What drives me nuts are the reporters or TH-cam influencers who assumed that if the report is from a policeman or a first responder, then they are trained to recognize these things in the sky. They are not!
These people aren't immune to hysteria, no doubt. That said, some of the reports from these people go beyond mistaking lights in the sky. State police witnessed 50 drones coming in off the coast. Coast Guard claims they were followed by a dozen drones, a rescue helicopter had to be rerouted, airports have been temporarily shut down. Is everyone just lying? I'm as skeptical as anyone but come on. Air traffic control is just mistaken? The Coast Guard? The video evidence is nill but these reports are interesting.
@@_PawelPietrzak He just presented the source of his information! The lights correlate with known air traffic in the area at that time. Or with the known locations of stars and planets at that time. It doesn't matter if you analyze flight radar data in New Jersey while you have eyes on the airplanes or do so from Timbuktu.
The same people that hold up a cop's eyewitness report as irrefutable evidence, will then go to another video and moan about how cops are idiots and dishonest. It's Schrodinger's eyewitness with these people.
It happened in my own city. A city in the flight path of major west coast airport, a joint Air Force and Army base, and multiple Navy bases. I spend alot if time outside, and looking up and identifying planes, because we get some cool air traffic from the military bases. Anyway, my city's subreddit were posting "drone" videos, and they were literally just the common airliner traffic, none of it was even military. It really made me realize that people just never look up. They saw a news story of drones, ran outside, saw the first light, and thought it must also be a drone. Even worse when these same people think they've uncovered some grand conspiracy.
I suspect, like UFOs & UAPs, the flight characteristics will improve over time also... "no hobby drone can fly that fast", "no manned aircraft can make hairpin turns like that" etc.
For one day they all drones were controlled by an AI!☝Another day they were from a mothership from Iran. Almost everyday the narrative changes so people won´t get bored.
@@BelindaM44 Com on Berlinda, az smart as your, surely you're have moor two ad to this disclusion, I meen obliviously you disagree with the sentamint he went and comveighed az your not policing anywere else in the commets? Use you're words.
If people commenting on unidentified drones don’t know what they are, how can they know their size, distance, altitude or speed? If doing something illegal, why are they lit up like Christmas trees, drawing attention to themselves? Most, if not all, are regular aircraft.
What I don’t understand is why none of these 'offending' hobbyists come forward to inform the public about what’s really going on and put an end to this mass hysteria. Also, what does it say about our government-John Kirby and company-that they can’t solve such a straightforward “riddle”?
@@dustsky They did solve it? They looked into it and said, these were misidentified aircraft. People who wanted to believe said, nuh-uh. You can't fight that. If someone is willing to believe against all evidence that something is there, no amount of reason will convince them otherwise. It was the whole subject of the video we just watched.
It's amazing when you have a 'professional videographer' who doesn't even know when their subject is out of focus! This is why people need to be careful about 'appealing to authority.'
I think it was the US air force that was proudly showing images of "green triangles", that they'd observed through night vision cameras..... that went on for a VERY long time, and those images are STILL being used today, on ufo documentaries, even though they were debunked ages ago! I thought at the time, how concerning it was, that air force personnel weren't trained on how to use night vision properly, and how unusual, objects can look when viewed through them!
@@errorsapiens5633 All I know is I saw the video on The Daily Mail and the person announcing was working for ABC news. I would assume they should know what they're doing.
@@errorsapiens5633 I'm sure the footage is somewhere on here but if you want to see what I'm talking about just search for the DM article "Conspiracy theories suggest mystery drones are part of Project Blue Beam plot to control skies."
I wish there was an international holiday where the light pollution was temporarily mitigated so more people could get a better look at the true night sky. 🌃
Big things that are far away look small. Fast things that are far away look slow. Things in the sky that move away from you look like they're going down. Things that are really far away like the Moon and the stars look like they follow you. Things in the sky that twinkle are stars.
Thanks you, Mic West. This is the calm and clear explanation that every responsible reporter and government authority should be sharing. If this hysteria doesn't break soon, some nut jobs will start shooting at planes.
@@bat2293 It's sad. People are demanding transparency about the great UFO cover up when all we're seeing is common aircraft and some blurry lights. Just a touch of basic skepticism could lead them here, but nope.
It's quite possible that this drone madness started with a few people from New Jersey who frequently post on the ufo sub-reddit, who happened to look up for once and notice lots of things flying around! With blinking red and green, white lights! Just tell them to look up what navigation lights are.
Resoning of what? He just parrot what white house said. He can't even tell you why they're flying drones for the last month in NJ. Heck, it took white house a month to say something we've already knew.
All the people that really need to see it wont see it, though. That's the huge problem with the internet/social media these days. It's far too easy to fall into insular bubbles of information and opinions that will reaffirm everything you want to be affirmed, all while people simply do not see or willfully ignore any sort of info or commentary that might pop up that isn't saying what they want to believe. It's becoming nearly impossible to penetrate mass lies and misinformation these days.
@albi55uk huh? How did you jump to that conclusion? There is strange drone activity and that's a fact. Not every drone is a multicopter. Some are fixed-wing.
I know you’re gonna get slammed hard for this video but I agree with you 100%. I really went down the rabbit hole on this drone thing, watching dozens of videos, NONE of which showed anything other than airliners or indeterminate points of light (which were also probably airliners from far away, heading towards the viewer). This is all mass hysteria. I have come away from this with a newfound appreciation for the gullibility and stupidity of the average person. Kind of depressing, to be honest.
I did see a handful of what are probably actually drones, but just the usual hobby drones operating entirely within the confines of the law. It really doesn't help that most people don't understand the absolutely insane maneuvers that modern drones can perform, which drives even more claims of alien visitation.
@@hydra70 Yes and on that topic I think a handful of actual drone incidents (civilian or possibly military drones) probably were the initial triggers to all this panic. People (including uniformed personnel who should know better) just took the initial reports and ran with them. Or maybe we're the morons for being logical about this.
Thanks for this, Mick. The minute I heard about the first "drone sighting," I was highly skeptical, and figured it wouldn't be long before you checked in with some sanity!
I'm okay with ordinary people making these mistakes of identification, but elected officials going on TV both indulging in and spreading misinformation is something else.
And then the officials saying they have no evidence of aliens, or chinese drone swarms, or threats, are deemed the "liars" in some grand conspiracy to trick everyone in a "test" or whatever. It's depressing how backwards it all is. Promote panic and hysteria, youre fighting for truth. Promote logical and balanced analysis, you're deemed a part of the cover up.
The way this story has spreed reminds me of something called the Seattle Windshield Pitting Epidemic of 1954 in which car windshields were being "mysteriously" damaged. After a big hubbub and a lot of wild theories it turned out there wasn't really an uptick in windshields being damaged instead people were noticing and reporting damage they hadn't before because of reporting on it.
No, not idiocy, just humanity. Our brains work certain ways, and from time to time something triggers us and a group of us goes chasing after things that aren't there in a "flap." It used to happen a lot with UFOs, it happened a few years ago with Creepy Clowns. it happened back before the Wright Brothers with a "Phantom Airship" flap across the US. Yes, it seems inexplicable to those not caught up in it, but we should all be aware that in the right circumstances, it can happen to any of us. The good news is, being aware of the phenomenon makes you less susceptible to falling into the next one. But there are no grounds for disparaging folks who are caught up in this one.
Thanks for the video Mick… would be interesting to see your take on why Wright Patterson was closed down for 8 hours because of “large UAS” thx again always classy in your responses
It's really journalistic laziness in the reports that label these things by default as drones. Before, it was UAPs, which at least had a modicum of integrity in that it simply called unknown things as unidentified...something that left room for it to be later CLARIFIED as having a pedestrian explanation. Calling these things "drones" (not even "suspected" drones) bothered me more than anything. I'm standing by for the hundreds of news outlets to issue corrections once they take the time to see that these are all passenger, military or law enforcement manned craft. Not holding my breath though.
@JH-6g5 That is what people do: stigmatize people who behave in ways that make them uncomfortable. It doesn't matter what the term is. Creating a new term actually reinforces the stigma unless people's views/behavior also change. Sometimes they can even be counterproductive. For example, once upon a time there was this condition called "shell shock". Now, it is "post-traumatic stress disorder". Sure, most cases of it don't involve shells, and I get that scientific terms are generally neutral like that. But I'm not talking about scientific discourse lol. I'm talking about newspeak.
These people might actually believe their room light reflecting off of the corner of their window is a ghost. Thank you for being light in the sea of unnecessary ignorance and stupidity.
what baffles me is that these planes have been circulating the night sky for a long time, what happened now that made everyone suddenly "see" them and freak out? are some of them new plane models with different light configurations or something, so they looked "weird"? or is the cause purely psychological?
Personally, I think it's some good old distraction and preparing people for what 47s admin wants to do (make drones illegal maybe, to prevent being monitored, maybe make tracking actual aircraft illegal too).
It’s like humanity at large has lost all critical thinking skills. Why are so many people so quick to believe outlandish conspiracy theories? Theories that are debunked so easily, yet they continue to bury their heads in the sand and believe all conspiracies and connect them all together. This world is so depressing. I appreciate you Mick! Please don’t ever stop being a voice of reason
Pandemic really broke like solid 20-40% of people's brains (at least in US ) Nothing out of mundane can't just happen anymore. It needs to be turned in to some grand conspiracy or plot almost reflexively. Hurricanes can't be just forces of nature in motion. No.. FEMA is creating and steering them. Wildfires..? How about some Jewish space lasers instead. Cargo ship collides with bridge.. Must be because captain was not white..probably maybe Joe Bidens America something something. They are eating pets! It's borderline mass psychosis. Sad and sickening at the same time.
Poor critical thinking skills, total lack of media literacy, no capacity for discussing anything with nuance, etc. Everybody is just a reactionary now. There's so few reasonable people left.
Some say that Mick is part of an operation to cover up all of the sightings to discredit them, as everything in the sky and under water is clearly aliens Some despair at this, but not enough
Silver lining is that some may take an interest in our night sky, astronomy, safe and fun use of quadcopters, even aircraft identification. Maybe a few telescopes and binoculars for Christmas instead of phones, tablets and game consoles. 🎅🎁
I hang out in astro subreddits and we have people ALL THE TIME posting bad pics of what are pretty clearly planes asking for identification of this strange thing they saw (“it definitely wasn’t a plane”) and when told what they are showing and describing matches a plane exactly they’re all ‘no it wasn’t, i know what a plane looks like’ but realistically people are just so generally unobservant that the moment anyone tells them to look up into the sky they start discovering things hitherto unknown to Humanity
The "It Definitely Wasn't Whatever It Actually Was" statement is becoming a cliche in UFO reports. I am not sure ifit indicates some folks know, at least subconsciously, that what they saw was nothing exciting after all, or maybe they want to rule out the thing they recognize that it sort of looks like (and actually is). But it is a very real phenomenon now, and probably needs a clever name.
@@JMartJr It's becoming a cliche in so many aspects of our society nowadays, really. Just a straight up rejection of reality if it doesn't fit what people WANT to believe. There is so little actual care for the truth anymore.
This has all been completely hilarious from start to a very soon finish....Problem is is that a lot of people prefer to believe it's an intergalactic reconnaissance mission rather than a drone or commercial aircraft (again hilarious) either trolling or going about their daily business.
I fulle agree. Just a couple of days ago I saw a tabloid front page here on the other side of the Atlantic, and these "drones" were the headline, with a huge picture of one alledged sighting. And I burst out laughing alone in the line of a supermarket checkout because it was so obviously a planet, highly magnified and out of focus.
I'm a Brit. I'll have to check out some of the online tabloids! 😅 Since "he" won the election, I had to take a break from US news 😮💨 so I have no idea what's going on. Panic and hysteria over misidentification of aircraft sounds about right 😅. There's ALWAYS something! 🙄
@@Zlist1994 US politics are irrelevant. It's just a theatre. This comment speaks more about you than about Americans though. You're not very smart are you.
So the word "probably" is enough to discard the footage of what looks like a plasma orb as an "out of focus image of Venus". I wonder where Venus would have actually appeared in the sky that night, any research on that, Mick?
Well, that answers the question I had as to why secret spy drones would be thoughtful enough to leave their navigation lights on for everyone's convenience...
I don't usually rely on conspiracy theories, but it wouldn't surprise me if UFO communities are being targeted by political/geo-political bot campaigns. The pure stupidity in some of reddit's UFO subs is off the charts.
What are odds that a 'threatening drone', say, operated by China, would fly around at night with bright lights flashing saying 'look at me! I'm in clear view!'? That would be the equivalent of a bank robber with his/her name and address written on the front of their ski-mask. :) word of advice to our 'special' UFO enthusiasts: use your brain.
I had wondered why the drones, apparently doing reconnaissance on infrastructure air bases etc., were flying around at night with their lights on. With lights off, they would almost never be noticed. Makes much more sense to me that the lights being seen aren't drones.
I tried to explain this to some people on reddit and discord. They just said they are trying to scare us. I think people noticing a drone without lights on is much more scary than one with big bright lights you can see from miles away. But the thing is there are 55 pound drones you can buy that do have lights on them that people can fly around. That would also explain this.
To say that prankster hobbyists drove the New York airport and Wright Patterson base (the fu**ing Air Force, they know how to recognize an aircraft) into hysteria until they closed the airspace is madness. There's clearly more to it than just hysteria
I love the doublethink that I'm seeing in the UFO subreddit. People will simultaneously say "If it's just mass hysteria, then why is the government investigating it?" Then when the government says "nah, it's just planes" they immediately say that it's gaslighting. Then the worst part is that they will continue to use the argument that it can't be hysteria because the government is investigating it.
You're blaming folks for wanting answers because the gov doesn't even know wtf it is 😂😂😂😂😂dude you make no sense. Still doesn't solve wtf these are coming from. This wasn't happening last year
As a drone pilot it's disappointing and unsettling to hear the inflated fear of drones driven by ignorance and prejudice. As hobbyists, the vast majority take great pains to ensure safe operation away from people and restricted places. This is true X10 for professionals whose reputation and livelihood depend on being safe and reliable. The future is full of drones, so people really need to get used to them. At the same time, privacy, safety and peace of mind need to be respected.
I am the son of a career USAF NCO, grew up in the 60's on busy military air bases. Watched, fascinated, all sorts of aircraft in all sorts of weather at all times of the day or night both far away and as they approached and landed. (As a kid I saw an E-3 AWACS when they were new, rolling out for takeoff through the fog on the runway...big radome illuminated by the other flashing navigation lights... talk about a dead-ringer for a UFO!) I'm also a space/aviation and astronomy enthusiast and constantly have my eyes and head in the sky. I live on the East Coast too not too far from Patuxent Naval Air Station... "Area 51 of the East", though it's probably not quite as busy with the "spooky" ( i.e. classified/exotic/experimental/developmental) stuff as the one in Nevada. This area is also one of the busiest North/South highways-in-the sky in the world. All that wordy prolog to my point is just to say: I STILL get fooled by and puzzled by things I see in the sky. They can look new and unique, even though they always turn out to be prosaic and mundane objects doing pretty boring stuff, or that distant light or object that is undefinable because of it's distance and lack of information, not it's nature.
"There's a series of objects with clearly fixed wings and flashing lights procedurally going across the sky near the airport. These are definitely NOT planes!"
lol, you mean people are looking down at their phones at videos other people took while those other people looked up at their phones pointed at the sky. ;)
Mass hysteria, it's almost like we're living in a parallel with some folks that are living in the Bronze Age who have never seen an airplane, helicopter or a drone in their entire lives. It's pathetic.
Thank you. I do fault the government to some degree, though. Some of their answers given to reporters' questions seem almost intended to provoke a suspicious reaction. There's a difference between saying "there are no confirmed instances of drones in restricted airspace" and calmly explaining how they have gone about identifying that nearly all sightings were manned aircraft, like you did here in only 3 minutes and 42 seconds.
They've got a million people screeching at them, giving conflicting information and demanding immediate answers without allowing time to sift through it all. They also aren't allowed to say "it's all planes, you're all dumbasses, and this is a mass hysteria event" because then people will screech at them even more. John Kirby's statement was as close to that as he could reasonably get away with, and the UFOlogists are absolutely seething about it.
Next year, the craze will be people reporting large metal tubes with wings soaring through the sky. What could they be? Why are they so loud? Why do some of them leave trails behind? What could it mean?!
Ah thank Gawd for a bit of sanity. Thanks Mick for your logic and analysis against the absurdity of TH-cam Idiocracy and a mass hysteria that confuses aeroplanes for aliens.
People don’t spend time looking at the sky much any more. They are told something weird is going on, they look at the sky and misidentify stuff that was there everyday.
Living under the flyway of the most heavily trafficked area for military and civilian aircraft in Nevada, I’ve become pretty good at identifying aircraft. I did suspect that some of them were drones, as they were not identified by the online tools. However, I think unmanned military aircraft has to be over in the restricted airspace and not over residential areas.
Great video about a lot of the lay person sightings making the rounds on the internet these days, but what you completely failed to address is what about Langley Air Force Base and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and Pendleton and many other military airfields that were closed down recently due to uas activity. Langley has been overflown every December for the last 3 years right around the same time. That is concerning and the government completely ignored it in their statements.
Thank you Mick! I've been telling my wife this exact same thing for days now. People suddenly looking up that have never looked up before, and seeing something that is totally unrecognized by them at night, so they automatically jump to the absolutely wrong conclusion due to recent "news". Although, with that being said, I'm not sure if the incursion over the Picatinny Arsenal airspace would qualify as NOT being of national security impact. Just sayin'.
Hi Mick. Thanks For The Reality Check As Always!. I Think People Are Generally Looking Into The Sky More!🤷 & Like Any New Subject We Need Some Education As To What We Are Looking At!. Tony, Suffolk UK
Thank you Mick for being the voice of reason with this. I watched a United States Representative call for "shooting these things down" on cable news while a video that was very obviously a Southwest Airlines 737 with the tail colors and the lettering plainly visible played on the opposite side of the screen from him, captioned as "Drone captured flying over New Jersey." This is pure lunacy at this point.
"I watched a United States Representative call for "shooting these things down" on cable news while a video that was very obviously a Southwest Airlines 737 with the tail colors and the lettering plainly visible played on the opposite side of the screen from him, captioned as "Drone captured flying over New Jersey." Can you share a link to that?
I’m so frustrated. I live in New Jersey and every night for weeks. I have drones flying over my house. I have so much footage. They take the same flight pattern and continue to take that flight pattern in intervals of three minutes and they do this for hours. I can’t believethat this is being dismissed in the way that it is ..please come see for yourself.
This is very simple. Rumors got started, so people got curious and started looking up more than usual. Probably more than ever. So they are seeing things they've never seen, and they're already suggestible. And word got bigger, so more people started looking up, and they start to see things they don't understand or want to be something they're not. The only failing is the media for not calling reality what it is.
So why is there a sudden increase in known aircraft over coastal New Jersey? The residents are obviously seeing something which is significantly outside their normal daily experiences. They're used to seeing airplanes, sure, but clearly they're seeing way, way more planes now which is part of why they're taking notice. Why the sudden, dramatic, marked increase in air traffic?
Have you considered that what is really happening is an increase in numbers of people who are deliberately looking at the night sky in hopes of seeing something extraordinary?
The vast, vast majority of people do not spend every moment of their lives being aware of everything around them. They are typically not looking up at the sky at night and trying to interpret the lights that they're seeing. But of course when a bunch of stories going around online and on the news and whatnot start talking about 'scary' lights in the sky, guess what? They actually do start looking up and trying to interpret what they're seeing, except they have no real basis of knowledge or understanding of these things because they've never really done this before. Combined with the Power of Suggestion, their interpretations tend to simply be awful and terribly unreliable. Even the god damn governor of New Jersey misinterpreted the constellation of Orion as drones, ffs.
@@darklight2.1 this includes state police calling in over the radio literally dozens of low-flying small aircraft approaching land from the ocean in one sitting. Obviously not standard air traffic, and obviously not an untrained observer.
@@HisBortness You ignored the point. What makes you think that state police aren't subject to the same increase in observation of the sky? "Trained observers"? Are they sky cops now? What leads you to believe that state police driving around in their cruisers are one bit more familiar with what happens in the night sky than anyone else? You are really reaching.
No they aren't, their consciousness is being nurtured by the media. And even then, the surmise that it's aliens is braindead. It's amazing how people are so willfully taken in by the media they consume. Tons of things are happening in the world that you are not aware of on a daily basis. If some media apparatus starts focusing on it, people are going to start acting like it's happening more often. This is nothing new, we understand this phenomenon. People parse reality largely through the media especially nowadays. Media is a double edged sword.
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Good work on clarifying these reports - any idea what closed down Wright Patterson a couple of days ago? Visual from incoming pilots and nothing spotted from ATC at WP. Removing at remarkable speeds according to pilots - who were told live on air that the base was closed.
What drives me nuts are the reporters or TH-cam influencers who assumed that if the report is from a policeman or a first responder, then they are trained to recognize these things in the sky. They are not!
These people aren't immune to hysteria, no doubt. That said, some of the reports from these people go beyond mistaking lights in the sky.
State police witnessed 50 drones coming in off the coast. Coast Guard claims they were followed by a dozen drones, a rescue helicopter had to be rerouted, airports have been temporarily shut down.
Is everyone just lying?
I'm as skeptical as anyone but come on. Air traffic control is just mistaken? The Coast Guard?
The video evidence is nill but these reports are interesting.
Or when pilots are held up as being especially credible- they're not.
@@_PawelPietrzak He just presented the source of his information! The lights correlate with known air traffic in the area at that time. Or with the known locations of stars and planets at that time. It doesn't matter if you analyze flight radar data in New Jersey while you have eyes on the airplanes or do so from Timbuktu.
The same people that hold up a cop's eyewitness report as irrefutable evidence, will then go to another video and moan about how cops are idiots and dishonest. It's Schrodinger's eyewitness with these people.
@@_PawelPietrzak zero evidance of drones, COPE
Following this has been crazy, it's like everyone just stopped looking at their phone screens and looked at the sky for the first time.
That's quite literally what happened.
Maybe that could be the start of a good thing?
@@JH-6g5 Maybe they quit X/Twitter, and went outside at night for the first time since the pandemic.
It happened in my own city. A city in the flight path of major west coast airport, a joint Air Force and Army base, and multiple Navy bases. I spend alot if time outside, and looking up and identifying planes, because we get some cool air traffic from the military bases. Anyway, my city's subreddit were posting "drone" videos, and they were literally just the common airliner traffic, none of it was even military. It really made me realize that people just never look up. They saw a news story of drones, ran outside, saw the first light, and thought it must also be a drone. Even worse when these same people think they've uncovered some grand conspiracy.
That's exactly what's happening,the average person hasn't got a clue what they are looking at in the night sky
The "drones" have went from "car sized" to "SUV" now "bus sized"
Soon they will be AIRPLANE sized... flying out of Newark... 🤔💡🤦♂️
I suspect, like UFOs & UAPs, the flight characteristics will improve over time also... "no hobby drone can fly that fast", "no manned aircraft can make hairpin turns like that" etc.
My favorite was the NJ guy who said "it looked like a helicopter and sounded like a helicopter, but it wasn't the normal flightpath"
For one day they all drones were controlled by an AI!☝Another day they were from a mothership from Iran. Almost everyday the narrative changes so people won´t get bored.
Have went, learn proper grammar, please.
@@BelindaM44
Com on Berlinda, az smart as your, surely you're have moor two ad to this disclusion, I meen obliviously you disagree with the sentamint he went and comveighed az your not policing anywere else in the commets? Use you're words.
Funny also: Some are reported to be the size of cars of busses. I really wonder how people judge sizes of these objects especially at night.🤣
It was like a bus, in the air! Definitely not a Boeing.
I guess they 'reckon'..and god help you if you question that 'reckoning'
So i guess they just closed Stewart airport over nothing. lol 😂
If people commenting on unidentified drones don’t know what they are, how can they know their size, distance, altitude or speed? If doing something illegal, why are they lit up like Christmas trees, drawing attention to themselves? Most, if not all, are regular aircraft.
@@jonathanlandry3491 Probably idiots jumping on the hype bandwagon and flying their drones too close to the airport.
As a drone hobbyist, I thank you. We are under enough scrutiny already and all we need is another “War of the Worlds” panic.
What I don’t understand is why none of these 'offending' hobbyists come forward to inform the public about what’s really going on and put an end to this mass hysteria.
Also, what does it say about our government-John Kirby and company-that they can’t solve such a straightforward “riddle”?
@@dustsky They do. They are ignored because mystery gets views and the mundane truth doesn't.
@@dustsky I recommend a channel called '51 Drones' he gives you his take and he is a hobbyist.
@@dustsky They did solve it? They looked into it and said, these were misidentified aircraft. People who wanted to believe said, nuh-uh. You can't fight that. If someone is willing to believe against all evidence that something is there, no amount of reason will convince them otherwise. It was the whole subject of the video we just watched.
It's amazing when you have a 'professional videographer' who doesn't even know when their subject is out of focus! This is why people need to be careful about 'appealing to authority.'
I think it was the US air force that was proudly showing images of "green triangles", that they'd observed through night vision cameras..... that went on for a VERY long time, and those images are STILL being used today, on ufo documentaries, even though they were debunked ages ago!
I thought at the time, how concerning it was, that air force personnel weren't trained on how to use night vision properly, and how unusual, objects can look when viewed through them!
One can wonder if this Professional photographer works for any kind of media making a buck or two on sensationalism...
@@errorsapiens5633 All I know is I saw the video on The Daily Mail and the person announcing was working for ABC news. I would assume they should know what they're doing.
@@errorsapiens5633 I'm sure the footage is somewhere on here but if you want to see what I'm talking about just search for the DM article "Conspiracy theories suggest mystery drones are part of Project Blue Beam plot to control skies."
@@jries77 They probably did. They knew they were being sensational.
If we get a large scale power outage on a clear night - people might even see nebula and our galaxy. That will be a crazy reaction too.
That has actually happened before and resulted in alot of calls to 911 lol.
Don’t look up!! 😂
I wish there was an international holiday where the light pollution was temporarily mitigated so more people could get a better look at the true night sky. 🌃
@@Copperkaiju that's kinda what earth day and even Earth Hour tried to do.
U only gonna have to wait a few months
The most underrated channel on TH-cam thank you for being the voice of reason during stupid times
😂Lmao debunkers in panic mode. He went from it's just lights on the hill to mass hysteria 😂 1 min silence for MW fanboys
@@Phat88Tony You realize it can be both lights on the hill and mass hysteria right?
😂 What next racoons and puppet shows? @@bitcoinweasel9274
@@Phat88Tony ... you do realize the two things you said aren't mutually exclusive, right?
@@Tico1818 No he doesn´t. He thinks it is debunking to recognize a plane, low IQ, obviously.
"Look, Dougal - these drones are *small*, those planes are *far away*"
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Big things that are far away look small.
Fast things that are far away look slow.
Things in the sky that move away from you look like they're going down.
Things that are really far away like the Moon and the stars look like they follow you.
Things in the sky that twinkle are stars.
Ah, I see you a fellow gentleman connoissuer of the comedic arts! 🎩
@orterves man I feckin miss Father Ted
One of the sightings looked like super zoomed in footage of the ISS in orbit
Thanks you, Mic West. This is the calm and clear explanation that every responsible reporter and government authority should be sharing. If this hysteria doesn't break soon, some nut jobs will start shooting at planes.
Unfortunately, calm and clear explanations don't make good attention grabbing headlines.
Some idiots aim laser pointers at the "drones", which in fact are just regular planes. So it is already getting dangerous.
@@bat2293 It's sad. People are demanding transparency about the great UFO cover up when all we're seeing is common aircraft and some blurry lights. Just a touch of basic skepticism could lead them here, but nope.
Voice of reason
finally a clear and precise reasoning in the midst of mass hysteria
He is a paid shill for Japanese rice industry!
It's quite possible that this drone madness started with a few people from New Jersey who frequently post on the ufo sub-reddit, who happened to look up for once and notice lots of things flying around! With blinking red and green, white lights! Just tell them to look up what navigation lights are.
Mick addresses the 90% of plane footage we've seen but not the other 10% which are clearly drones.
Resoning of what? He just parrot what white house said. He can't even tell you why they're flying drones for the last month in NJ. Heck, it took white house a month to say something we've already knew.
you are the only one thats hysterical.All the clueless units, that thought they saw birds and balloons this entire time.
Remember when using spy drones always turn on your nav lights so you can be visible for miles. 🤦
Same if you're visiting from another planet or dimension, keep your brights on.
This was exactly what I said too. Why would you use drones to spy and leave all the lights on? That makes absolutely no sense 😂
It's depressing we need a video like this.
All the people that really need to see it wont see it, though. That's the huge problem with the internet/social media these days. It's far too easy to fall into insular bubbles of information and opinions that will reaffirm everything you want to be affirmed, all while people simply do not see or willfully ignore any sort of info or commentary that might pop up that isn't saying what they want to believe. It's becoming nearly impossible to penetrate mass lies and misinformation these days.
So... Why the Stewart airfield was closed?
@@pewneosoby2108 Aliens?
@albi55uk huh? How did you jump to that conclusion? There is strange drone activity and that's a fact. Not every drone is a multicopter. Some are fixed-wing.
@@pewneosoby2108 Drones. Do you not know what a drone is? If not, this video will help you understand.
I know you’re gonna get slammed hard for this video but I agree with you 100%. I really went down the rabbit hole on this drone thing, watching dozens of videos, NONE of which showed anything other than airliners or indeterminate points of light (which were also probably airliners from far away, heading towards the viewer).
This is all mass hysteria. I have come away from this with a newfound appreciation for the gullibility and stupidity of the average person. Kind of depressing, to be honest.
I did see a handful of what are probably actually drones, but just the usual hobby drones operating entirely within the confines of the law. It really doesn't help that most people don't understand the absolutely insane maneuvers that modern drones can perform, which drives even more claims of alien visitation.
@@hydra70 Yes and on that topic I think a handful of actual drone incidents (civilian or possibly military drones) probably were the initial triggers to all this panic. People (including uniformed personnel who should know better) just took the initial reports and ran with them.
Or maybe we're the morons for being logical about this.
Thanks for this, Mick. The minute I heard about the first "drone sighting," I was highly skeptical, and figured it wouldn't be long before you checked in with some sanity!
I wish Mick a healthy life. Hang on there buddy! We still need you to debunk craziness.
😂 he's going to crawl back under the rock he came from
I'm okay with ordinary people making these mistakes of identification, but elected officials going on TV both indulging in and spreading misinformation is something else.
And then the officials saying they have no evidence of aliens, or chinese drone swarms, or threats, are deemed the "liars" in some grand conspiracy to trick everyone in a "test" or whatever. It's depressing how backwards it all is. Promote panic and hysteria, youre fighting for truth. Promote logical and balanced analysis, you're deemed a part of the cover up.
The way this story has spreed reminds me of something called the Seattle Windshield Pitting Epidemic of 1954 in which car windshields were being "mysteriously" damaged. After a big hubbub and a lot of wild theories it turned out there wasn't really an uptick in windshields being damaged instead people were noticing and reporting damage they hadn't before because of reporting on it.
It's also like the Creepy Clown epidemic of 2016.
@@vanhouten64 Go back far enough and you'll find the Phantom Airship flap of 1896-97.
There actually was a clown epidemic. LOTS of stupid people out there with too much time.
Frequency illusion, yea.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_windshield_pitting_epidemic
Mass idiocy.
No, not idiocy, just humanity. Our brains work certain ways, and from time to time something triggers us and a group of us goes chasing after things that aren't there in a "flap." It used to happen a lot with UFOs, it happened a few years ago with Creepy Clowns. it happened back before the Wright Brothers with a "Phantom Airship" flap across the US.
Yes, it seems inexplicable to those not caught up in it, but we should all be aware that in the right circumstances, it can happen to any of us. The good news is, being aware of the phenomenon makes you less susceptible to falling into the next one. But there are no grounds for disparaging folks who are caught up in this one.
Thanks for the video Mick… would be interesting to see your take on why Wright Patterson was closed down for 8 hours because of “large UAS” thx again always classy in your responses
It's really journalistic laziness in the reports that label these things by default as drones. Before, it was UAPs, which at least had a modicum of integrity in that it simply called unknown things as unidentified...something that left room for it to be later CLARIFIED as having a pedestrian explanation. Calling these things "drones" (not even "suspected" drones) bothered me more than anything.
I'm standing by for the hundreds of news outlets to issue corrections once they take the time to see that these are all passenger, military or law enforcement manned craft. Not holding my breath though.
Media is the only entity at fault here. And UFO snake oil salesmen.
It's not laziness. They want views.
It's ironic that the term "UAP" carries with it the same stigma as "UFO," which wasn't the purpose of the term.
Lol self-correcting mistakes is rare enough in this society, let alone the “news media”. Hysteria always wins.
@JH-6g5 That is what people do: stigmatize people who behave in ways that make them uncomfortable. It doesn't matter what the term is. Creating a new term actually reinforces the stigma unless people's views/behavior also change. Sometimes they can even be counterproductive. For example, once upon a time there was this condition called "shell shock". Now, it is "post-traumatic stress disorder". Sure, most cases of it don't involve shells, and I get that scientific terms are generally neutral like that. But I'm not talking about scientific discourse lol. I'm talking about newspeak.
These people might actually believe their room light reflecting off of the corner of their window is a ghost. Thank you for being light in the sea of unnecessary ignorance and stupidity.
Wonderful explanation. I've always trusted you Mick. You've always come through.
Ah finally someone worth listing to chimes in on the situation
God Bless You Mick West!
If I had to choose, I will go with Jesus, but God is also fine.
Been waiting for this for a while now
what baffles me is that these planes have been circulating the night sky for a long time, what happened now that made everyone suddenly "see" them and freak out? are some of them new plane models with different light configurations or something, so they looked "weird"? or is the cause purely psychological?
Personally, I think it's some good old distraction and preparing people for what 47s admin wants to do (make drones illegal maybe, to prevent being monitored, maybe make tracking actual aircraft illegal too).
This just in: There's a lot of shit in the sky!!
How did cows get into space?
@@Fragmentofbone A physicist *really* wanted the results of the experiment.
@@Fragmentofbone Haven't you ever watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail?
It’s like humanity at large has lost all critical thinking skills. Why are so many people so quick to believe outlandish conspiracy theories? Theories that are debunked so easily, yet they continue to bury their heads in the sand and believe all conspiracies and connect them all together. This world is so depressing. I appreciate you Mick! Please don’t ever stop being a voice of reason
Pandemic really broke like solid 20-40% of people's brains (at least in US ) Nothing out of mundane can't just happen anymore. It needs to be turned in to some grand conspiracy or plot almost reflexively.
Hurricanes can't be just forces of nature in motion. No.. FEMA is creating and steering them. Wildfires..? How about some Jewish space lasers instead. Cargo ship collides with bridge.. Must be because captain was not white..probably maybe Joe Bidens America something something. They are eating pets!
It's borderline mass psychosis. Sad and sickening at the same time.
Poor critical thinking skills, total lack of media literacy, no capacity for discussing anything with nuance, etc. Everybody is just a reactionary now. There's so few reasonable people left.
The voice of reason, we love you Mick!
Thank you for bringing people down to earth
Some say that Mick is part of an operation to cover up all of the sightings to discredit them, as everything in the sky and under water is clearly aliens
Some despair at this, but not enough
Silver lining is that some may take an interest in our night sky, astronomy, safe and fun use of quadcopters, even aircraft identification. Maybe a few telescopes and binoculars for Christmas instead of phones, tablets and game consoles. 🎅🎁
Mommy, i want a potato for Christmas!
-but why?
So i can film the drones like everyone else 📷🎥
Awesome Mick, thanks for posting. Was waiting for your take.
Respect to Andy Kim for admitting he was mistaken and trying to educate the public. That takes integrity.
Once again, a voice of sanity!
I hang out in astro subreddits and we have people ALL THE TIME posting bad pics of what are pretty clearly planes asking for identification of this strange thing they saw (“it definitely wasn’t a plane”) and when told what they are showing and describing matches a plane exactly they’re all ‘no it wasn’t, i know what a plane looks like’ but realistically people are just so generally unobservant that the moment anyone tells them to look up into the sky they start discovering things hitherto unknown to Humanity
The "It Definitely Wasn't Whatever It Actually Was" statement is becoming a cliche in UFO reports. I am not sure ifit indicates some folks know, at least subconsciously, that what they saw was nothing exciting after all, or maybe they want to rule out the thing they recognize that it sort of looks like (and actually is). But it is a very real phenomenon now, and probably needs a clever name.
@@JMartJr It's becoming a cliche in so many aspects of our society nowadays, really. Just a straight up rejection of reality if it doesn't fit what people WANT to believe. There is so little actual care for the truth anymore.
@@JMartJr It's called cognitive dissonance.
This has all been completely hilarious from start to a very soon finish....Problem is is that a lot of people prefer to believe it's an intergalactic reconnaissance mission rather than a drone or commercial aircraft (again hilarious) either trolling or going about their daily business.
Thanks Mick. I’ve been telling folks the same thing.
Crazy how mass hysteria works, isn't it? And what flawed creatures humans are when it comes to reasoning.
It's actually crazy how easy mass amounts of people are brainwashed. It's a sad thing to have to experience.
Been waiting for Mick to weigh in. It feels like war of the worlds. Wonder who is broadcasting this in orson welles place…
I've heard some of the drones have Yoyodyne logos on them, too.
Almost every video I see is obviously an airliner or stars and planets. Hogan videoed the friggin constellation Orion, Mars, Sirius, and Procyon...
I fulle agree. Just a couple of days ago I saw a tabloid front page here on the other side of the Atlantic, and these "drones" were the headline, with a huge picture of one alledged sighting. And I burst out laughing alone in the line of a supermarket checkout because it was so obviously a planet, highly magnified and out of focus.
I'm a Brit. I'll have to check out some of the online tabloids! 😅
Since "he" won the election, I had to take a break from US news 😮💨 so I have no idea what's going on.
Panic and hysteria over misidentification of aircraft sounds about right 😅. There's ALWAYS something! 🙄
Thanks for being the only voice of reason left on TH-cam!
I can't believe how many people think that these sightings are drones. I really feel that stupidity is on the rise in America.
lol look who they elected as president again. I'm not surprised by their stupidity at all sadly.
It is. A hallmark of stupidity is a complete lack of curiosity and skepticism.
Please post the most compelling case to say it is not drones.
@@Zlist1994 US politics are irrelevant. It's just a theatre. This comment speaks more about you than about Americans though. You're not very smart are you.
@@charliewalker9443 This is exactly the stupidity they're referring to.
Mick West is about to get a shocker of a lifetime. 😂😂😂
Standing by... let us know when it happens... perhaps two more weeks...
So the word "probably" is enough to discard the footage of what looks like a plasma orb as an "out of focus image of Venus". I wonder where Venus would have actually appeared in the sky that night, any research on that, Mick?
Well, that answers the question I had as to why secret spy drones would be thoughtful enough to leave their navigation lights on for everyone's convenience...
Is the UFO community so dry and bored that now they are excited just for human-made, earth-borne aircraft?
There's still the conspiracy overlap with super secret military technology that TOTALLY couldn't have been developed by humans.
They are excited about almost every light in the sky.
I don't usually rely on conspiracy theories, but it wouldn't surprise me if UFO communities are being targeted by political/geo-political bot campaigns. The pure stupidity in some of reddit's UFO subs is off the charts.
What are odds that a 'threatening drone', say, operated by China, would fly around at night with bright lights flashing saying 'look at me! I'm in clear view!'? That would be the equivalent of a bank robber with his/her name and address written on the front of their ski-mask. :)
word of advice to our 'special' UFO enthusiasts: use your brain.
Thank you Mick!
Don't forget the Iranian war ship deploying the drones.
The ones that are parked off the coast of Iran? They have quite some range!
That reminds me of the "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq.
I had wondered why the drones, apparently doing reconnaissance on infrastructure air bases etc., were flying around at night with their lights on. With lights off, they would almost never be noticed. Makes much more sense to me that the lights being seen aren't drones.
I tried to explain this to some people on reddit and discord. They just said they are trying to scare us.
I think people noticing a drone without lights on is much more scary than one with big bright lights you can see from miles away.
But the thing is there are 55 pound drones you can buy that do have lights on them that people can fly around. That would also explain this.
"Lawmakers demand answers!" LOL. These "lawmakers" seem to not know anyone with the money can buy these "mysterious lights in the sky."
Yeah, let’s NOT shoot down passengers planes please. Do I have to fear of being confused for a hostile drone every time I board an airplane??
But the president elect said,......
Thank you very much Mick! I hope your video goes viral. It needs to.
To say that prankster hobbyists drove the New York airport and Wright Patterson base (the fu**ing Air Force, they know how to recognize an aircraft) into hysteria until they closed the airspace is madness. There's clearly more to it than just hysteria
A superbly conceived presentation: all the important facts and none of the insults. Excellent!
I love the doublethink that I'm seeing in the UFO subreddit. People will simultaneously say "If it's just mass hysteria, then why is the government investigating it?" Then when the government says "nah, it's just planes" they immediately say that it's gaslighting. Then the worst part is that they will continue to use the argument that it can't be hysteria because the government is investigating it.
You're blaming folks for wanting answers because the gov doesn't even know wtf it is 😂😂😂😂😂dude you make no sense. Still doesn't solve wtf these are coming from. This wasn't happening last year
@@KevinDurant-.c The government has said what it is: airplanes. You just didn't like that answer.
As a drone pilot it's disappointing and unsettling to hear the inflated fear of drones driven by ignorance and prejudice. As hobbyists, the vast majority take great pains to ensure safe operation away from people and restricted places. This is true X10 for professionals whose reputation and livelihood depend on being safe and reliable. The future is full of drones, so people really need to get used to them. At the same time, privacy, safety and peace of mind need to be respected.
It's been a while since we had a real good, old-fashined mass hysteria! Guess it was time.
I am the son of a career USAF NCO, grew up in the 60's on busy military air bases. Watched, fascinated, all sorts of aircraft in all sorts of weather at all times of the day or night both far away and as they approached and landed. (As a kid I saw an E-3 AWACS when they were new, rolling out for takeoff through the fog on the runway...big radome illuminated by the other flashing navigation lights... talk about a dead-ringer for a UFO!) I'm also a space/aviation and astronomy enthusiast and constantly have my eyes and head in the sky. I live on the East Coast too not too far from Patuxent Naval Air Station... "Area 51 of the East", though it's probably not quite as busy with the "spooky" ( i.e. classified/exotic/experimental/developmental) stuff as the one in Nevada. This area is also one of the busiest North/South highways-in-the sky in the world. All that wordy prolog to my point is just to say: I STILL get fooled by and puzzled by things I see in the sky. They can look new and unique, even though they always turn out to be prosaic and mundane objects doing pretty boring stuff, or that distant light or object that is undefinable because of it's distance and lack of information, not it's nature.
THANK YOU for casting oil on the water again! I suspected as much when one of the witnesses was shown to be facing LA Guardia Airport!!
"There's a series of objects with clearly fixed wings and flashing lights procedurally going across the sky near the airport. These are definitely NOT planes!"
What's that satellite historic map tool you're using at 0:36 ?
Sitrec. I wrote it myself. www.metabunk.org/sitrec/
3:22 - "But right now, It seems to be ALL misidentification."
every single video is an aircraft. What are the media doing!?
Plus, consider its the first time in like 20 years that people are actually looking up at the sky instead of down at their phones.
lol, you mean people are looking down at their phones at videos other people took while those other people looked up at their phones pointed at the sky. ;)
😂😂😂 so true
Probably most learned about from their phones. And the few that looked up are ignorant Muppets.
Most people should stay on their phones and quit interacting with the real world.
Mass hysteria, it's almost like we're living in a parallel with some folks that are living in the Bronze Age who have never seen an airplane, helicopter or a drone in their entire lives. It's pathetic.
Thank you. I do fault the government to some degree, though. Some of their answers given to reporters' questions seem almost intended to provoke a suspicious reaction. There's a difference between saying "there are no confirmed instances of drones in restricted airspace" and calmly explaining how they have gone about identifying that nearly all sightings were manned aircraft, like you did here in only 3 minutes and 42 seconds.
They've got a million people screeching at them, giving conflicting information and demanding immediate answers without allowing time to sift through it all. They also aren't allowed to say "it's all planes, you're all dumbasses, and this is a mass hysteria event" because then people will screech at them even more. John Kirby's statement was as close to that as he could reasonably get away with, and the UFOlogists are absolutely seething about it.
Somebody already showed that these are military drones that have fixed wings when required
How has this happened in 2024? We're not as clever as we like to think
Next year, the craze will be people reporting large metal tubes with wings soaring through the sky. What could they be? Why are they so loud? Why do some of them leave trails behind? What could it mean?!
Ah thank Gawd for a bit of sanity. Thanks Mick for your logic and analysis against the absurdity of TH-cam Idiocracy and a mass hysteria that confuses aeroplanes for aliens.
People don’t spend time looking at the sky much any more. They are told something weird is going on, they look at the sky and misidentify stuff that was there everyday.
Living under the flyway of the most heavily trafficked area for military and civilian aircraft in Nevada, I’ve become pretty good at identifying aircraft. I did suspect that some of them were drones, as they were not identified by the online tools. However, I think unmanned military aircraft has to be over in the restricted airspace and not over residential areas.
Great video about a lot of the lay person sightings making the rounds on the internet these days, but what you completely failed to address is what about Langley Air Force Base and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and Pendleton and many other military airfields that were closed down recently due to uas activity. Langley has been overflown every December for the last 3 years right around the same time. That is concerning and the government completely ignored it in their statements.
When the world needed him most, Mick West returned!
Thanks for this Mick. You are a credit to your species.
It's a bird! It's a plane... yep, it's a plane!
😂😂👍
I really appreciate your voice of reason. I find it so much more satisfying than indulging in speculation (or fantasy).
Thank you Mick! I've been telling my wife this exact same thing for days now. People suddenly looking up that have never looked up before, and seeing something that is totally unrecognized by them at night, so they automatically jump to the absolutely wrong conclusion due to recent "news".
Although, with that being said, I'm not sure if the incursion over the Picatinny Arsenal airspace would qualify as NOT being of national security impact. Just sayin'.
Mick West: "I'm not saying it isn't aliens, but..."
A splash of reality. We could all use that right now. Thanks.
Hi Mick. Thanks For The Reality Check As Always!. I Think People Are Generally Looking Into The Sky More!🤷 & Like Any New Subject We Need Some Education As To What We Are Looking At!. Tony, Suffolk UK
How big is a large drone, as opposed to a small drone?
Are you talking hobbyist / professional / industrial or military drones? Because they can range from centimetre to decametres.
It's bigger than a medium sized drone but smaller than a very large drone.
@@n-steam Not sure. Mick West is the one saying "large drone" (3 times in this video) without defining what that is precisely.
Thank you Mick for being the voice of reason with this. I watched a United States Representative call for "shooting these things down" on cable news while a video that was very obviously a Southwest Airlines 737 with the tail colors and the lettering plainly visible played on the opposite side of the screen from him, captioned as "Drone captured flying over New Jersey." This is pure lunacy at this point.
What browsing reddit does to a man
"I watched a United States Representative call for "shooting these things down" on cable news while a video that was very obviously a Southwest Airlines 737 with the tail colors and the lettering plainly visible played on the opposite side of the screen from him, captioned as "Drone captured flying over New Jersey."
Can you share a link to that?
I’m so frustrated. I live in New Jersey and every night for weeks. I have drones flying over my house. I have so much footage. They take the same flight pattern and continue to take that flight pattern in intervals of three minutes and they do this for hours. I can’t believethat this is being dismissed in the way that it is ..please come see for yourself.
Upload your video, please
"Mostly yes". What about the the not most ones.
The hysterical crowd rules the world Thanks for being the voice of reason
This is very simple. Rumors got started, so people got curious and started looking up more than usual. Probably more than ever. So they are seeing things they've never seen, and they're already suggestible. And word got bigger, so more people started looking up, and they start to see things they don't understand or want to be something they're not. The only failing is the media for not calling reality what it is.
What the phone has done to people is beyond irresponsible.
To be strictly fair, "the media" is just people, and they are as likely to get caught up in these things as anybody else.
Nice video.
Boring comment, so bland, try better next time!
True words of common sense and logic 👍 Are people just acting stupid or is it the first time they look up at the night sky?
It's like they've never gone outside at night and looked up.
Been saying this since I first heard about them. I've been waiting for this video since then.
It's not mass hysteria, it's a psyop
Why would you use flashing lights if your trying to hide?
Keep fighting the good fight, Mick
So why is there a sudden increase in known aircraft over coastal New Jersey? The residents are obviously seeing something which is significantly outside their normal daily experiences. They're used to seeing airplanes, sure, but clearly they're seeing way, way more planes now which is part of why they're taking notice.
Why the sudden, dramatic, marked increase in air traffic?
Have you considered that what is really happening is an increase in numbers of people who are deliberately looking at the night sky in hopes of seeing something extraordinary?
The vast, vast majority of people do not spend every moment of their lives being aware of everything around them. They are typically not looking up at the sky at night and trying to interpret the lights that they're seeing. But of course when a bunch of stories going around online and on the news and whatnot start talking about 'scary' lights in the sky, guess what? They actually do start looking up and trying to interpret what they're seeing, except they have no real basis of knowledge or understanding of these things because they've never really done this before. Combined with the Power of Suggestion, their interpretations tend to simply be awful and terribly unreliable. Even the god damn governor of New Jersey misinterpreted the constellation of Orion as drones, ffs.
@@darklight2.1 this includes state police calling in over the radio literally dozens of low-flying small aircraft approaching land from the ocean in one sitting. Obviously not standard air traffic, and obviously not an untrained observer.
@@HisBortness You ignored the point.
What makes you think that state police aren't subject to the same increase in observation of the sky?
"Trained observers"? Are they sky cops now? What leads you to believe that state police driving around in their cruisers are one bit more familiar with what happens in the night sky than anyone else?
You are really reaching.
No they aren't, their consciousness is being nurtured by the media. And even then, the surmise that it's aliens is braindead. It's amazing how people are so willfully taken in by the media they consume.
Tons of things are happening in the world that you are not aware of on a daily basis. If some media apparatus starts focusing on it, people are going to start acting like it's happening more often. This is nothing new, we understand this phenomenon. People parse reality largely through the media especially nowadays. Media is a double edged sword.
Good work on clarifying these reports - any idea what closed down Wright Patterson a couple of days ago? Visual from incoming pilots and nothing spotted from ATC at WP. Removing at remarkable speeds according to pilots - who were told live on air that the base was closed.
Was the closure of Wright Pat not because of "heavy UAS movement on the base” ?