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I’d have to go digging but a local news crew was able to capture video at one point. Here’s an amateur video... https://www.denverpost.com/2019/12/31/drone-vid

I’d have to go digging but a local news crew was able to capture video at one point. Here’s an amateur video... https://www.denverpost.com/2019/12/31/drone-video-yuma-county-colorado/ https://www.denverpost.com/2019/12/31/drone-video-yuma-count...

the-dude 6y ago
Thank you! Funny the video quality is very UFO-alike : it could be anything.
- GordonS 6y ago
  Yep, all I see is a small white dot moving on a completely black background - not particularly convincing.
  - dylan604 6y ago
    What would you expect though? More than likely someone's mobile device. These things are not good at taking pictures without plenty of light.
    - GordonS 6y ago
      Maybe it would be more convincing if you could see something, anything other than pure black - buildings, a tree line, whatever. As it is, it's literally a white dot on a black background - I couldn't even see any image noise in the black (although I am on mobile).
      - dylan604 6y ago
        Why? It's western Colorado. There's nothing out there except land. The sky at night is black. Something flying in the night sky will be flying above tree lines requiring the observer to be looking up. I honestly don't know why you'd be expecting a full on feature film production level of equipment to be available to someone that happens to notice a drone flying and trying to capture it. There's a reason certain activities take place in the dead of night. Avoiding being seen is one of them. What's the confusion? I get it's "disappointing" to not see everything, but if everything could be seen in the footage there'd not be mystery/intrigue.
        GordonS 6y ago
        > honestly don't know why you'd be expecting a full on feature film production level of equipment to be available You're exaggerating now. My point was simply that the imagery is entirely unconvincing, and could be trivially faked.
        matthewdgreen 6y ago
        The objection several posts up was "there are all these reports, but nobody captured video?" And then somebody pointed out that in fact witnesses did capture video, but it's as predictably terrible as one would expect given that smartphones are terrible for filming remote airplanes at night.
- bronco21016 6y ago
  Agreed. The news crew video was a little better as they had some sound of the propellers lending some credibility. I just can’t seem to track it down.
rtkwe 6y ago
If it's just one that's not particularly weird. There are really powerful lighting systems available now in packages small enough to be put on a cargo quad that put out a LOT of light. On an octocopter like the Alta X or other cinema style drones they could stay up for a while just carrying the light. There's also some companies with tethered systems that could stay up indefinitely. A larger 'swarm' could be any number of even non defense companies testing. https://www.stratusleds.com/module https://www.stratusleds.com/module Stratus Light in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvDXjC-_7uo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvDXjC-_7uo AirMast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nllC9LGnUMQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nllC9LGnUMQ

the-dude 6y ago

Thank you! Funny the video quality is very UFO-alike : it could be anything.

GordonS 6y ago
Yep, all I see is a small white dot moving on a completely black background - not particularly convincing.
- dylan604 6y ago
  What would you expect though? More than likely someone's mobile device. These things are not good at taking pictures without plenty of light.
  - GordonS 6y ago
    Maybe it would be more convincing if you could see something, anything other than pure black - buildings, a tree line, whatever. As it is, it's literally a white dot on a black background - I couldn't even see any image noise in the black (although I am on mobile).
    - dylan604 6y ago
      Why? It's western Colorado. There's nothing out there except land. The sky at night is black. Something flying in the night sky will be flying above tree lines requiring the observer to be looking up. I honestly don't know why you'd be expecting a full on feature film production level of equipment to be available to someone that happens to notice a drone flying and trying to capture it. There's a reason certain activities take place in the dead of night. Avoiding being seen is one of them. What's the confusion? I get it's "disappointing" to not see everything, but if everything could be seen in the footage there'd not be mystery/intrigue.
      - GordonS 6y ago
        > honestly don't know why you'd be expecting a full on feature film production level of equipment to be available You're exaggerating now. My point was simply that the imagery is entirely unconvincing, and could be trivially faked.
        matthewdgreen 6y ago
        The objection several posts up was "there are all these reports, but nobody captured video?" And then somebody pointed out that in fact witnesses did capture video, but it's as predictably terrible as one would expect given that smartphones are terrible for filming remote airplanes at night.
bronco21016 6y ago
Agreed. The news crew video was a little better as they had some sound of the propellers lending some credibility. I just can’t seem to track it down.

rtkwe 6y ago

If it's just one that's not particularly weird. There are really powerful lighting systems available now in packages small enough to be put on a cargo quad that put out a LOT of light. On an octocopter like the Alta X or other cinema style drones they could stay up for a while just carrying the light. There's also some companies with tethered systems that could stay up indefinitely. A larger 'swarm' could be any number of even non defense companies testing. https://www.stratusleds.com/module https://www.stratusleds.com/module Stratus Light in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvDXjC-_7uo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvDXjC-_7uo AirMast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nllC9LGnUMQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nllC9LGnUMQ