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Drones swarm Northern Colorado
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Looks like senator Cory Gardner has got the ball rolling....
FAA probing Colo. drone sightings, proposes new ID rule
Multiple divisions of the Federal Aviation Administration and other federal agencies are investigating the mysterious drones that have been flying over eastern Colorado in recent weeks, and the FAA has proposed a rule that would require nearly all drones to be remotely identifiable.www.koaa.com
Our Governor “Pickle Puffer Pollis” is now taking credit for the investigation
The government has to know. I can't imagine they would find it okay for unknown drones to be flying over ICBM silos.
Most people can't judge the altitude or distance of a Cessna 172 from them, let alone a UAS that is 1/4 to 1/20th the size.
supercorndogs, I couldn't find anything to link to but I have been seeing them on KWGN Channel 2 News the most. They usually have several during the news but when I checked their site I couldn't locate the clips.
They are cell phone videos so not of the highest quality but do show them well enough that you know they aren't airplanes.
According to the News they need a FAA permit to operate at night and aren't to be any higher than 500 ft. so they don't interfere with airplanes.
They are cell phone videos so not of the highest quality but do show them well enough that you know they aren't airplanes.
According to the News they need a FAA permit to operate at night and aren't to be any higher than 500 ft. so they don't interfere with airplanes.
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Hehe, I'm an asshole by nature, but I'll tell you last night I watched one for 20 to 30 minutes with my binocs. I'm also a pilot if that holds any weight in this discussion. I'm as sure as I can be that last nights drone was above 500' and moving at about 40 mph from west to east. It also had red and green lights and flashing strobe. I lost sight of it what I think would be about 5 miles west of Eckley. The sound is like a buzzing chopper as best as I can describe. I dont know who it is nor care really, but they drive my dog nutz. I don't do facebook, but am told there are 3 accounts following this. Maybe Logan cnty. Sherriff's page has something, as he was told to chill out by the FAA.?
I dunno.......
I've heard a Phantom 4 at 1000' AGL....a faint swarm of angry bees. I could in fact hear it MUCH better than I could see it (daytime).
A night on the plains: Chasing the mysterious drones of eastern Colorado
This is life on Colorado’s Eastern Plains right now — ground zero for one of the strangest phenomenon in the United States.
www.denverpost.com
Just skimmed over the article, but looks informative.
We ran a phantom 4 and now an Inspire 1, pig hunting for the last two years.
Wooded fields, no ambient outside noises, quiet quiet quiet.... (like Colorado boonies)
Could hear both at 500 agl, no problem. Big ass mosquito buzz.
Ran coyotes off b4 it got within 500 yards at 500agl.
Ran deer off around 300 yards.
We could hear it 300 yards out at 500agl.
Now, daylight, near the highway, or with other city noises, it pretty much has to be overhead to hear it about 10% of the time at 500agl.
JMHE, others mileage may vary. No problem.
Re post 212 states judging sizes, I agree 1000%, nfw to say with certainty size at distance.
And, I have been involved with 4 and 5' search and rescue drones, with 45 minute air times, they are much louder than the inspire 1.
I couldnt tell the size when it was flying, any more than I can tell with my own drone.
10+ drones is a f'ton of $ if you have NV or thermal.... the 5'SAR drone was 55k with day, nv, and thermal capability. Glad we had a grant to buy it....
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Maybe take up a collection for a drone jammer or two???
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A night on the plains: Chasing the mysterious drones of eastern Colorado
This is life on Colorado’s Eastern Plains right now — ground zero for one of the strangest phenomenon in the United States.
Just skimmed over the article, but looks informative.
That picture of the horizon filled with wind turbines is more disturbing than a dozen drones coming/going.
Yeah! Environment friendly! (my ass)
From the Neighbor app today. This is pretty close to me and is NOT BFE, but part of the metro NE Denver area suburb of Thornton.
Although by BS meter is a bit active.
Although by BS meter is a bit active.
Is there anyone who believes that NORAD doesn’t know exactly from where these take off and where they land? Gov playing dumb is total bullshit. They think we’re really stupid.
Do you really think NORAD would say anything ever regarding their radar capabilities.
Report of three out by Eads, CO. The guy said they were big.
Report of three out by Eads, CO. The guy said they were big.
Wind generation is horrible when it comes to the environment.That picture of the horizon filled with wind turbines is more disturbing than a dozen drones coming/going.
Yeah! Environment friendly! (my ass)
They kill 10's of thousands of birds a year and their noise is horrendous
That picture of the horizon filled with wind turbines is more disturbing than a dozen drones coming/going.
Yeah! Environment friendly! (my ass)
And paid for buy the Colorado taxpayer. Its pretty sad. I hear people all the time say, "wind is cheap, we need more wind energy." We pay to build them and are forced to buy their high cost energy. Must make xxx amount of "renewable energy" per town. Thanks Hickenlooper, you sure did exactly what you said you would not. Glad all the foreigners in my state have their heads too far up their asses to understand what is happening.
Fee Fee Hickenlooper stuck it to Colorado any way he could; everything was a "fee" because raising taxes would have required a vote and because he would have had to return left over funds to the taxpayer at the end of the year under TABOR.
Really got us good when he combined game and fish with the bankrupt state parks system. A system that went around stole our public land then charged a fee to enter. Now that all the license fees I pay support, I still have to pay a fee to enter. Fuck that. I will not pay to enter my own public land. It was better managed by the Army Core of engineers, and game and fish, back when it was ran by wildlife biologists.
200 and some million in pot taxes collected, I still have to air down the tires on my truck just so I won’t smack my head on the roof because the roads are still so F-ed up, and they won’t drop a dime to fix em. Then they say “well we need to repeal TABOR if you want the roads fixed”.
Enviro terrorist latest target around here - MA - is coal trains.
All the coal fired/nuke plants in state have been shuttered.
NH still burns coal - it gets cold around here.
Other day they built a scaffold across train track to block a train passing through MA to get to NH.
Local towns, including mine, are banning new construction from install gas or oil fired energy.
Unsure how they expect people to live in the northern latitudes or if they understand the electricity used to replace it will further burden an overloaded system and that the plant producing it has to be burning something...
Idiots.
and worst of all planned by people that are smarter than that and are pushing this for reasons other than a clean environment.
And Im wondering who pays for the clean up when the foundations and masts are at the end of their service life........
Not stupid, ignorant. ...And sometimes the public would rather remain so, or it is the most prudent course of action.
Noise?
LOL
Indiana is full of them. Some are as close as 50 yards to the road. Can't hear shit that far away, watching them turn.
Wind power is a joke, but you don't have to make up shit about it.
You need to move 3 - 4 states west. Sanity still prevails around here.
As far as the protesters...……….skip to 00:50
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@308pirate - I dont know a lot about the noise as I dont live by them. I have read about it.
And, people I do know (even “alternative energy” advocate liberals) speak of a low level hum that they emit. Linked to chronic migraines and other issues.
IIRC a town in MA or ME tore some down that were put up in town due to the issues. The towns people demanded it and were able to win.
ETA: just checked, looks like shut down and wont operate, cost millions to removed them. On cape code. Falmouth.
Just use nuke powers and we can store the waste in a big cavern Nancy Pelosi has. You choose which cavern......
Back to the drones. Lets get to shootin, umkay?
And, people I do know (even “alternative energy” advocate liberals) speak of a low level hum that they emit. Linked to chronic migraines and other issues.
IIRC a town in MA or ME tore some down that were put up in town due to the issues. The towns people demanded it and were able to win.
ETA: just checked, looks like shut down and wont operate, cost millions to removed them. On cape code. Falmouth.
Just use nuke powers and we can store the waste in a big cavern Nancy Pelosi has. You choose which cavern......
Back to the drones. Lets get to shootin, umkay?
Pretty sure that was MA....
Falmouth, MA if I remember right.
Understand Falmouth is not your "average" population as Mike Bloomberg would define it.
Horse power can avoid the same annoyances we must live with.
Edit - Looked it up. Should have known Obama had his fingerprints on it - American Investment and Recovery Act - town will be on the hook to repay the funds to install them.
Falmouth Town Meeting Wind Turbine Removal Set To Backfire
One of your neighbors posted in Neighbor News. Click through to read what they have to say. (The views expressed in this post are the author’s own.)
patch.com
Falmouth Gives Up On Turbines Needs 2.5 Million To Remove
One of your neighbors posted in Neighbor News. Click through to read what they have to say. (The views expressed in this post are the author’s own.)
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About two years ago I was out on my side porch well after dark.
I noticed three BIG aircraft moving along the treeline about a mile West of the house. Low and slow with about two flashing lights on each - front and rear.
No sound. Nothing. I could hear crickets, but not them.
They followed the treeline in about the same direction that a small rural highway follows and they went out of sight.
I watched and waited, because the military base turned foreign security services training facility is very nearby, and my house lies between where they come from and where they went. I knew they'd be coming back. These are always local short flights.
In a few minutes they followed the treeline going back. Still all but dark and still quiet.
I flipped on a very powerful JetBeam that I use to scan for deer and other things and aimed it their way. Within seconds I could hear helicopters where none were heard before. "Ha ha, I got you!", I proudly exclaimed.
Another second and the lead bird turned on a light coming back my way.
The open area around my house is about ten acres, and it all turned instantly into near blinding daylight.
I turned off my light and waved, and took my curious ass back into the house.
I've seen them a couple of times since then. I don't fuck with them anymore.
I noticed three BIG aircraft moving along the treeline about a mile West of the house. Low and slow with about two flashing lights on each - front and rear.
No sound. Nothing. I could hear crickets, but not them.
They followed the treeline in about the same direction that a small rural highway follows and they went out of sight.
I watched and waited, because the military base turned foreign security services training facility is very nearby, and my house lies between where they come from and where they went. I knew they'd be coming back. These are always local short flights.
In a few minutes they followed the treeline going back. Still all but dark and still quiet.
I flipped on a very powerful JetBeam that I use to scan for deer and other things and aimed it their way. Within seconds I could hear helicopters where none were heard before. "Ha ha, I got you!", I proudly exclaimed.
Another second and the lead bird turned on a light coming back my way.
The open area around my house is about ten acres, and it all turned instantly into near blinding daylight.
I turned off my light and waved, and took my curious ass back into the house.
I've seen them a couple of times since then. I don't fuck with them anymore.
Year and a half ago, took off out of PDX in the evening headed toward SoCal and got lased while turning southbound. We reported the laser, and a jumpseater who lived in PDX identified the neighborhood down to the street and block.
We landed and on taxi-in the controller told us Portland PD wanted us to call them regarding our illumination event. My Captain calls the provided number and the guy on the other end of the line asked us for lat/longs.
Uh, we were climbing through 5000' in a turn and kinda busy, was the street and block not specific enough for you?
Family at a BBQ was surprised to learn their kid has a powerful laser when PO showed up within minutes of report to acertain who was lasing AC.
It happens for real.
Kind of like posting on 4Chan that you kill Trump supporters thinking "They will never identify me...."
It happens for real.
Kind of like posting on 4Chan that you kill Trump supporters thinking "They will never identify me...."
No doubt. She was the hottest ginger around for a while...
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Moving anywhere else is no longer a solution, the Dimwittocrats have turned their states into such hellholes that even their most fervent believers now don't see any other solution but to migrate from the likes of California to other states like Idaho, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Texas, ... What they used to refer to as flyover country, they are now snapping up because our real estate even with the speedily rising prices they cause is: "such a bargain." Moving to other states only accelerates their take over because it thins out the population of those capable of reasoning and comprehension. Another thing they do as soon as they have even a sliver of a majority anywhere is to raise property taxes to evict the remainder of those who have lived in that region before they rushed in like locusts, and to finance all the nonsensical social programs they are accustomed to from California which turned it into what it is now.
Shouldn't they be testing that stuff on a military reservation like Ft. Carson, or Pinon Canyon, or in White Sands, NM but not over civilian areas, regardless how sparsely populated, especially when they hover over people's homes? Sounds like some contractor is bucking for law suits and it explains why the Air Force "isn't tracking anything on RADAR."
Interesting thread.
Regardless of who is running the drone activity, if it is nefarious why would they be running with nav lights on? Why beg for attention when it is so easy to run blacked out?
Anybody with the tech and budget to run that quantity of drones in an organized manner could easily minimize their ability to be detected.
Just thinking this is too blatant and doesn't fit the idea of bad guy/conspiracy.
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Regardless of who is running the drone activity, if it is nefarious why would they be running with nav lights on? Why beg for attention when it is so easy to run blacked out?
Anybody with the tech and budget to run that quantity of drones in an organized manner could easily minimize their ability to be detected.
Just thinking this is too blatant and doesn't fit the idea of bad guy/conspiracy.
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Again speculation here... If it is a Defense Contractor doing testing as they claim (speculate), then that tells me that the AF has systems (anti-drone) in place at the missile silos in NE Colorado, that's why it's being tested there? Otherwise, it would make more sense to test the systems in places like White Sands or Nevada test range where there would be less human contact.
Also, Radar has limits. Curvature of the earth is a big obstacle to long range Radar, and at close distances, small targets that are close to the ground are hard to track and aquire unless you a have specific systems like mmWave radar, which is limited to short range, and typically used like in attack helicopters.
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In any case if it is a military contractor who did not come forward when the question was publicly posed there won't be any cooperation from FAA, Air Force, Army, or Colorado National Guard in regards to tracking with any form of RADAR be it Apaches, Artillery RADAR, Ground RADAR, or Air Defense Artillery RADAR; DARPA doesn't like to run public educational programs for obvious reasons. Hopefully they'll be done soon so we won't get the loons that beleaguer Roswell, NM and Rachel, NV turning Colorado into their primary hang out because of the added weed attraction.
