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John Lawton Jeffcoat III's avatar

The ancient Romans and Greeks often discovered fossilized bones of giant extinct lizard creatures (perhaps inspiring the ancient myth of "dragons"), but it was not until two millennia later that the English coined the term "dinosaur" and pursued formal study of paleontology.

Now, regarding fleets of massive flying drones the size of family sedans appearing regularly above US military bases and government buildings, and moving in sophisticated synchronized hover patterns, and even illuminating themselves rather than attempting to be stealthy, let's consider three explanations...

1.) They are controlled by space aliens from another planet...

- - Can't we all agree that this is laughably absurd and there is zero chance of this being true?

2.) They are controlled by "aliens" from our own planet, such as Russians or Chinese...

- - Then, how is it that the mighty US military is unable to shoot one down, or capture one, or simply track one (using ground based or satellite based observation) to where it inevitably must land to be collected and re-charged for subsequent use after its brief flight? It is silly to say we are unable to perform such an easy task, especially given many regular opportunities to do so.

3.) The are controlled by the US military or a US military contractor.

- - There is your answer. The reason why "they" refuse to admit or explain this, and "they" feign ignorance, is likely because these drones are conducting a type of domestic surveillance that, if publicaly know, would cause panic.

As a hypothetical example; they might be scanning and sniffing for radiation signatures every night, if the government believes there is credible threat of some faction trying to smuggle in a nuclear "suitcase bomb" or "dirty bomb". (There are of course other plausible scenarios in which nightly surveillance would be warranted, but public discussion regarding its explanation would be counterproductive or panic inspiring at this point in time).

The simplest answer is often the correct answer.

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RedBaron's avatar

Awesome story about the 9-year-old! Good for her and her Dad.

As for the drones, our government keeps us in the dark about much of their capabilities. When it recently turned out the US had twice the military personnel in Syria than they had admitted, do you think for a minute, if they were involved with these drones, they would tell us? If it was from another country, would they tell us or even know? Remember the Chinese balloon fiasco? This was a slow-moving balloon and they waited until it went all the way over the country before downing it. I feel very strongly these are definitely man-made. Remember Russia and China strongly emphasis and reward scientists and engineers. Both countries have deployed hypersonic missiles while we play catch up. Who is to say one of these countries hasn't had a large scientific breath through we know nothing about?

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