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Written by Matt McIrvin on 2024-12-21 at 14:43

The question the big "mystery drone" panic raises, that I don't see people asking themselves, is why these things light up at night if they have secret evil intent.

A hobbyist drone, like a civil aircraft, lights up so you can see it, and there are regulations and such about this to avoid accidents. But someone trying to spy on you or attack you with a drone would presumably not want it to be seen. So why would it present as a light in the sky?

The exception I could see is if someone is just trying to mess with your head, so then the light serves as part of its harassment function. But the far more likely explanation is that this is exactly like UFO panics of old and most or all of what's going on is people convincing themselves to misinterpret ordinary aircraft or astronomical objects.

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Written by Matt McIrvin on 2024-12-21 at 15:25

(Also, if it's just some prankster, that prankster is at least as likely to be a copycat inspired by the drone panic as the root explanation of it. Nor is that thing going to be one of the car-sized objects that people are imagining they're seeing--it's going to be something you can probably buy at a toy store.)

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