Post by MCDemuth on Jan 5, 2020 4:37:28 GMT
"They mostly come at night. Mostly."
LOL!
Attack Of The Drones?
Colorado Gov. Vows To 'Get To The Bottom' Of Mystery Nighttime Drone Swarms
01/03/2020 02:41 pm ET
DENVER ― Authorities don't know where the drones come from, where they go or what they're doing.
Swarms of drones have been spotted flying across eastern Colorado and western Nebraska since mid-December, typically between the hours of sunset and midnight.
They often fly in groups and travel along seemingly coordinated, grid-like paths. On the night of Dec. 20, the Phillips County Sheriff’s Office, along with its counterparts in neighboring Yuma County, tracked more than 16 such drones.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) pledged Thursday to “get to the bottom” of the mystery flights and ensure they aren’t putting people or property at risk. “It’s certain they have caused a bit of a stir,” he said in a statement.
Polis said he has asked the Department of Public Safety to investigate, but that he hasn’t yet received “any substantial information” beyond publicly available reports.
That dovetails with just about every other government agency that might be behind the flights. They all told The Denver Post they don’t know who’s responsible. That list includes the Federal Aviation Administration, the U.S. Air Force, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Department of Defense, the Environmental Protection Agency, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, the Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Army Forces Command, Fort Carson, Intel, Amazon and the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Private drone companies operating in the area have also denied any responsibility.
FAA regulations require certified and commercial drone pilots to register their drones, maintain line-of-sight on the drone while in flight, fly at or below 400 feet, fly only during the daytime and never over third parties, and prohibit pilots from operating more than one drone at a time.
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Morgan County Sheriff Dave Martin, meanwhile, is urging residents not to commit a felony in an attempt to shoot a drone down. (In 2013, the city of Deer Trail considered issuing drone-hunting permits, but ultimately rejected the notion after a less-than-enthusiastic response from the FAA.)
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www.huffpost.com/entry/colorado-drone-flight-mystery-polis_n_5e0f5b25e4b0b2520d208baa