What Are Those Mysterious Drones Doing in Colorado?

[jpak]

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a30346830/mysterious-drone-swarms-colorado/

A series of nighttime visitations by a mysterious drone swarm has residents of northeastern Colorado baffled. As many as 17 drones appear to be running deliberate search patterns, as if training to look for something. And nobody knows exactly who is controlling the drones, as both the Army and Air Force deny the swarm belongs to them.

An article in the Denver Post says residents of Phillips and Yuma counties have repeatedly seen up to 17 drones at a time, at night between the hours of 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. The drones have wingspans of up to five or six feet, fly between 30 and 40 miles per hour, and are equipped with red, white, green, and blue navigation lights. The swarm is apparently flying 25-mile grid squares, with drones flying one square and then another.

The drones are unarmed, and they don't appear threatening. The FAA and Army both deny the drones are theirs, while the Pentagon and Air Force had not returned the Post’s requests for comment by publication. Local law enforcement is aware of the swarm but state that typically, drone operators coordinate with them in order to avoid unnecessary confusion.

The big question, then, is who is operating them. A large swarm of drones is expensive to develop and operate, and the craft appear to be following a sophisticated set of algorithms. Most military bases are in central Colorado, too far for smaller drones like these to operate from. The drones fly over terrain as varied as towns or empty fields. It’s a gutsy move to fly drones over private property; in case one of them goes down, the operator would have to approach the property owner to retrieve their drone.

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[SharonAnn]

1. Oil and gas exploration?

[hlthe2b]

4. Likely... I know a lot of property owners are po'd. We do not have sufficient protections

for drones, IMO. Yet, heaven help the irate person seeing one obviously low enough to photograph inside their home. Shooting one down is a Federal crime.

[Kali]

5. or water

LIDAR mapping for impending water wars

[2naSalit]

16. Sounds like

a systematic survey operation. They probably do it at night so that most won't see them..? I would be one of those who would seriously contemplate shooting one down to see who shows up.

[Sneederbunk]

2. Looking for dirt on Biden.

[crickets]

9. Best laugh of the day so far!

Thank you for that.

[underpants]

11. LOL

[Takket]

3. they have to take off from somewhere... how hard can this be to figure out?

[jpak]

10. Where?

The Deep State

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. Could be FBI or DHS.

[Thyla]

7. Here in Spain

They use drones to check if people have built extensions or sheds without permission so they can send you a tax bill and a fine.

But they do that in daylight not at night and maybe more importantly most other countries actually have some semblance of civil rights to forbid such an intrusion.

[SWBTATTReg]

8. I can't imagine that no one is aware of where these drones are taking off from...

Phillips and Yuma Counties in Colorado. Seems rather expensive to spend the resources (operators, gas (or electrically charged?), etc.) for up to 17 drones. Perhaps involved in training exercises for a mass operation of some kind overseas, which would make sense being that this is a rather new technology (drones themselves) and coordinating them all together in a group is probably a high priority, although doing it in a public space doesn't seem to make sense. Other thing is that perhaps they're looking for something that perhaps was lost in these 2 counties?

Interesting.

[underpants]

12. Droning on and on and on

[underpants]

13. Hoping for a contact high? Amazon weed delivery?

MS-13 Air Force?

[HAB911]

14. The FAA knows who it is

[fleur-de-lisa]

17. Exactly. There is no way the FAA doesn't know what's going on.

[bluedigger]

15. Space Force!

Bunch of brand new generals (admirals? What's the command structure there?) in DC with nothing else to do all day...