Most Americans are simply incredibly uninterested in information.
Thank you for being a voice of reason on this. I've been low simmering with annoyance about the whole thing, profoundly not caring but wanting somebody to figure something out so that people would just shut up about it.
If I were a part of a secret drone program to fly secret drones around New Jersey secretly, I would totally cover those secret drones with bright flashing, FAA compliant, lights.
Add on to that a elected official allegedly at the meeting where the US Navy informed them that they had destroyed the Iranian naval forces, during their last engagement. Unless he means alien Iranians from Alpha Centauri, he should literally be aware they cannot do that, as a result of the US forces winning last time. Either way mandatory drug tests for congress.
Insanity. Blame it on Iran . Or China or Russia. FFS how about America leaves the rest of the world alone?? Iran had a very bizarre sighting a while back. It did not look anything like some cheap drones we are seeing here. this thing was impressive. And more than a few people saw it at once from different angles. Try looking for it , you'll know when you find the videos. It's a sphere and it is one of the most beautiful sights I've ever seen. There are some very bizarre things that don't get shown easily online or on media. Things that are unnerving and certainly nothing that seems of man make. Have you ever heard those loud horn/trumpet things? Or ever seen the sky go black like it is being covered with a giant black sphere slowly pulling over it ? I mean day time to pitch black in a minute or so. Some strange things are happening out there, but the videos get buried and are extremely hard to locate.
Human observers are garbage. No matter who they are. I have an uncle who swears the military showed him an invisible jeep once. He also did a lot of drugs in the military. So how do you know if he saw an invisible jeep. Or if he was high on mushrooms and his friends taped tinfoil to a jeep and absolutely blew his mind. I'm sure he is totally certain of what he saw. And he was a trained observer.... He's also a braggart and a pothead. Both can be true.
Very well said. When people bring up something I'm not knowledgeable about, or some huge unfolding news, and they ask me for my opinion on it, I tell them "I don't have an opinion yet, because I don't have enough information" If they then show me something biased to see me more context, but it's limited to the narrative they side with, it drives them crazy that I *still* say I don't have enough information to form an opinion. Because if there are multiple ways to view it, I need to know, and I need more details, especially if some were withheld previously... Even then, my brain has to chew on that information for a bit. It takes time to form your own opinions. If you don't know what something is, say you don't know. If you don't have enough information to form an opinion or come to a conclusion, then leave it open-ended for when you get more info. More info will come, and then we can be more sure. But we shouldn't be listening to confidently wrong podcasters with no background on identifying these things. People are so quick to believe something. They forget they don't have to have an opinion on what it might be.
Being so exhausted from the constant deluge of internet nuttery, the clear-eyed, rational thought in this video makes me so happy. My day is now just better.
@@DABA2024 Joe Rogan was ruined by an entire different generation - nothing new. Truth is, humanity is both extremely curious and extremely incurious. We want answers so bad we'll just make them up.
This is why I like cryptozoology. Not necessarily because I think cryptids are real, but because the actual science/psychology and discourse around it is really interesting. I remember a show years ago where there were sightings of a large creature at the edge of a forest on the side of a road at night. A test was done to see how well people could perceive the size of a creature in the dark by putting humanoid cutouts along the side of that same road, having people drive past, and estimate the size of the cutouts. Pretty reliably, people tended to overestimate the size by a substantial margin. This is also true for things in the sky since, as mentioned in the video, there's nothing to reliably compare the size to. On the side of believers though, specifically people who believe in aliens, a response to the question, "If aliens are here, shouldn't more people be seeing them?" is, "How often do you actually look up into the sky?" The first time I heard that question, I realized I don't personally look up into the night sky all that often. For all I know, there could be objects flying around up there all the time that I'd never know about. At this very moment, there could be something in the sky that I would see if I got up and walked over to my window, and I can't say for sure whether there is or isn't unless I actually take the time to check. Then there's also the tendency when there's a cryptid sighting and a story gets around for other people to jump on the bandwagon and add to it, whether they're actually seeing something or not. One person sees mothman, and suddenly an entire town has their own version of a sighting story. Some might see an owl flying overhead that they overestimate the size of because they don't see owls very often, some might entirely make up a story for attention or to simply conform to the group, and in some situations there might actually be a creature not known to live in the vicinity that's newly discovered for that area. It happens on a much larger scale all the time too, like with the rash of shark attacks that led to the creation of the Jaws movies. There weren't any more shark attacks than normal at the time, but a news channel reported on it and got good ratings, so other news channels did the same. Suddenly it seemed like people were constantly being attacked by sharks out of nowhere. So if you combine the tendency to overestimate the size of things at night, especially in the sky with no objects to use for a size reference, the fact that more people are actually looking up now and possibly seeing drones that have always been there, and that it's a popular issue to talk about right now, the drone situation makes perfect sense without there necessarily being anything malicious about it. TL;DR, the drones are cryptids, basically.
I hate that I can't remember enough details to find this, but I believe there was a fairly modern string of sightings of an "escaped lion", in, I want to say England, and then when it was tracked down, it was just a moderately large stay dog or something. Wasn't anything remotely the size of a lion, but when you're afraid and uncertain, the scary thing looks BIG.
First political thing I saw a girl from my high-school post (12 years later) was that she was baffled that drones were invading but our prez and VP were no where to be found. Like they should have called for a national fireside chat to discuss the airplanes flying in our sky. How is THIS the first thing you're willing to embarrass yourself over by publicly posting about it
The neighborhood facebook group in my town is SO FUNNY about this. planes frequently fly over our town because we're right next to the major airport in the area, and the number of people going "I SAW A DRONE!!! IT'S HAPPENING HERE TOO!!!" and posting a picture of an airplane is the best.
@Imperial_Squid Even better detail I forgot to add: Not only are we like two towns over from the major airport, we also have a small private airport for prop planes and hobby aviators IN TOWN.
@@jupiterliam7961 lmao, I wonder how off the deep end they might go, like "the aliens must have holograms or some other kind of disguises, one of them claimed to be my flight instructor the other day?!? I couldn't tell the difference between the alien and the real guy, it was so weird!!!"
@Imperial_Squid I don't think the people in my town think they're aliens necessarily, but they definitely think they're surveillance drones. We have an aerospace government contractor in town that's a big employer, so I'm sure these people feel justified.
The “I don’t know” bit is the most important. Too many people are driven by stubbornness, pride and fear of not having answers or admitting they’re wrong. And it makes them so closed minded.
I saw someone post a live stream of a beach, where they were freaking out about a giant orb in the sky that was "summoning other orbs." It was the Moon that was brighter than normal with planes passing through the light of it. That's when I realized that most of these drone observations and assumptions were definitely wrong lol.
"the moon was brighter than normal with planes passing through the light of it" Can you explain more what that means? I'm having trouble visualizing that.
@@peregrinecovington4138 Google can probably explain it better than I can, but the Moon isn't the same brightness every night. I'm pretty sure it depends on the phase of the Moon that night and a couple other factors. I worded the plane portion poorly, my bad. You know how at night, planes can look just like a dot of light? Imagine that, but they were passing in between the camera and the Moon. So for a split second, the light of the plane would blend in with the Moon and then reappear once the plane finished passing the Moon. I hope that makes sense.
@@peregrinecovington4138 Have you ever looked at the moon and thought "that's a lot bigger than I remember"? Some interaction of atmosphere and the moon's orbit sometimes amplifies it's presence in the sky for reasons I am not informed enough to explain.
its an american thing. people are not educated and the system with mass media spreads uncontrolled news. ABC news for example got hysteric about planet venus being a drone. well its popcorn time for me as an european, but i still love you americans.
Is anyone saying that this has anything to do with magic? I just see some claims of it being alien technology, which is not magical whatsoever. Have you encountered a single claim of this being something magical?
In my AP bio class back in high school, for as best I can figure, shits and giggles my professor spent a class talking about the mind and about suggestion and how people can be primed to see things in even the most random splatter of ink of page and then showed us a slide, it was in black and white and was a chaos of spots and blotches all irregular. Then he pointed out that it was a black and white photo of a cow by a fence with a barn in the background and it was freaking nuts to experience that.
This is one of the few times where instead of splitting my attention from viewing a video every few seconds on random intervals, I was completely engaged in the content and felt my brain happily dancing in it's cage as a result. Absolute cinema.
This phenomenon felt unique to TikTok. Many people on there were noticing the lack of NJ drone related content on other social media apps in comparison to TikTok, and felt that TikTok was the only reliable source. It turns out that TikTok is just very good at pushing content that is sensationalized. There was so much that it convinced me that there was actually something to be concerned about. Someday I hope to get an explanation of what the blinking lights and slowed-down radio programs were all about.
"Slowed-down radio programs"? Seriously? How would that even work, would the program skip whenever it returned to normal? Speed up in order to catch up? Cripes.
I would suggest learning a little bit about aviation laws and drone rules if you would like to understand these things more as they're pretty well documented. Pretty much if the lights blinking, it's not weird. As for radio stations slowing down I don't know what you mean, but you can have distortions and disruptions and signals that when reconstructed by certain types of systems that are picking up the signal result in slowdown. Essentially we're talking about a variation of lag in systems with predictive algorithms. If you'd like to learn more about that, I think electronic communications engineering would be the area to look into😊 I'm just guessing though because it didn't have a name when I was doing that type of work, but it's sort of a way of reducing how degraded the station comes through when the signal is bad, it just has this really weird side effect.
The Creation of all Religions started with the same inability to just say "I don't know" and be satisfied with that. We had to make up explanations for shit, instead of just saying "I don't know, and that's ok.. maybe we'll find out one day. but right now.. We don't know."
This! This is what I've been trying to tell people! I'm a BIG nerd and avid sky watcher. As soon as I saw the videos people were posting, I knew it was a mass hysteria-type incident. Well, my first thought actually was, "Y'all, if they were drones doing anything illegal, they wouldn't have the lights on." It's disappointing that people are so easily fooled.
@@repeat_defender they are real. This is happening. I saw them. 12/17 crystal clear night. I was a skeptic too. But what is saw blew my mind and I’ve been obsessed since. 12/18 was raining and cloudy. 12/19 I went out again they are in the sky from 530-9pm est. went back to where I saw them on 12/17. Didn’t see anything headed home and saw the blinking lights in the distance. Headed that way and parked in a field and saw over 20 from 8pm to 830.
Also around Christmastime because it gets dark sooo early that people notice more totally normal lights in the sky. But like Hank said - we’ll likely not know the initial start.
Thank you Hank. America should watch this not just to learn about the drones, but to learn about how to think usefully about things that make you go hmmmm.
The words "...[they're] worried when they look at the sky when they usually don't look at the sky..." is a very important point. People are not used to all the things that normally can appear. If they are scared or on edge, their imagination runs away with them. \ Over the years, I've seen things that someone could presume was a UFO or a drone. My favorite was a moving UFO that I saw as a kid--it was a plane. I heard it as it went over and the odd lights was an ad of some kind. Another was a light that turned out to be on pole in the distance. It looked like it was moving and it was because I was in a car and approaching it on a curving road.
We used a car-sized octocopter drone for a movie shoot a few years back... it arrived on a flat deck truck, and we literally had a 1hr safety meeting about how when it was flying, NOBODY was to be anywhere near it.
While I don't know the source for the shimmering orb at 8:43, it looks like the one that was broadcast by abc7ny evening news at 5pm last week, by a reporter and a camera op doing a live spot from Mendham, NJ. If you plug in that location and time into a sky map program, to the south-southwest you will find Venus, at about 23 degrees altitude and 28 degrees azimuth
I’ve been waiting for someone with an audience to call this out! So many “drone” videos are so obviously normal airplanes. It’s driving me nuts that this is so wide spread and not real at all.
I wonder if some of this is from younger generations being stuck inside too much, especially with things like the pandemic. I've definitely had some people show me some stuff where I'm just kind of flabbergasted because it's just so incredibly recognizable to me that I am confused by it being not recognizable. Maybe City light pollution is also been a problem so people don't see them regularly enough to realize that this always happens and has been happening for years or decades? I've had a couple of people show me planes that are flying towards or away from them and a couple of people show me the space station. People who I would have expected to have seen these things before but apparently had not. I mean everybody has to ask the first time they see something, I'm just surprised the first time for a lot of people is teens to 40s.
This whole conversation reminds me of when I first joined Nextdoor and people were freaking out that drones were hovering over our county for a bit in the last year or two. It was so easy to believe the discourse too from how passionate people were. It also helped that I was home alone and have anxiety. Turns out it was Jupiter. Everyone got really good at “drone” spotting but few people in my neighborhood had a star app on their phone to ask what it could be.
when i saw the "mysterious orb" I immediately thought to myself: "that's just a bokeh... I have a photo of Jupiter on my phone that looks just like it"
Somewhere else, someone insisted that the "orb" couldn't possibly be something mundane, because they could clearly see a rotating cube in the middle of it. Jeez, maybe we shouldn't legalize weed and mushrooms after all! 😉
I found myself being called a fed and getting heat by a bunch of people because I explained “that’s an out of focus image. Probably Venus or Jupiter.” People truly believe these are angels or aliens and refuse to learn how things work. Apparently we have this weird math that occurred in the last 5 years: Alex Jones + Covid Lockdowns + Trump = Narnia We are all trapped here now forces to deal with people who distrust anything and everything, except the people who tell them to distrust anything and everything
As I was telling a friend: I would love it to be aliens, if only because it would further affirm that nothing makes sense right now. But, it's almost certainly not aliens. It's probably something boring, like drone hobbyists. Especially seeing as, specifically, many of these apparently have FAA lighting - would be very polite aliens. Anyway, it's probably not polite aliens. Solid rant, Hank. 10/10, would send to aliens.
John and Hank, when the pandemic hit a few years ago, i was a junior in high school who found comfort in science class and the days when my teacher would turn on a Crashcourse video. So it was really comforting when you guys made a video on the pandemic.
Sorry. I have to call this one out. The "object at 00:33" is from an American news report. It is the planet VENUS. You zoom in on it with a video camera and that's what it looks like.
I had absolutely no idea about this drone thing and it is WILD to learn about it in this way. It really does feel indicative of a very US thing right now.
its an american thing. people are not educated and the system with mass media spreads uncontrolled news. ABC news for example got hysteric about planet venus being a drone. well its popcorn time for me as an european, but i still love you americans.
A lot of people feeling very uncertain and worried about our country and our future, and a lot of people all too ready to capitalize on those emotions. It definitely feels like a microcosm of where we’re at as a country right now 😕
I once woke up screaming to the sight of a 10 inch wide spider on the ceiling over me, just that it was half an inch wide and hangig by a thread right over my face...
This is an old quote but I always say it when stuff like this happens: *anything can be a UFO if you’re bad enough at identifying stuff*! Love the part about how if we skip over the “I don’t know” part then we’ll stop looking and never actually know. Such a good way of putting it when some conspiracy minded people seem to think that we’re the ones getting in the way of The Truth™️
Occam's Razor is an _excellent_ tool for this sort of thing. I suppose Hitchen's Razor applies, also. Except for 8:16. That's _definitely_ the crystal firmament holding back the seas of Heaven.
as an avid stargazer who enjoys looking at the sky between dusk and 11pm, in new jersey : what?? i haven't seen a single thing. seems like a few strange sightings caused a mass hysteria
@@illuminoeye_gaming Right, I was making a joke, but seriously, like, you just identified the problem yourself lol. The number of "PLANES and plane like flying objects you have noticed" You correctly identified a bunch of things as planes and dismissed them from your brain. Then you identified a bunch of other things as "plane like" possibly drones, who knows and dismissed them from your brain rather than jumping to ALIENS!!!!! or GOVERNMENT SHENANIGANS!!!!! (Which like, the gov is definitely up to shenanigans, but we can't automatically jump to that every time we see something weird). You are probably outside at night on a regular basis and have a consistent view of the situation long term, whereas these people do not and are suddenly looking up and going, oh $#!% there's lots of stuff in the sky and I don't know what any of it is!!!! AAAAAAHHH!!!!!
@@illuminoeye_gaming you haven’t seen anything but I have. These are legit. I saw over 50 the other night 12/17. I was a skeptic too. Figured it was being blown out of proportion. But when i saw them I was blown away and have been obsessed ever since.
@erictasakovic9181 people think because they haven't seen it so it can't be possible. Yes, people misidentify things, but that's not what's happening over Langley, Ramstein, Lakenheath, Naval Station Earle, Wright Pat, etc.
Thank you Hank!! As a NJ resident who even before all this enjoyed watching all the planes coming and going from the airports, I do feel strongly that I have seen some drones. But you helped me feel better about this blowing over without major incident. I appreciate you now and always! DFTBA 💙
This video feels a little bit like Carl Sagan. I remember how he had to keep reminding us about this stuff. Especially the last piece about aliens. Reminded me about his Dragon in the garage from his book "The demon haunted world: Science as a candle in the dark". Its kinda profetic in how relevant the book still is. Thanks Hank!
Thank. You. Hank. My friends would probably be super surprised to learn that I don’t believe these sightings are aliens, but I don’t. All the same i couldn’t put in to words all the reasons I remain skeptical. You are one of the few loud voices of rationality out there and for that I’m thankful.
I live in New Jersey, in an area where there have been a lot of sightings. I've been avoiding looking at the sky at night and initially, I just figured that it was the local joint base testing something. Given the lack of further, credible evidence, I'm assuming that it's just people misinterpreting the perfectly mundane things that they were seeing in the sky.
It might have started with the test of something. Clearly that's not what people are seeing at this point, but wouldn't be unexpected for there to be a test flight of something. People jumping to wild conclusions is beneficial for when test flights get seen because it distracts from what they actually are, though in this case anything that's lit up at night probably isn't stealth anything😂
@ Why the hell would I trust my own eyes. I’m just as human, fallible and uninformed as all of the idiots who got swept up in the panic and made false reports. Aside from a brief and fairly reasonable early assumption, that I didn’t act on, I chose to keep my “head in the sand” because I have chronic anxiety and OCD and I didn’t want them to cause me to do something rash and irrational if I did see something I could immediately explain. So, I chose to reduce that possibility until I got credible evidence from experts or the whole situation blew over and turned out to be nothing. Which appears to be where we are.
“Why is the government so concerned?” They’re not. The government doesn’t care. There’s nothing illegal going on. When they drones start doing something illegal, then call the cops.
9:20 This right here is exactly what frustrates me to no end. Every single message is always misconstrued to be the most outrageous clickbaity version of itself. Unexplained object in the sky -> it's unexplained therefore it defies physics, officials can't 100% confirm what something is -> scientists are baffled by strange objects in sky.
Proper leadership would have taken public concerns seriously, educated the community about night sky objects-as this gentleman has done-and ensured public safety by investigating and identifying them. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen, leading to the significant confusion and concern we’re facing now. What we’ve witnessed, aside from the issue with drones, is a display of truly terrible and reckless leadership-though the mayors have been an exception to this.
I have built and flown drones. The videos that actually have drones and not planes or stars or passing satellites, are all small drones you can buy premade and all of them have a limited range and that is basically within sight of the controller. They have two wavelengths ideal enough to broadcast on one for controls and one for any onboard cameras. All it would take is to broadcast the same wavelengths to make it impossible to fly it jamming that entire wavelength. After the battery gets close to dead it would land itself as it's programmed to do. Sometimes they will return to the controller, depending on the programming. Some handheld radios can jam the video feed. I crashed into a tree once because of this. Everyone is overreacting to something they don't understand. They are just Christmas gifts. They are covered in RGB lights. Do you think a spy drone would have RGB lights?
Thumbnail titled "Please Don't Get Mad" had me prepared for a confession video where Hank admits they're his drones.
😭
If we take the 4th letter of every 20th word it reveals his hidden message "the drones are looking for my butt"
Hank Green charged with organized sock crimes after using drone swarm to find more awesome socks
that would be awesome
In all frankness, this needs to happen. Let's start the groupchat and crowd source some drone hoaxing. I'm tired. Let's teach the world a lesson about social contagion. Hank, John.. I'll see you in the groupchat.
“Reports that Iran has a mothership off New Jersey” “Reports” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence.
Yeah lol, like just ignoring a lot of iran's millitary influence has been decimated as of late i really dont think theyd be doing this silly ass prank on new jersey
And why would Iran operate drones at night with their navigation lights and white strobes from mother ships. Our government at its best. It is just commercial planes.
Isn’t it insane that the politician even said it at all? It’s incredibly irresponsible to just make up stuff like that and “report” it as if it’s real..
So then why did the US close off over 60! Airspace’s… did you see the map today? If it’s nothing then why are they rerouting all the planes?
@@kateapple1because once people start freaking out they start to see more “drones” and it snowballs into hysteria. Everyone has a camera in their pocket. Drones aren’t that fast. I haven’t seen anything interesting besides a weird picture of a confirmed airplane.
But yeah holy shit, an airport in New Windsor, NY had to close for AN HOUR today because of a reported drone sighting. Luckily, “there were no impacts to flight operations” during their hour long break while an FBI agent looked around.
People who think there’s big, 2 ton, Iranian/Martian drones flying around are the ones who go out and look for them and call things in.
We need to relearn how to accept "I don't know" as an OK thing to be able to say out loud again.
Seriously. So many things would be fixed if they would just say that instead of insisting on making up a speculative answer with confidence.
Absofreakinglutely 🎯
Absolutely! Sometimes I think it's funny how people react when I say I don't know something they asked me about, but it's actually concerning how that seems unusual to them.
Exactly what this TH-camr should've done instead of making this misinformed video. He just claims it's all fake instead of admitting the truth which is that he doesn't know. Isn't it funny how that works?
@@johnwilshireheehaw He's just being skeptical, which is always the healthiest thing to do if you don't want to embaraas yourself.
Hank is just three drones in a human Hank costume.
His cancer diagnosis and treatment were a cover for technical upgrades.
Being able to split into three would explain how he does SO. MUCH. STUFF.
Hank suit.
You win
@@TheGreat_Kramer1LOL, one of the best and most underrated comments (and line of dialogue in cinema)
Here, I do believe this belongs to you 🏆
When LA had the big earthquake back in the 80s the power went out for 3 days. Because of the lack of light pollution people started seeing the milky way in the sky for the first time and called emergency services by the thousand to report the "strange lights in the sky". I wish we cared more about light pollution.
Light pollution is so underrated as a concern. I go off about it every chance I get and I'm not even really informed on the subject (I really should though... maybe Hank could do a video about it lmao). Some of the solutions would be so easy to implement..
Oh my GOD -
Seriously, people who have NEVER actually seen stars in the night sky. ??
And they were surprised to see those strange lights in the sky? Talk about being clueless and narrow mined. But after all ... this SURELY comes with the territory in California. I lived there for 18 years, which trust me, was ENOUGH years.
For once in your life ... get MILES and MILES away from any city, then look up at the night sky to see more starts than you could hope to count in one entire lifetime -
Figure out where Jupiter is, and go grab a sizeable telescope, and at least examine the more largest moons orbiting Jupiter. Then look at the rings of Saturn. You won't see much unless your telescope is HUGE, but Saturn might possibly look a bit like it has Micky Mouse ears with a smallish telescope.
I guess it's weirdly reassuring that at least this isn't a new level of stupidity.
The real drones are the American people, instantly creating a panic over some unexpected lights.
@@scotthullinger4684 I've seen stars, but I've never seen the Milky Way (as a "hazy band of white light" across the sky)
When I was 10 years old, my father taught me how all this works in the most elegant way possible. We were driving home late at night, and he pointed out an airplane. He then proceeded to talk me into the belief that it was NOT an airplane, and that the blinking lights meant that the lights were spinning in and out of view. Surely, we were witnessing a flying saucer, look at how it is hovering!
Then, he burst the bubble. “Don’t believe everything you see. You have to use rational thought also.”
That is excellent
"the primordial urge to be concerned about things in the sky" - what a great phrase.
And very true
Not really, anyone just minimizing this hasn't done any research. You tell me what those pilots saw over Oregon at the beginning of December, audio on TH-cam.
@@natatattful I did not hear Hank minimizing it. I heard him pointing out that we do not yet know whether it is all really normal stuff.
Just because no one yet has come forward with an explanation that you have found, that does not mean it is anything to worry about.
@@natatattful I, for one, sometimes look up at the sky instinctively on the look-out for predator birds that may or may not be there
@@AJarOfYams there is actually evidence that one of our earliest predators were large eagles...so the instinct to look up is likely still with us. Like how some people are scared of snakes or spiders...it's an response to danger. Look up taung child skull if you're interested.
Hank has the kind of media scepticism and literacy that I wish a lot more of us had. And I include myself in this.
hes also flat out wrong. multiple us military bases have confirmed sightings of unknown objects. unknown = weird
@@iraniansuperhacker4382 doesn't mean aliens
Amen, but I also don't freak out everytime the media says something I don't understand or that sounds weird. 🤣🤣🤣 unlike the idiot above me🤣🤣🤣
@@iraniansuperhacker4382 your comment is just plain irony
@@amor2874 why? we have official FAA recordings of pilots saying they are seeing weird orbs in the sky they cant identify and moving in anomalous ways. We have multiple military bases saying they are also seeing unknown objects in sensitive airspace over military bases. Where is the ironic part? There are also reports of similar things happening in China and Russia.
I almost didn't click on this video because I am tired of hearing about this subject and I heard a piece from npr a few days ago that explained that the reports were probably nothing. However I'm glad I clicked because what I didn't expect was quite the succinct summary of my general outlook on humanity and how we experience the world and each other. God I love vlogbrothers
I swear to God, if we find out these drones are just a few dudes in a garage trolling the entire state of New Jersey people are going to lose their minds🤣
They won't believe it, even with proof anyway 😂
I mean, that seems like the most likely outcome. People getting christmas presents early and trying them out without knowing the local rules.
Nah, they'll just be like "No that's the Iranian deep state brainwashing them to lie to us. We don't fall for their lies!" or whatever other kind of bs that can be come up with. People who can't admit fault will double down no matter how much of a clown it turns them into. And like... I'd LOVE for them to be alien UFOs, but there's a million things they are more likely to be before that.
@@vlogbrothers WHERE IS CONNECTIONS?
I can't say I'm not slightly entertained by that possibility
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
― H.P. Lovecraft
For better or worse, Lovecraft had a lot of experience with being reactionary.
"And that's why I hate them foreigners, creepy fishmen the lot of em'" - Also Lovecraft
I don't sense any fear in 99% of people posting... It's mostly amazement and awe
Lol,,, I think we all know what lovecrafts greatest fear.... Jews
i thought it was a fear of heights, its built into every baby
What everyone needs to remember is that life is often stranger than fiction, and infinitely more boring.
Keep eating that brainwashed government slop for breakfast. You're about to see how boring it isn't. I bet you won't come back here when proven wrong and be like "damn I was wrong". No you people will change your mind immediately and be like "I knew all along". Clowns.
Squirrel Sized Nuts is now the name of my punk rock band. Thank you!
I'm showing my age, but in the early 90's there was a band named Squirrel Nut Zippers. I'm sure if they are still active, but I'm all for the name of your new band.
@@deedsterdoo1603 They're still around!
Don't be ashamed, I'm glad you've made it this far :)
you will be in court with MULTIPLE ska bands :D
"Bucket of monkeys" comes to mind.
My 22 year old neighbor was freaking out about a "rainbow orb" I go outside, it was SIRIUS.
how sirius?
very sirius!
... and don't call me Shirley.
Sirius is one of my favorite stars 😊. Yes I have a list of favorite stars, sue me.
That was one of my first thoughts when he said the time of year and hours these sightings tend to happen. In late December Sirius rises around 8PM and being near the horizon for a few hours after that can twinkle and blink colors in an unexpected way.
Hank Green finally puts out a video addressing the mass hysteria event that people seem unable to recognize is mass hysteria.
People don’t learn enough about history to understand that events like this happen every few years
@@pax6833 eh, I’m open minded but more inclined with your opinion.
Btw, do you guys have this urge to just dance?
"histeria colectiva"?? segun tu logica, respirar y comer forma parte de una histeria colectiva tambien
@@MiguelFlores-tv3dz You cant help being dumb
@@MiguelFlores-tv3dz yeah if you don’t really know what logic is, sure
my favorite thing I've seen about this is a thread about a drone show displaying a human face, a comment saying, "Imagine if we put that over an uncontacted tribe and pretended to be their god, they'd go crazy. ", and a reply saying, "or better yet, an American city"
but we've seen drone shows before. imagine if it was a really big mothership. Phoenix lights in 1997 weren't military dropping flares. AZ governor who was in the Air Force even said so.
@@brucesoehngen852 fyi it seems like you might want to look into the Phoenix lights again, the wiki page for them has an explanations section. Mentions that a Maryland ANG pilot "confirmed that he had flown one of the aircraft in the formation that dropped flares on the night in question".
granted I'm just someone who quickly googled it so idk maybe you've looked into it longer
@@brucesoehngen852 Gov Symington wasn’t involved in the exercise, but he was convicted on 7 counts of fraud just a few months later, so he may not be the most reliable witness. More importantly, the lights were seen during Operation Snowbird, in the area in which Snowbird was being conducted, and one of the pilots (Lt. Col. Ed Jones) confirmed that they dropped flares during the exercise.
@@brucesoehngen852 That same governor was also convicted of 7 counts of fraud later that year, so maybe he’s not the most reliable witness. More importantly, he wasn’t in a position to know. But one of the actual pilots in Operation Snowbird confirmed that they were indeed dropping flares that night.
@@brucesoehngen852 That governor is a terrible witness: he wasn’t involved in Operation Snowbird, he had no special knowledge of it, and he was convicted of 7 counts of fraud later that year. And one of the actual pilots confirmed that they were indeed dropping flares that night.
Xmas Eve is historically a peak UFO flap, because grown-ass adults can't stop watching the skies for Santa.
🤣🤣🤣 I know, like aliens who can go anywhere in the known universe would come to new jersey🤣🤣🤣
It's probably because what's called "Exodus" in the US military (or at least Army calls it that)
Read the article from 'The War Zone' titled:
"Newly Released FAA Documents Give Unprecedented Look Into Colorado Drone Swarm Mystery"
Actually read the documents. This was not a joke. 30ish small drones swarming as a single unit from a larger "mothership" drone. Packs of 15, six foot wide drones in grid formations. And it began with 6' wide drones flying in storms in 25mph winds up to peoples windows until they got attention and people called police, they wanted attention. And all this ended with them doing these antics around ICBMs at Francis E Warren.
It's probably because what's called "Exodus" in the US military (or at least Army calls it that)
Read the article from 'The War Zone' titled:
"Newly Released FAA Documents Give Unprecedented Look Into Colorado Drone Swarm Mystery"
Actually read the documents. This was not a joke. 30ish small drones swarming as a single unit from a larger "mothership" drone. Packs of 15, six foot wide drones in grid formations. And it began with 6' wide drones flying in storms in 25mph winds up to peoples windows until they got attention and people called police, they wanted attention. And all this ended with them doing these antics around ICBMs at Francis E Warren.
@@Damnitjim7 If New Jersey has Nuclear sites then yes they would go there. Since it’s known that UAPs have often turned off our nukes. It these sightings are drones but there have been some UFOs in the mix of all of this and these drones could be looking for these UAPs.
Last year in June my bf and I stayed in Capitan, NM. Super small town. We saw weird “stars” moving in the sky like how water bugs move in water. Idk about the drones but aliens/UFO’s are definitely out there after I saw that lol. We also saw a bright light flash in the sky and then immediately disappear, among other experiences the week we were there.
Nut sized squirrels are a lot less likely than squirrel sized nuts - may be the best statement ever.
"Nut sized squirrels are a lot less likely than squirrel sized nuts"
Confucius
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Thanks for talking about drones, Hank
This was the only take I need on the topic
I'm from Jersey, and I'm totally not mad at you!
I absolutely admire your ability to be and sound genuinely empathetic and nonjudgemental to people while in no uncertain terms explaining why are almost certainly wrong.
Godspeed, Hank, we don't deserve you, but we need you.
It's crazy right. I was so impressed by the balance of all those things for the entire video.
I'm also impressed. Wouldn't be able to not humiliate those degenerates 😅 Hank is a role model ♥️🤗
Seriously. Every time UFO's are in the news, I struggle to communicate something like "Look, I don't know exactly what that is, but there have been so many cases where something in the sky that looked like the wildest sci-fi stuff turned out to have a mundane explanation, so this is _probably_ just another example of that." I know Hank does this professionally, but still, I'm impressed.
So you agree with him that people don't know what's going on. But then you also agree with him that HE knows what's going on and it's nothing? And you trust that completely because you can't process information at all for yourself? Go watch somemore videos on the topic. Holy shit you people are fucking clowns.
8:33 being myopic, every time I take off my glasses and see light it’s “orbs”. At night pin pricks of light are so enormous I can’t see anything but orbs in a city.
Me too and I love taking my glasses off and looking at the Christmas lights on our tree every year.
Hank continues to be the best social commentary channel.
He tells you to not be afraid yet be curious. To not be swept away in the frenzy and be critical.
Also isn't condescending to others. It's so easy to go "look at these MORONS who are worried". Internet culture is so obsessed with 'dunking' on others that it's exhausting.
That's how politicians should be, smart, assertive, science based
Over the summer we had the Northern Lights pretty far south in the UK. I am so glad everyone's reaction was just "oh! The Northern Lights, neat!"
Too bad it literally wasn't though. Here in brum we had a lot of people claiming aliens and all sorts of nonsense.
Don't fall for the "we're better" trope. Brits love to pretend that we're not just as wretched as the US.
You must not know many conspiracy theorist then because my mom was convinced that they were a product of some nefarious govt agency.🙄
Not EVERYone I'm afraid
How do we know its the northern lights and not aliens using their death ray on the earth?
Apart from that one person who thought they saw the northern lights bit it was actually tomatoes.
Fantastic response. I'm always impressed by your approach to these kinds things. Lots to learn from. Thanks.
Hey Hank, I just want to say I have OCD and because of that and the culture of the internet it can cause me debilitating paranoia and anxiety with how most people talk about things. I've been going through a particularly tough time which has ramped up my sensitivity to this and watching videos of you explaining things that seem scary in a reassuring way has been helping me work towards processing things that might make me scared in a way that's more rational. Genuinely thankyou.
@@paulwal222 😭😭😭😭
You'll be aaight! 🙂
Oh hey, I also have OCD and have been dealing with this exact problem this year. The disinformation machine is in full overdrive and it's becoming really hard to avoid things online that will cause my OCD to go into a doom spiral. Resources that can logically just lay out the actual facts (also really hard to find these days) is the only thing that helps. So I entirely agree, I'm really grateful for people who can provide this for us.
@@vanished9835 It's really validating hearing that someone is going through the same, thankyou for they reply c:
ocd sucks, i’m honestly so happy for u after reading this comment :)
People have discovered the night sky. Truly incredible times we live in.
For a moment, they took their eyes off the Kardashians, or whatever it is that these people watch nowadays. And of course, they did not comprehend what they saw.
@@JamesO512 - Literally the scene in Wall-E where he bumps into someone and knocks their screen away and they basically start a whole new life simply by observing the outside world.
@@JamesO512 simultaneously condescending and out of touch. No one is paying attention to the Kardashians anymore lol. Hallmark of believing you’re in the right side of the bell curve when you’re smack in the middle!
@@KingBobXVIHey I love wall-e! Such a good film that warns us not to allow mega corporations to pollute the earth! as well as our own human incompetence, it's not buy-n-large, its just walmart. 😂😊
Most of the people commenting on this video are so condescending. If you don't think our government has its own "UFO" technology you are way behind and frankly living in your own little bubbles.
16:52 that might be one of the greatest quotes I’ve ever heard. Perfectly summarizes the scientific method and the history of how it took us from telling stories about the moon to leaving our footprints on it
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I’m only about halfway through rn but what I so far gather is that this is a weird combination of “I just learned a new word and now I notice it being used everywhere” + “is the dress blue/black or white/gold.” 🛸
There is definitely an element of rumors spreading like wildfire here. I have a cousin who lives in NJ and the first I heard of the drone thing was a text from her saying "lots of drone activity in (my town in NJ) tonight." Now I am 100% sure my cousin has not been monitoring daily drone activity nor was she carefully observing the night sky for no apparent reason, so what she meant was "a lot of people I know are texting me about drone activity tonight." all it takes is one person with social media to start a rumor about "suspicious drone activity tonight over Someplace, USA" and all the people from Someplace, USA who see it are going to freak out and start texting this alarming news to everyone they know. and then those people will text everyone they know, and on and on it goes until it feels like "everyone" is observing suspicious drone activity. except in reality almost none of them are observing anything, they're just panicking and spreading a rumor they heard to the point that it start to seem more credible.
I live in New Jersey. Never paid attention before, but recently I started looking at the sky, and OMG we have so much stuff up in the air at any given time! Planes landing at Newark airport, helicopters flying over Hudson river, etc. But I did see something unusual, too. A glowing orb that didn't move, so it wasn't a plane. And it was too bright for a star. It was Venus.
It is amazing how much stuff is up there when one pauses to take a look and take it all in
Most people aren't this dumb and reported far stranger objects going over their house. And no I'm not talking about misidentified planes from a random X post..
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@@kevink1575 Did those "stranger" objects use FAA-regulated lighting? If not, how did they see them?
@@kevink1575 From my experience, you're wrong. Most people **are** this dumb. Most of my co-workers think I'm some sort of genius. I'm smart, but I'm not **that** smart. Most Americans are simply incredibly uninterested in information.
Thank you for being a voice of reason on this. I've been low simmering with annoyance about the whole thing, profoundly not caring but wanting somebody to figure something out so that people would just shut up about it.
worded how i've been feeling perfectly. like we've got real stuff going on lets focus on that
If I were a part of a secret drone program to fly secret drones around New Jersey secretly, I would totally cover those secret drones with bright flashing, FAA compliant, lights.
Absolutely
What would be the purpose of those drones though, when you have public surveillance and warrants if necessary.
Xbabu, "warrants"
the idea that an elected official said that iran had a mothership of the coast and has not had to step down is shameful
The level of irresponsibly is shocking
Add on to that a elected official allegedly at the meeting where the US Navy informed them that they had destroyed the Iranian naval forces, during their last engagement. Unless he means alien Iranians from Alpha Centauri, he should literally be aware they cannot do that, as a result of the US forces winning last time. Either way mandatory drug tests for congress.
Insanity. Blame it on Iran . Or China or Russia. FFS how about America leaves the rest of the world alone?? Iran had a very bizarre sighting a while back. It did not look anything like some cheap drones we are seeing here. this thing was impressive. And more than a few people saw it at once from different angles. Try looking for it , you'll know when you find the videos. It's a sphere and it is one of the most beautiful sights I've ever seen. There are some very bizarre things that don't get shown easily online or on media. Things that are unnerving and certainly nothing that seems of man make. Have you ever heard those loud horn/trumpet things? Or ever seen the sky go black like it is being covered with a giant black sphere slowly pulling over it ? I mean day time to pitch black in a minute or so. Some strange things are happening out there, but the videos get buried and are extremely hard to locate.
As someone from outside the United States of America, why do the aliens only go to America like come on not even Europe?
USAF pilot got chased by a silver cigar shaped object for ~40mins. It was a bubble in his cockpit canopy.
Is _that_ what it was? Nice
@@Lantalialook mahne, being a red neck pilot is HARD okaaaayy
Human observers are garbage. No matter who they are. I have an uncle who swears the military showed him an invisible jeep once. He also did a lot of drugs in the military. So how do you know if he saw an invisible jeep. Or if he was high on mushrooms and his friends taped tinfoil to a jeep and absolutely blew his mind. I'm sure he is totally certain of what he saw. And he was a trained observer.... He's also a braggart and a pothead. Both can be true.
Unlikely since they have radar
@@1183newman The bubbles have radar!?!?
Whoever put that Tie Defender in at 9:03 is my freaking hero lol
More like a Cylon raider.. lol!
@Hedgewalkers I'm sorry friend but it's a pretty clearly a side view of a Tie Defender
An actual senator was freaking out over a meme of a tie fighter on a flatbed truck with the caption that stated it was a downed drone 🤣
Very well said.
When people bring up something I'm not knowledgeable about, or some huge unfolding news, and they ask me for my opinion on it, I tell them "I don't have an opinion yet, because I don't have enough information"
If they then show me something biased to see me more context, but it's limited to the narrative they side with, it drives them crazy that I *still* say I don't have enough information to form an opinion. Because if there are multiple ways to view it, I need to know, and I need more details, especially if some were withheld previously...
Even then, my brain has to chew on that information for a bit. It takes time to form your own opinions. If you don't know what something is, say you don't know. If you don't have enough information to form an opinion or come to a conclusion, then leave it open-ended for when you get more info. More info will come, and then we can be more sure. But we shouldn't be listening to confidently wrong podcasters with no background on identifying these things. People are so quick to believe something. They forget they don't have to have an opinion on what it might be.
Being so exhausted from the constant deluge of internet nuttery, the clear-eyed, rational thought in this video makes me so happy.
My day is now just better.
Joe Rogan has ruined an entire generation of young men.
@@DABA2024 Joe Rogan was ruined by an entire different generation - nothing new. Truth is, humanity is both extremely curious and extremely incurious. We want answers so bad we'll just make them up.
@@ratofthedumpster read the bible :)
This is why I like cryptozoology. Not necessarily because I think cryptids are real, but because the actual science/psychology and discourse around it is really interesting. I remember a show years ago where there were sightings of a large creature at the edge of a forest on the side of a road at night. A test was done to see how well people could perceive the size of a creature in the dark by putting humanoid cutouts along the side of that same road, having people drive past, and estimate the size of the cutouts. Pretty reliably, people tended to overestimate the size by a substantial margin. This is also true for things in the sky since, as mentioned in the video, there's nothing to reliably compare the size to.
On the side of believers though, specifically people who believe in aliens, a response to the question, "If aliens are here, shouldn't more people be seeing them?" is, "How often do you actually look up into the sky?" The first time I heard that question, I realized I don't personally look up into the night sky all that often. For all I know, there could be objects flying around up there all the time that I'd never know about. At this very moment, there could be something in the sky that I would see if I got up and walked over to my window, and I can't say for sure whether there is or isn't unless I actually take the time to check.
Then there's also the tendency when there's a cryptid sighting and a story gets around for other people to jump on the bandwagon and add to it, whether they're actually seeing something or not. One person sees mothman, and suddenly an entire town has their own version of a sighting story. Some might see an owl flying overhead that they overestimate the size of because they don't see owls very often, some might entirely make up a story for attention or to simply conform to the group, and in some situations there might actually be a creature not known to live in the vicinity that's newly discovered for that area. It happens on a much larger scale all the time too, like with the rash of shark attacks that led to the creation of the Jaws movies. There weren't any more shark attacks than normal at the time, but a news channel reported on it and got good ratings, so other news channels did the same. Suddenly it seemed like people were constantly being attacked by sharks out of nowhere.
So if you combine the tendency to overestimate the size of things at night, especially in the sky with no objects to use for a size reference, the fact that more people are actually looking up now and possibly seeing drones that have always been there, and that it's a popular issue to talk about right now, the drone situation makes perfect sense without there necessarily being anything malicious about it.
TL;DR, the drones are cryptids, basically.
I hate that I can't remember enough details to find this, but I believe there was a fairly modern string of sightings of an "escaped lion", in, I want to say England, and then when it was tracked down, it was just a moderately large stay dog or something. Wasn't anything remotely the size of a lion, but when you're afraid and uncertain, the scary thing looks BIG.
Totally agree man. What you said about the not looking often into the sky is 100% true
First political thing I saw a girl from my high-school post (12 years later) was that she was baffled that drones were invading but our prez and VP were no where to be found. Like they should have called for a national fireside chat to discuss the airplanes flying in our sky. How is THIS the first thing you're willing to embarrass yourself over by publicly posting about it
The neighborhood facebook group in my town is SO FUNNY about this. planes frequently fly over our town because we're right next to the major airport in the area, and the number of people going "I SAW A DRONE!!! IT'S HAPPENING HERE TOO!!!" and posting a picture of an airplane is the best.
"The aliens keep flying back and forth between here and at regular intervals?!?! What could they possibly be planning????"
@Imperial_Squid Even better detail I forgot to add: Not only are we like two towns over from the major airport, we also have a small private airport for prop planes and hobby aviators IN TOWN.
@@jupiterliam7961 lmao, I wonder how off the deep end they might go, like "the aliens must have holograms or some other kind of disguises, one of them claimed to be my flight instructor the other day?!? I couldn't tell the difference between the alien and the real guy, it was so weird!!!"
@Imperial_Squid I don't think the people in my town think they're aliens necessarily, but they definitely think they're surveillance drones. We have an aerospace government contractor in town that's a big employer, so I'm sure these people feel justified.
You haven’t seen one yet. I have they are legit.
I love the nuanced conversation that happens on Vlogbrothers
this should be their catchphrase- vlogbrothers: we make nuanced conversation happen
The “I don’t know” bit is the most important. Too many people are driven by stubbornness, pride and fear of not having answers or admitting they’re wrong. And it makes them so closed minded.
I saw someone post a live stream of a beach, where they were freaking out about a giant orb in the sky that was "summoning other orbs." It was the Moon that was brighter than normal with planes passing through the light of it. That's when I realized that most of these drone observations and assumptions were definitely wrong lol.
"the moon was brighter than normal with planes passing through the light of it"
Can you explain more what that means? I'm having trouble visualizing that.
@@peregrinecovington4138it's kind of like a giant orb summoning others.
@@peregrinecovington4138 Google can probably explain it better than I can, but the Moon isn't the same brightness every night. I'm pretty sure it depends on the phase of the Moon that night and a couple other factors. I worded the plane portion poorly, my bad. You know how at night, planes can look just like a dot of light? Imagine that, but they were passing in between the camera and the Moon. So for a split second, the light of the plane would blend in with the Moon and then reappear once the plane finished passing the Moon. I hope that makes sense.
@@Hydra48no one has posted this video... Are you kidding.... The moon?? You can't mistake the moon, I'm sorry but no.
@@peregrinecovington4138 Have you ever looked at the moon and thought "that's a lot bigger than I remember"? Some interaction of atmosphere and the moon's orbit sometimes amplifies it's presence in the sky for reasons I am not informed enough to explain.
The idea that answering the question "I don't know" with aliens is probably similar to how humanity came up with gods is haunting me right now
That was me about 5 years ago
That's exactly how we got religion. Invent a cause, pass it down thousands of generations till it's not questioned anymore.
It is exactly the same. God of the gaps.
its an american thing. people are not educated and the system with mass media spreads uncontrolled news. ABC news for example got hysteric about planet venus being a drone. well its popcorn time for me as an european, but i still love you americans.
Nah y'all need Jesus lol this got nothing to do with that at all
LOL, OMG, THIS IS PERFECT! I congratulate you on this beautifuly, perfectly explained post!
To quote Tim Minchin: "Throughout history, every mystery, ever solved, turned out to be NOT MAGIC."
Turned out to be not magic, not aliens and not god.
Is anyone saying that this has anything to do with magic? I just see some claims of it being alien technology, which is not magical whatsoever. Have you encountered a single claim of this being something magical?
Does that mean that all of the ones still unsolved definitely are magic, though? XD
Storm is genius!
@@Alice_FumoNo mysteries have ever turned out to be aliens either, tho. 🙃
In my AP bio class back in high school, for as best I can figure, shits and giggles my professor spent a class talking about the mind and about suggestion and how people can be primed to see things in even the most random splatter of ink of page and then showed us a slide, it was in black and white and was a chaos of spots and blotches all irregular. Then he pointed out that it was a black and white photo of a cow by a fence with a barn in the background and it was freaking nuts to experience that.
THANK YOU for bringing some sanity to this world.
This is one of the few times where instead of splitting my attention from viewing a video every few seconds on random intervals, I was completely engaged in the content and felt my brain happily dancing in it's cage as a result. Absolute cinema.
Hank, this was an absolutely masterful video. You are such a compelling and impactful storyteller and science communicator!
THANK YOU!!! Finally a voice of reason. :)
This phenomenon felt unique to TikTok. Many people on there were noticing the lack of NJ drone related content on other social media apps in comparison to TikTok, and felt that TikTok was the only reliable source. It turns out that TikTok is just very good at pushing content that is sensationalized. There was so much that it convinced me that there was actually something to be concerned about.
Someday I hope to get an explanation of what the blinking lights and slowed-down radio programs were all about.
"Slowed-down radio programs"? Seriously? How would that even work, would the program skip whenever it returned to normal? Speed up in order to catch up? Cripes.
I would suggest learning a little bit about aviation laws and drone rules if you would like to understand these things more as they're pretty well documented. Pretty much if the lights blinking, it's not weird. As for radio stations slowing down I don't know what you mean, but you can have distortions and disruptions and signals that when reconstructed by certain types of systems that are picking up the signal result in slowdown. Essentially we're talking about a variation of lag in systems with predictive algorithms. If you'd like to learn more about that, I think electronic communications engineering would be the area to look into😊 I'm just guessing though because it didn't have a name when I was doing that type of work, but it's sort of a way of reducing how degraded the station comes through when the signal is bad, it just has this really weird side effect.
"And your brain would conclude that's a big nut"
Oh, uh yeah. Definatly don't see a tiny squirrel. Nope, certainly not.
*gulp*
I've seen enough pics and footage of tiny vertebrates to be perfectly comfortable with a squirrel that size.
The Creation of all Religions started with the same inability to just say "I don't know" and be satisfied with that. We had to make up explanations for shit, instead of just saying "I don't know, and that's ok.. maybe we'll find out one day. but right now.. We don't know."
This! This is what I've been trying to tell people! I'm a BIG nerd and avid sky watcher. As soon as I saw the videos people were posting, I knew it was a mass hysteria-type incident. Well, my first thought actually was, "Y'all, if they were drones doing anything illegal, they wouldn't have the lights on." It's disappointing that people are so easily fooled.
Just the fact that people can't tell the difference between a drone and a plane is all you need to know. Oh, and that they're only shown at night.
@@repeat_defender they are real. This is happening. I saw them. 12/17 crystal clear night. I was a skeptic too. But what is saw blew my mind and I’ve been obsessed since. 12/18 was raining and cloudy. 12/19 I went out again they are in the sky from 530-9pm est. went back to where I saw them on 12/17. Didn’t see anything headed home and saw the blinking lights in the distance. Headed that way and parked in a field and saw over 20 from 8pm to 830.
This video both informed me that there is a drone issue in the news and that said issue is actually a nonissue. Thanks, Hank Green!
I don't know, and I am comfortable with that.
One of the best videos ever made. It should be required viewing in every high school in North America! 🎉😊
Also around Christmastime because it gets dark sooo early that people notice more totally normal lights in the sky. But like Hank said - we’ll likely not know the initial start.
Just as there is the “God of the Gaps” fallacy, there is now the “Aliens of the Gaps” fallacy.
"...Squirrel-sized nuts." Hank Green, 2024
Thank you Hank. America should watch this not just to learn about the drones, but to learn about how to think usefully about things that make you go hmmmm.
The words "...[they're] worried when they look at the sky when they usually don't look at the sky..." is a very important point. People are not used to all the things that normally can appear. If they are scared or on edge, their imagination runs away with them.
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Over the years, I've seen things that someone could presume was a UFO or a drone. My favorite was a moving UFO that I saw as a kid--it was a plane. I heard it as it went over and the odd lights was an ad of some kind. Another was a light that turned out to be on pole in the distance. It looked like it was moving and it was because I was in a car and approaching it on a curving road.
Being able to admit when you don't know what something is is such a powerful thing.
Congrats, you are looking pretty good these days. Hope recovery is going well 🪷
We used a car-sized octocopter drone for a movie shoot a few years back... it arrived on a flat deck truck, and we literally had a 1hr safety meeting about how when it was flying, NOBODY was to be anywhere near it.
While I don't know the source for the shimmering orb at 8:43, it looks like the one that was broadcast by abc7ny evening news at 5pm last week, by a reporter and a camera op doing a live spot from Mendham, NJ. If you plug in that location and time into a sky map program, to the south-southwest you will find Venus, at about 23 degrees altitude and 28 degrees azimuth
Smart man 👍. What is "azimuth"
Im so glad we dont have the 4 minute rule anymore! 18 mins gives time for sweet, delicious nuance 😋 🎉❤
Thank you !
I’ve been waiting for someone with an audience to call this out! So many “drone” videos are so obviously normal airplanes. It’s driving me nuts that this is so wide spread and not real at all.
I wonder if some of this is from younger generations being stuck inside too much, especially with things like the pandemic. I've definitely had some people show me some stuff where I'm just kind of flabbergasted because it's just so incredibly recognizable to me that I am confused by it being not recognizable. Maybe City light pollution is also been a problem so people don't see them regularly enough to realize that this always happens and has been happening for years or decades?
I've had a couple of people show me planes that are flying towards or away from them and a couple of people show me the space station. People who I would have expected to have seen these things before but apparently had not. I mean everybody has to ask the first time they see something, I'm just surprised the first time for a lot of people is teens to 40s.
This whole conversation reminds me of when I first joined Nextdoor and people were freaking out that drones were hovering over our county for a bit in the last year or two. It was so easy to believe the discourse too from how passionate people were. It also helped that I was home alone and have anxiety.
Turns out it was Jupiter. Everyone got really good at “drone” spotting but few people in my neighborhood had a star app on their phone to ask what it could be.
Nice, welcome to stargazing :D
No matter what it is, you can count on Nextdoor to overreact 🙃
thank you so much for making this video
when i saw the "mysterious orb" I immediately thought to myself: "that's just a bokeh... I have a photo of Jupiter on my phone that looks just like it"
It is sad that believers just dont get it. For them they are plasma orbs or even worst biblical angels.
Big Bokeh Balls
@@Existidor.Serial137
As an actual Biblically Accurate Angel I feel kind of offended.
Somewhere else, someone insisted that the "orb" couldn't possibly be something mundane, because they could clearly see a rotating cube in the middle of it.
Jeez, maybe we shouldn't legalize weed and mushrooms after all! 😉
I found myself being called a fed and getting heat by a bunch of people because I explained “that’s an out of focus image. Probably Venus or Jupiter.”
People truly believe these are angels or aliens and refuse to learn how things work.
Apparently we have this weird math that occurred in the last 5 years: Alex Jones + Covid Lockdowns + Trump = Narnia
We are all trapped here now forces to deal with people who distrust anything and everything, except the people who tell them to distrust anything and everything
"It's a MESS! We're in a mess! I kinda can't believe no-one is saying this!"
Thank you for saying it, Hank!
A Melee, as some whistleblowers and predictions have called it
This is one of my favourite episodes ever. Thank you, Hank!
As I was telling a friend: I would love it to be aliens, if only because it would further affirm that nothing makes sense right now. But, it's almost certainly not aliens. It's probably something boring, like drone hobbyists. Especially seeing as, specifically, many of these apparently have FAA lighting - would be very polite aliens.
Anyway, it's probably not polite aliens. Solid rant, Hank. 10/10, would send to aliens.
Those persky canadian lizard people scouting the US coast!
You would love it to be aliens ....what an idiot
John and Hank, when the pandemic hit a few years ago, i was a junior in high school who found comfort in science class and the days when my teacher would turn on a Crashcourse video. So it was really comforting when you guys made a video on the pandemic.
Sorry. I have to call this one out. The "object at 00:33" is from an American news report. It is the planet VENUS. You zoom in on it with a video camera and that's what it looks like.
I had absolutely no idea about this drone thing and it is WILD to learn about it in this way. It really does feel indicative of a very US thing right now.
We don’t know how much we don’t know. Stay safe out there 💜
We're all screwed here. Stay far away 😂😂
Idiocracy.
its an american thing. people are not educated and the system with mass media spreads uncontrolled news. ABC news for example got hysteric about planet venus being a drone. well its popcorn time for me as an european, but i still love you americans.
A lot of people feeling very uncertain and worried about our country and our future, and a lot of people all too ready to capitalize on those emotions. It definitely feels like a microcosm of where we’re at as a country right now 😕
I once woke up screaming to the sight of a 10 inch wide spider on the ceiling over me, just that it was half an inch wide and hangig by a thread right over my face...
Yes, that's much better.
I've had nightmares of that. 🛌🕷️
Spiders that big on the ceiling.. welcome to Australia!
@@jaredkennedy6576is it though?
Wow ... what a rant!
Thank you. Especially for the part starting at 13:15
"I don't know" is probably the most honest answer you can ever give anyone.
One of Hank's best, the strategic plagiarism is clever
This is an old quote but I always say it when stuff like this happens: *anything can be a UFO if you’re bad enough at identifying stuff*!
Love the part about how if we skip over the “I don’t know” part then we’ll stop looking and never actually know. Such a good way of putting it when some conspiracy minded people seem to think that we’re the ones getting in the way of The Truth™️
you can't discount every sighting though. There has definitely been some unexplained things in the skies since the dawn of time.
this flap though was 99-100% mass hysteria i'll agree 😂
Occam's Razor is an _excellent_ tool for this sort of thing. I suppose Hitchen's Razor applies, also.
Except for 8:16. That's _definitely_ the crystal firmament holding back the seas of Heaven.
as an avid stargazer who enjoys looking at the sky between dusk and 11pm, in new jersey : what?? i haven't seen a single thing. seems like a few strange sightings caused a mass hysteria
As an avid stargazer, you can probably identify most of the things you're seeing so they aren't notable or scary to you, like stars for instance lol.
@@mayaenglish5424 well yeah lol, but even in the number of planes/plane-like flying objects ive noticed, its not an uptick.
@@illuminoeye_gaming Right, I was making a joke, but seriously, like, you just identified the problem yourself lol. The number of "PLANES and plane like flying objects you have noticed" You correctly identified a bunch of things as planes and dismissed them from your brain. Then you identified a bunch of other things as "plane like" possibly drones, who knows and dismissed them from your brain rather than jumping to ALIENS!!!!! or GOVERNMENT SHENANIGANS!!!!! (Which like, the gov is definitely up to shenanigans, but we can't automatically jump to that every time we see something weird).
You are probably outside at night on a regular basis and have a consistent view of the situation long term, whereas these people do not and are suddenly looking up and going, oh $#!% there's lots of stuff in the sky and I don't know what any of it is!!!! AAAAAAHHH!!!!!
@@illuminoeye_gaming you haven’t seen anything but I have. These are legit. I saw over 50 the other night 12/17. I was a skeptic too. Figured it was being blown out of proportion. But when i saw them I was blown away and have been obsessed ever since.
@erictasakovic9181 people think because they haven't seen it so it can't be possible. Yes, people misidentify things, but that's not what's happening over Langley, Ramstein, Lakenheath, Naval Station Earle, Wright Pat, etc.
Thank you Hank!! As a NJ resident who even before all this enjoyed watching all the planes coming and going from the airports, I do feel strongly that I have seen some drones. But you helped me feel better about this blowing over without major incident. I appreciate you now and always! DFTBA 💙
Mayorkas explained that in September 2023, the Federal Aviation Administration tweaked its policy on drones to allow flights at night. NY Post
This video feels a little bit like Carl Sagan. I remember how he had to keep reminding us about this stuff. Especially the last piece about aliens. Reminded me about his Dragon in the garage from his book "The demon haunted world: Science as a candle in the dark". Its kinda profetic in how relevant the book still is. Thanks Hank!
Thank. You. Hank. My friends would probably be super surprised to learn that I don’t believe these sightings are aliens, but I don’t. All the same i couldn’t put in to words all the reasons I remain skeptical. You are one of the few loud voices of rationality out there and for that I’m thankful.
Thank You Hank for your wisdom and humor in this matter. Merry Christmas!
I live in New Jersey, in an area where there have been a lot of sightings. I've been avoiding looking at the sky at night and initially, I just figured that it was the local joint base testing something. Given the lack of further, credible evidence, I'm assuming that it's just people misinterpreting the perfectly mundane things that they were seeing in the sky.
It might have started with the test of something. Clearly that's not what people are seeing at this point, but wouldn't be unexpected for there to be a test flight of something. People jumping to wild conclusions is beneficial for when test flights get seen because it distracts from what they actually are, though in this case anything that's lit up at night probably isn't stealth anything😂
You had an opportunity to use your own eyes but kept your head in the sand. Nice
@ Why the hell would I trust my own eyes. I’m just as human, fallible and uninformed as all of the idiots who got swept up in the panic and made false reports. Aside from a brief and fairly reasonable early assumption, that I didn’t act on, I chose to keep my “head in the sand” because I have chronic anxiety and OCD and I didn’t want them to cause me to do something rash and irrational if I did see something I could immediately explain. So, I chose to reduce that possibility until I got credible evidence from experts or the whole situation blew over and turned out to be nothing. Which appears to be where we are.
i've seen maybe 4 things about this, mostly people referencing it in jokes. i live under a rock and it's awesome here
I have also not seen those jokes. My rock has your rock beat 💪
Also, I don't live in the states, may have something to do with that
@@christafranken9170 I haven't heard about this, nor have I seen the jokes, and I DO live in the states, checkmate! My rock is the superior rock!
“Why is the government so concerned?”
They’re not. The government doesn’t care. There’s nothing illegal going on. When they drones start doing something illegal, then call the cops.
The "say" their flying ove military bases, but they're not doing anything illegal, do people think they would let them really do that?
9:20 This right here is exactly what frustrates me to no end. Every single message is always misconstrued to be the most outrageous clickbaity version of itself. Unexplained object in the sky -> it's unexplained therefore it defies physics, officials can't 100% confirm what something is -> scientists are baffled by strange objects in sky.
That's literally every headline about this subject. Our media is so incredibly bad.
Proper leadership would have taken public concerns seriously, educated the community about night sky objects-as this gentleman has done-and ensured public safety by investigating and identifying them. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen, leading to the significant confusion and concern we’re facing now. What we’ve witnessed, aside from the issue with drones, is a display of truly terrible and reckless leadership-though the mayors have been an exception to this.
Eh, people don't believe what leadership says if it doesn't confirm what they already believe. Adults can't be educated anymore.
The kind of public that freaks out about something like this isn't the kind of public that is smart enough to elect valuable representatives.
I have built and flown drones. The videos that actually have drones and not planes or stars or passing satellites, are all small drones you can buy premade and all of them have a limited range and that is basically within sight of the controller. They have two wavelengths ideal enough to broadcast on one for controls and one for any onboard cameras. All it would take is to broadcast the same wavelengths to make it impossible to fly it jamming that entire wavelength. After the battery gets close to dead it would land itself as it's programmed to do. Sometimes they will return to the controller, depending on the programming. Some handheld radios can jam the video feed. I crashed into a tree once because of this. Everyone is overreacting to something they don't understand. They are just Christmas gifts. They are covered in RGB lights. Do you think a spy drone would have RGB lights?
What a breath of fresh air Hank. Thanks so much.
10 out of 10 vid Hank. Appreciate you
Amazing to see public hysteria in action as it happens.
9:37 the realest statement about being an American right now