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Matt B said:
That doesn’t look like NC to me. Look at the sweatshirt. More like Kentucky. Somewhere north of Lexington most likely.
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Matt, c’mon now! That’s a Cincinnati Bengals hoodie that guy is wearing. That’s why I noted the Joe Burrow reference. Not a whole lotta good pro football players in the Tarheel state. That is until Belichick starts drafting his UNC team for next year.
Granted, the Cincy Airport is across the river in Covington KY but look at the shooter. Trimmed beard, clean hands, nice glasses, AR, not a flintlock, no Tats on neck face or arms…….Kentucky?……not a chance in hell. That fella looks like he’s straight out of the Triangle Area with about 5 cord of store bought wood for the winter. Wait one…………

THIS JUST IN FROM NJ. CAUSE OF THE DRONES HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED.

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VAGABOND said:
Matt, c’mon now! That’s a Cincinnati Bengals hoodie that guy is wearing. That’s why I noted the Joe Burrow reference. Not a whole lotta good pro football players in the Tarheel state. That is until Belichick starts drafting his UNC team for next year.
Granted, the Cincy Airport is across the river in Covington KY but look at the shooter. Trimmed beard, clean hands, nice glasses, AR, not a flintlock, no Tats on neck face or arms…….Kentucky?……not a chance in hell. That fella looks like he’s straight out of the Triangle Area with about 5 cord of store bought wood for the winter. Wait one…………

THIS JUST IN FROM NJ. CAUSE OF THE DRONES HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED.

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Ha! I grew up in the Carolinas so I don’t know why I forgot to expect people to forget that the Panthers exist and that Charlotte is part of North Carolina.
 
Brian Miller said:
Even a small unlicensed consumer grade drone hovering outside Your house wouldn't give You any cause for concern?



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But I do find the fact that these sightings are using FAA required anti-collision lights is most curious. :unsure:
I would think that pilots with hostile intentions would NOT use lights, and would strike while they have the element of surprise rather than thrusting a stick into a Murder Hornets nest to cause the furor it already has that could and probably will get new domestic drone technologies and coutermeasures deployed in the US.

Plus the fact that local and state agencies are crying out for answers, but there is a general lack of DoD concern even though they (say they) don't have any answers...:unsure:

Is this a Sputnik style funding campaign that had DoD and NASA rolling in cash for two decades?

Or some kind of a "red code" exercise to test current drone detection and countermeasures? (fun times at "Red Flag")
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No, a drone outside my windows I do take seriously, just like anyone else would.

Keep your nose out my windows and respect my family’s privacy, and that of my neighbors. Its nobodys business what we do inside our homes.

Yes I'd be concerned for my neighbors if it happened to them too, whether I like them or not.

What I find capricious is the expectation that all drones fit into a size format no larger than a beach ball, when they run anywhere from the size of a praying mantis up to that of a small airliner. We've had drones since WW2 when both the Brits and us used unmanned, TV guided bombers to attack dams and other targets late in the war. So," it's the size of an SUV!", just tells me people aren't paying attention.

Right now our laws concerning these things need a serious revision, including the FAA regs branding them as "aircraft".

Any drone owner here will tell you, you have to have an FAA license to fly one over 250 grams, and they MUST have nav lights.

Suspiciously, some of the reports have stated that when law enforcement aircraft pursue or approach, many of them turn off their lights and evade. That says a lot of different things, including that the operators are up to no good, the operators do not want visual verification of size and type, etc.

And yes there are all kinds of safety concerns from bringing them down. When to do that, and doing it safely is the key. We haven't gotten there yet because our government doesn't want to have the hard conversations needed to effect the changes needed.
 
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VAGABOND said:
Joe Burrow fan obviously, but you have to love someone.

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North Carolina has this one right... the simple solution is almost always the best.. Complexity is just a way of overlooking the truth because you don't like it.. file a flight plan or lose your drone.. ohh and if it lingers over a private property? Obliterate it.
 
RCF said:
Until it is disabled or turned off...
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Yeah but...
The FAA can impose civil penalties of up to $27,500 for not having a Remote ID module. The FAA can also take other enforcement actions, including:

  • Suspending or revoking a drone operator's pilot certificate
  • Imposing fines of up to $75,000 per violation for unsafe or unauthorized drone operations.
I have no idea what these sightings are but before it's done the FAA will most likely step up enforcement which has been nil at this point.
I fly larger RC planes and the clubs I belong to are qualified as FRIA zones so exempt from the RID requirements.
 
The comments are a hoot. The video itself is a bit of a joke, a lot of "could be"s and "might be"s, no actual science - kept talking about "known properties" of plasmoids, which at the same time are completely mysterious. I looked at the report abstract cited at the beginning of the video, a lot of the same, full of could and might be's, a lot of conjecture, no science (just look at the title of the paper) - Journal of Modern Physics, not exactly a powerhouse (impact factor 0.97, 7.1 citations/article).

Not sure plasmoids are actually taken very seriously by the physics community - google plasmoids, some pretty funny stuff.

"Plasmoids are amorphous beings with no typical shape. In the presence of other folk, they often adopt a similar form, but there's little chance of mistaking a plasmoid for anything else. They consume food by osmosis, the way an amoeba does, and excrete waste through tiny pores."

"Do plasmoids have a god?" "According to the plasmoids, they arose when their god, Glorp, fell from the sky and impacted the island of Dyndar."

Plasmoid | World of Erah D&D Wiki | Fandom


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Old406Kid said:
Yeah but...
The FAA can impose civil penalties of up to $27,500 for not having a Remote ID module. The FAA can also take other enforcement actions, including:

  • Suspending or revoking a drone operator's pilot certificate
  • Imposing fines of up to $75,000 per violation for unsafe or unauthorized drone operations.
I have no idea what these sightings are but before it's done the FAA will most likely step up enforcement which has been nil at this point.
I fly larger RC planes and the clubs I belong to are qualified as FRIA zones so exempt from the RID requirements.
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Just like gun control or whatever else, those with criminal intentions DO NOT follow the rule of law.
 
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