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Interesting, thank you very much for that link. I gotta say, though... Back in the day, I was really interested in skeptic culture, which at that point was foc
by 13thLetter 11y ago
Interesting, thank you very much for that link.
I gotta say, though... Back in the day, I was really interested in skeptic culture, which at that point was focused on debunking UFO sightings. Often, airline pilots were the ones who reported UFOs. And the pilots' drone reports in that newspaper article really feel familiar to the old UFO reports in their vagueness and impossibility to confirm, without useful radar information or photographs. This one in particular set off screaming alarm bells for me:
"In the first incident on May 29, the pilot of a commercial airliner descending toward LaGuardia Airport saw what appeared to be a black drone with a 10-to-15-foot wingspan about 5,500 feet above Lower Manhattan, according to a previously undisclosed report filed with the Federal Aviation Administration."
10-to-15 foot wingspan? 5,500 feet up? Really? And nobody could track down this enormous mystery aircraft operating high above one of the most tightly controlled airspaces in the world and almost colliding with an airliner?
Of course, none of this says that a drone and an airplane couldn't get into a fatal collision at some point -- it's a serious danger we should consider ways to avoid -- but there's just something about these reports that feels terribly off.
- dalke 11y agoI can see where you are coming from. Plus, these observations are of "unidentified" flying objects, making them technically UFOs. When will airlines have the equivalent of dashcams?