We had a woman within a few km of our rc flying club that used to cause grief for us with the local council in Perth because our planes were noisy. This usually didn’t happen on flying days and our planes were mostly electric, but that didn’t seem to matter and we nearly lost access to the council reserve we were using. One weekday I’m there alone flying and observed a light aircraft performing aerobatics several km away, and over the residential area. Sure enough another complaint came in, but this time I had recorded the exact timing, which coincided perfectly. We didn’t get bothered again thereafter. So yep, eyewitness reports are unreliable. I also hold a PPL.
We had a similar claim from a local woman who thought we were flying model planes over her house no where near our field. The club president contacted her and after a bit more information was obtained it turned out to be a manned gyrocopter.
I recall how at Brussels airport when there was an anti noise campaign going on by people who decided to buy houses next to the airport, when a scheduled flight wouldn’t depart due to some technical reason, nonetheless at the scheduled time of departure the complaints would come in by phone.
I had something similar happen, but where I was flying over the farm fields next to our village. Woman comes and complains to me about the noise and that she has been looking for me for weeks. Says my plane is too noisy even though I am flying close to the houses only for take off and landing, else I am way out of noise range. Accuses me of flying for hours on end and I explain the longest I can fly is about 10 minutes which I do only once a day. Someone had been using a router for the last few weeks as they were busy on a project and as soon as I said that you could see the light go on as she realised how wrong she was!
Imagine the chaos if power went out during the night and people in the cities saw the stars. They'd probably thing there are thousands of drones observing them.
This already happend. It was not drones bit I remember a story when there was a power outage and people could see the milkyway. Police got calls of an alien invasion or something like that
@@notsure1502you do make a very good case, by writing a word in capital letters, clearly you have a keen perception of events that the rest of us lack :)
ive started blaming drones for all sorts of things. "WHO LEFT ALL THESE DISHES IN THE SINK?" .... "Oh that was the lightning v2 Julie" on a positive note bruce. im about to hit 7 YEARS as a supporter of your patreon. thanks for all you do mate.
1st 10 years of my life in the 60s was on a USAF base. These people live by major airports. Why can't they recognize man aircraft? The nav lights? Really people. 1st time you looked up?
Read a ufo sighting report recently where a woman said she saw some colored lights over a forest, that then moved off slowly in the direction of the airport :)
A few misidentifications have been out there and retracted. a lot of these sightings are in airspace that is closed for all traffic now, so that explanation is out the window.
@@PRH123 That all these were misidentified aircraft. Military installations have had lots of these things flying into their restricted airspace too. Kirby denying it doesn't clear up anything.
never let a good disaster go to waste and always have at least 3 scapegoats ready up your sleeve. these were of course trans muslim extremist maga drones.
An ‘expert’ is someone who knows more and more about less and less till they know everything about nothing? I have said it’s all a ‘smoke screen’ to force through legislation. Keep up the good work Bruce.
Dear Xjet, As a RC hobbyist, I could tell exactly what was going on, but you have to understand the context of the state of the American people vs the Federal government and the government's state news media system. Under the last administration the American people have been lied to by the federal government and the media so much that it is unprecedented in the history of the last 50+ years in America. The last election was truly about this exact aspect. From open attacks on the fabric of Freedom of Speech to so many hoaxes and lies that they were caught in, the majority of the American people are beyond pissed off. I think that what you are seeing from this story is the the American population has zero trust in the federal government or any of the main stream news media and that is well earned. Even with the white house saying this, I promise you no one will believe a single word any of them say. The US federal government and the government controlled news media (All of the Cable news networks) in America have become the boy who cried wolf. I believe this will change over the next year once this current government regime is tossed out.. You also must remember that for weeks this Government Regime let a now confirmed Chinese spy Balloon fly across America and did nothing about it until the people went this crazy over it all. Even in this press conference from the white house the Whitehouse says they have no footage themselves of these drones/aircraft that people are seeing. As I am sure you know, our government created apps that show all registered aircraft flying in area and the officials and law enforcement used these first to check the supposed drone sightings. According to them( law enforcement and local government officials), there are no registered aircraft, be it public or military oriented, in these areas during the sightings. That is part of the issue that has fed this craziness. The one thing that I myself find very odd is that Life flight helicopters have reported, that on more than one occasion they had to turn away from landing to save someone in a medical emergency because of these unidentified aircraft as they are not even showing on their flight systems. To my knowledge that kind of thing has never happened in America. It is also odd that professional people in aviation and on the military bases have also came out and publicly said that these are not registered aircraft of the public or of the military. I will end this by saying that I am not in these areas personally (different state) where the sightings are and from the limited footage I have looked at, they appear to me to be real aircraft, but I have not dug around much because I understand the situation I mentioned above with how America currently is. Always have enjoyed your channel and work! Keep it up! Sincerely, Dez from RC Sane Asylum
I think Bruce means well and is being skeptic, but I think there is more to it and despite living near a few airports for over 20 years including ATL Hartsfield, I can say I've noticed unusual things the past couple of weeks and it is disconcerting to see blatant violations of airspace going unacknowledged. Citizens want to know, and have a right to know what is going on if they are operating in public and in civilian areas which they are. this is according to people in law enforcement, military, and public officials, not just wackos with a cell phone.
The bits I saw in photos looked very much like high altitude weather balloon.. and the base commander and weather service confirmed this at the time.. It's all nonsense.. but I'm still waiting for somebody to tell me what it was I saw in the sky while waiting for a bus on the way home from work in June 1982....... Nearest thing I have seen to that was in a video shot on a phone by Fran a couple of years back.
Not so sure I agree. General Aviation (GA) aircraft have transponders. Local ATC should be able to identify any GA aircraft via transponder. Any other aircraft, ATC should be able to see it via radar unless it has stealth technology. I haven't heard of any of that happening. If it were a foreign government sending in drones for surveillance or recon, they wouldn't have transponders, and they might not show up on radar, but I'd think they'd be operating dark. I.e. no running lights. So things aren't adding up yet.
I live in NJ and have seen and heard them myself. I'm 76 and have flown remote control for probably as long as you, about 50 years and also have a private pilot ticket and had my own plane. They are drones, I feel the Gov is involved somehow trying to create some type of crises for what reason I'm not sure, but I assure you they are drones. I agree that many of the sightings are real planes, but not all and I know what I'm looking at. My daughter first seen them before we heard any hysteria about them.
This channel is not interested in critically examining the evidence. This channel seems way more focused on hating the US government and trying to imply their countries Most important ally is somehow completely incompetent.
PA here. I’ve seen things in the sky here for about a year. I pull up flight radar and sometimes it’s an aircraft, other times there is nothing shown. Private pilot, RC pilot for decades. I know what a plane looks like at night. Bruce, love you but perhaps you should come on over here and look yourself instead of pontificating from 1000’s of nautical miles away.
@@markloy9651 What class of airspace are you under? Remember, ADSB is optional in Class G and even outside of class G some aircraft are not logged by FR24 -- they can pay to be made "invisible". Then there are military aircraft that can turn off ADSB as/when they wish.
A lot of these so called "experts" have proven time and time again they are experts at BS, not the field they claim to be expert in. I choose a lifetime of experience over "experts". 😅
Your mistaken a lot of use stand back and watch the insanity that comes from the big dem ran Citys. The rest of use avoid these people that are to LAZY to think and research for them selves.
Sometimes embarrassed to admit Im a US citizen. Ill be in your neck of the woods for Christmas. Would you have any extra common sense that I could take back to the USA next month?
I wonder if it's an unusual weather event? The sky looks misty, so could blurr and reflect standard lights, and make them look unusual enough that people get 'confused' by what they see?
@@waynesmith2287 That's for sure. Meteorologists only just worked out the Titanic weather conditions caused a 'mirage' effect, that explained why they could not see the iceberg, why the nearby ship did not see their flares and due to the effect confused the Titanic with a merchant ship and why passengers described that the stars 'twinkled'.
No surprise there then!!!😂😂😂 I’ve been laughing at them all week. But what is this really telling us about the current state of affairs in the Western World?
That people don't do research. There's so much footage that can't be explained away as this that or swampgas, anyone who has looked into the subject has to reach the inevitable conclusion.
We were flying for a project at Bathurst (Mt Panorama) over a 4 day period at the end of November. We had our Notams and all appropriate documentation lodged with Airservices. So when what we thought was an RC plane came over the top of the mountain at one point, we followed our safety procedures and made sure we were not in the same exact airspace (we had 3 drones in use. Inspire 2, avata and Matrice.) - so this plane was quiet...and seemed around 300ft mark above us (2100ft ASL)...so within the altitude we were operating... Anyway- it flew over the top of us as operators and dissapeared to the south of rhe Mountain. 20 min later it came back towards the North...this time you could hear an engine... Wait...what? I checked flightRadar...sure enough it was a manned aircraft. It was simply the angle and distance it was away from us (in fact more than 1700ft higher) that it appeared to be an RC. Also no engine when going south...because it was using thermals and probably on Idle or could well be a hybrid glider/powered craft. Just shows visual sightings just cannot be trusted in this space!
You are 100 percent correct. With the lack of reference cues it is *very* hard to make judgements regarding size (and therefore speed) against a blank sky -- especially at night as is the case in the USA right now. Unfortunately, in the case of hysteria, people will be influenced by what they've read and heard, further distorting their ability to think objectively.
@PiDsPagePrototypes the NOTAM was not an exclusionary notice as we were only at drone max height, ie. no more than 400ft (no different to Notams existing for Highrise cranes - ie .just a notice to avoid!) And upon checking in FR as noted they were at something like 3800ft. So our vertical seperation was maintained. Ans also when looking at the path later on, that seperation turned out to be irrelevant because they were not over the Track...but that lack of visual reference to make out it's size made it look like it was over the track. In reality they were probably 1km away horizontally, and that 1700ft vertically. Making it look like a 2m glider for instance...and instead it was a Diamond DA40, a common training craft...which also stood to reason why we saw it several more times doing similar patterns...(airport not far away too.) Something which did surprise us, was 1st time I saw it I immediately opened Flightradar and my own local ADSB radar...it didn't show. But then showed the 2nd time we saw it...but showing the full track it had been on. That was weird...and a little frightening really...showing that even ADSB enabled craft may not always be visible. That initial inability to identify a Manned craft had us thinking UAV...which to be honest was scarier than if it were Manned - where we could have far more chance to communicate with a pilot on Air radio.
@@lklmmedia4715 I've noticed discrepencies between AussieADSB and ADSBExchange, some aircraft, notably VicPol's Heli's and fixed wing, don't appear in the Aussie site. Definitely good to double check.
Bruce,your not an idiot.I love you Your great.I learned soo much from you.I have been watching you for a very long time now.I have the highest respect for you.Just keep me inspired to fly my models again when it warms up again.Im freezing here.
One 'news' live cross, the 'reporter' interviewed a local barista, who was more knowledgeable and well spoken then most of the 'experts', or the reporter.
The problem was that the FAA did not clarify that they were manned air vehicles. There may be a reason for this, possibly experimental planes, or in this climate of blame, noone wanted to stick their head above the parapet.
I love this channel I have been watching you for a very long time and I love flying drones and model aircraft myself. I live in New Jersey only about 3/4 of a mile from the ocean and very near a joint Air Force Base / army base and I have seen at least 50 of these things from my backyard while using an aviation tracker to make sure that they were not any kind of manned aircraft. They are not anywhere near the size of hobby drones and they are way bigger but not half as big as something like a Cessna 172. I don't know what they are but from what I have seen personally they are fixed wing with gas engines propeller-driven and very much real.
Other nations have similar problems - but at least there the affected residents are not continually trying to fill their ghostly Doppleganger full of holes. 😁
Jungian (Carl Jung) projection is when one sees their own personal sins and fears in others. If one wants to know what the us govt is planning or up to, it’s enough to review what they accuse others of doing. The us govt does fly drones over other countries all the time. But not the other way round.
I guess my biggest thing, thinking this is a distraction, is that they display proper lighting. If it was a truly nefarious action, they would run dark. That's why I think it's a distraction.
I've been arguing with people for weeks that every video I saw was just terrestrial aircraft complete with navigation lights. I can't understand how this was allowed to continue for so long
Seemed pretty obvious to me after watching the video of the "drones". They had full navigation lights on them which means they're most likely manned aircraft.
Hear Hear! Bruce, Going back to 2017 when i listened to a federal politician here on prime time radio and member of the gov "drone" committee claiming Hundreds were going to Die, 'Well' know one has died but a lot whipped themselves into such a frenzy that they have lost their marbles.
I see Donald Trump Jnr has just joined Unusual Machines ( a USA manufacturer of drones and drone components) as an advisor. Probably because his dad wants a drone for Christmas. ( one with a big red button on the controller) 😂😂😂😂😂
Or because dear old dad is about to ban DJI in favor of 'american made', so Unusual Machines stock price will skyrocket, then Don Jr will sell off, right as buyers find out the reason Unusual Machines can't compete with DJI in an open market, is because their products are crap.
Is this a wind up Bruce ? I'm seeing lots and lots and lots of videos are very low flying obviously not commercial or private aircraft ... there have been thousands of reports of hovering for hours all night over the house very low and I have seen numerous videos of it what are you on about
Few of these reports have any credibility. Remember that it was reported a swarm of drones rose out of the ocean and that there was a "mothership" off the coast? Seriously, hysteria has taken over. There are very good explanations for almost all the things being reported -- for instance, if an airlier is flying towards you from a distance it will appear motionless in the sky -- that's just how the physics work. It's not hovering, it's flying at hundreds of miles an hour but it looks perfectly still. Too many people don't understand basic science and allow the hysteria to shape their observations.
@@xjet the report of many coming from the sea now being reiterated by further officials... including several following CG vessel...now being confirmed by higher ups.... Certainly confusion with planes happening but what about the large number repeatedly in restricted airspace over military sites and outraging mayors and State reps ?
Lots of drone sightings in Upstate New York tonight between Schenectady and Albany Airport. GPS hold for several minutes then flying forward at least 50 miles an hour at 1000 ft altitude. Many drones flying near each other and in formation. I saw at least six
I would have sworn these were all blurred video fakes...but about an hour ago my friend yelled me to take a look and the thing is a drone, too high to hear prop noise, look as it came from the direction of Ellington field heading west right above my place which is a few miles south of Houston Hobby where I am just off the approach, when the wind is from the north. Too fast for me to get my phone or binocs for a record or closeup. Climbed up on the roof and waited for a return but none so far. Nothing scary about it, but seems to be the same highly lighted, all red as I could tell. Very interesting.
Guys, guys, these are Santa's delivery sleighs, they've been given a new design, so no idiot can recognize them anymore. The old sleigh with reindeer has had enough, the animals just emit too much methane out the back and Santa is getting really cold in an open sleigh..
These are most likely pivotal Helix's, they look like big drones but they're manned so they don't require any of the over-regulation that drones have. No one unless they're really into "flying cars" like me knows about them it seems.
This is a bandwagon, too. The Government can legislate without going to such length. Ultimately, the use of FPV drones in Ukraine is all the advertisment they'd need to justify even tougher legislation.
Man you've gone off the reservation, get it together. There's been reports and videos of the drones hovering 150' off the ground as big as bus, just because you get a couple pictures of airplanes you call the whole thing a mass Hysteria. Supposedly, there's been a crash of one of the drones just yesterday. Once it's proven I certainly hope you are man enough to own up to your jumping to conclusions and desperate clickbait.
As a representative of the USDA(United States Drone Air Force), I would like to say” We deny any involvement in this high level douchbaggery”. Why not just use RFID to identify the pilot? Oh, I forgot it doesn’t work. Probably just the Ukrainian Air Force on maneuvers.
Everyone has a camera on them at all times these days. Should be pretty easy to get video evidence of something if it isn't a manned aircraft. If they are hovering low enough for someone to see clearly, they are low enough to film. Too fast, too high, or not sounding like an angry weed whacker, and it's probably an airplane, helicopter, or even a satellite.
There was an act called the Countering CCP Drones act that was part of the National Defense Authorization Act that has to get passed. All sorts of misinformation about drones has been spread by the supporters of this act which fueled this unfounded hysteria in New Jersey. Part of it was that people are paranoid about drones, but there was also an American manufacturer of drones who couldn’t compete against the leading world manufacturer that was trying to get them removed from the American market by ginning up the false idea that the Chinese manufacturer were a national security threat. I figure that is what’s behind this nonsense.
there was a few legit drone formation flying sighted near USAF bases but then media spammed that pic of 737 belly and it all got swept into the LOL bin, not many vids of the formations all got drowned by the spam
agreed media is not generally showing good examples and if I didn't know better I'd think there was a concerted effort to make people look hysterical over nothing, or further regulate and legislate, or both
Not arguing that the US is a laughing stock, I'm going through other videos, but the model I shared, has the visual characteristics of some of the videos. Many of these are smaller commercial airplanes being misidentified
We had a woman within a few km of our rc flying club that used to cause grief for us with the local council in Perth because our planes were noisy. This usually didn’t happen on flying days and our planes were mostly electric, but that didn’t seem to matter and we nearly lost access to the council reserve we were using.
One weekday I’m there alone flying and observed a light aircraft performing aerobatics several km away, and over the residential area. Sure enough another complaint came in, but this time I had recorded the exact timing, which coincided perfectly. We didn’t get bothered again thereafter.
So yep, eyewitness reports are unreliable. I also hold a PPL.
The Army of the Karens is on duty 24/7, hairbrained and hair triggered.
We had a similar claim from a local woman who thought we were flying model planes over her house no where near our field. The club president contacted her and after a bit more information was obtained it turned out to be a manned gyrocopter.
I recall how at Brussels airport when there was an anti noise campaign going on by people who decided to buy houses next to the airport, when a scheduled flight wouldn’t depart due to some technical reason, nonetheless at the scheduled time of departure the complaints would come in by phone.
I had something similar happen, but where I was flying over the farm fields next to our village. Woman comes and complains to me about the noise and that she has been looking for me for weeks. Says my plane is too noisy even though I am flying close to the houses only for take off and landing, else I am way out of noise range. Accuses me of flying for hours on end and I explain the longest I can fly is about 10 minutes which I do only once a day. Someone had been using a router for the last few weeks as they were busy on a project and as soon as I said that you could see the light go on as she realised how wrong she was!
'Drones' are not the only reason the world is laughing at the USA.
I agree but you and Ray Gun need to go back to break dancing lmfao! 😂😂
The biggest reason the world is laughing at the USA is Joe Biden AKA BRANDON!!!.
But that was fixed on November 5th 2024!!!
Or even the top 5
Yeah, they came close to having cackling Harris as POTUS, talk about dodging a bullet...
As a representative of part of the world that is not America, I approve this message.
Imagine the chaos if power went out during the night and people in the cities saw the stars. They'd probably thing there are thousands of drones observing them.
Hovering over their houses :)
This already happend. It was not drones bit I remember a story when there was a power outage and people could see the milkyway. Police got calls of an alien invasion or something like that
Lol so true
Those ARE drones! WAKE UP!
@@notsure1502you do make a very good case, by writing a word in capital letters, clearly you have a keen perception of events that the rest of us lack :)
Why is it that all pictures of Sasquatch and these drones are taken with the worst cameras ever made?
Sasquatch is mostly naked. They do it out of respect, or in fear of legal troubles.
Clear, in focus photos would debunk their claims.
😂😂😂
@@Fragmentofbone 🤣🤣🤣
@@Fragmentofbone Nowadays Sasquatch might sue for misgendering!
Come on now Bruce. Boeing aircraft can't fly.
It must be an Airbus.
Or an Antonov!
Thank you sir. No common sense anymore in this country... Idiots are everywhere!
I'M ASHAMED OF OUR MEDIA HERE!!! RIDICULOUS....
ive started blaming drones for all sorts of things. "WHO LEFT ALL THESE DISHES IN THE SINK?" .... "Oh that was the lightning v2 Julie"
on a positive note bruce. im about to hit 7 YEARS as a supporter of your patreon. thanks for all you do mate.
Thanks mate.... appreciated!
1st 10 years of my life in the 60s was on a USAF base. These people live by major airports. Why can't they recognize man aircraft? The nav lights? Really people. 1st time you looked up?
Read a ufo sighting report recently where a woman said she saw some colored lights over a forest, that then moved off slowly in the direction of the airport :)
stupid can be fixed but dumb is forever. 🤭
A few misidentifications have been out there and retracted. a lot of these sightings are in airspace that is closed for all traffic now, so that explanation is out the window.
@ what’s out the window?
@@PRH123 That all these were misidentified aircraft. Military installations have had lots of these things flying into their restricted airspace too. Kirby denying it doesn't clear up anything.
never let a good disaster go to waste and always have at least 3 scapegoats ready up your sleeve. these were of course trans muslim extremist maga drones.
I live in New Jersey sick of stupid politicians 😂😂😂 THE Plane boss THE Plane 😂😂
Top reference Felix
Man, in this world of modern media and misinformation and all that, I wouldn't know what to believe in the world of drones without you.
The Sky is falling the Sky is falling....We can't trust a damn thing anymore!
Drone sightings reported by people that have never seen drones before? I wonder how that happened?
the real issue is that those people have control of nukes !
Exactly! Credit to them For admitting it, rather than just brushing it under the rug saying “we will never know what it was”.
An ‘expert’ is someone who knows more and more about less and less till they know everything about nothing? I have said it’s all a ‘smoke screen’ to force through legislation. Keep up the good work Bruce.
It's F all about B all!
An expert is also a repaired leak in a pipe!
Dear Xjet, As a RC hobbyist, I could tell exactly what was going on, but you have to understand the context of the state of the American people vs the Federal government and the government's state news media system. Under the last administration the American people have been lied to by the federal government and the media so much that it is unprecedented in the history of the last 50+ years in America. The last election was truly about this exact aspect. From open attacks on the fabric of Freedom of Speech to so many hoaxes and lies that they were caught in, the majority of the American people are beyond pissed off. I think that what you are seeing from this story is the the American population has zero trust in the federal government or any of the main stream news media and that is well earned. Even with the white house saying this, I promise you no one will believe a single word any of them say. The US federal government and the government controlled news media (All of the Cable news networks) in America have become the boy who cried wolf. I believe this will change over the next year once this current government regime is tossed out.. You also must remember that for weeks this Government Regime let a now confirmed Chinese spy Balloon fly across America and did nothing about it until the people went this crazy over it all. Even in this press conference from the white house the Whitehouse says they have no footage themselves of these drones/aircraft that people are seeing. As I am sure you know, our government created apps that show all registered aircraft flying in area and the officials and law enforcement used these first to check the supposed drone sightings. According to them( law enforcement and local government officials), there are no registered aircraft, be it public or military oriented, in these areas during the sightings. That is part of the issue that has fed this craziness. The one thing that I myself find very odd is that Life flight helicopters have reported, that on more than one occasion they had to turn away from landing to save someone in a medical emergency because of these unidentified aircraft as they are not even showing on their flight systems. To my knowledge that kind of thing has never happened in America. It is also odd that professional people in aviation and on the military bases have also came out and publicly said that these are not registered aircraft of the public or of the military. I will end this by saying that I am not in these areas personally (different state) where the sightings are and from the limited footage I have looked at, they appear to me to be real aircraft, but I have not dug around much because I understand the situation I mentioned above with how America currently is. Always have enjoyed your channel and work! Keep it up! Sincerely, Dez from RC Sane Asylum
I think Bruce means well and is being skeptic, but I think there is more to it and despite living near a few airports for over 20 years including ATL Hartsfield, I can say I've noticed unusual things the past couple of weeks and it is disconcerting to see blatant violations of airspace going unacknowledged. Citizens want to know, and have a right to know what is going on if they are operating in public and in civilian areas which they are. this is according to people in law enforcement, military, and public officials, not just wackos with a cell phone.
As an American, I find it increasingly easy to laugh at the United States as well.
Recent hysteria about a mothership near the sun has been proved to be mercury, who”d have thought??..🤔😂😂🤣😂🤣
That’s not a planet, that’s a fully operational space station :)
Kirby sounds just like the Air Force in 1947 saying it was just a weather balloon at Roswell.
The bits I saw in photos looked very much like high altitude weather balloon.. and the base commander and weather service confirmed this at the time.. It's all nonsense.. but I'm still waiting for somebody to tell me what it was I saw in the sky while waiting for a bus on the way home from work in June 1982....... Nearest thing I have seen to that was in a video shot on a phone by Fran a couple of years back.
Not so sure I agree. General Aviation (GA) aircraft have transponders. Local ATC should be able to identify any GA aircraft via transponder. Any other aircraft, ATC should be able to see it via radar unless it has stealth technology. I haven't heard of any of that happening. If it were a foreign government sending in drones for surveillance or recon, they wouldn't have transponders, and they might not show up on radar, but I'd think they'd be operating dark. I.e. no running lights. So things aren't adding up yet.
I'm going to prepare pop-corns before reading the comments below!! it's going to be fun! 😂🤣😂
"Drone...Paper bag ... or Fruit bat???" Thanks, Bruce.
Are they going to call the meteor shower this weekend a drone attack?
Skydio left the commercial market to make military drones. Social media posts are planes.
Amen to the wise Mr. Bruce and the X Jet team
I live in NJ and have seen and heard them myself. I'm 76 and have flown remote control for probably as long as you, about 50 years and also have a private pilot ticket and had my own plane. They are drones, I feel the Gov is involved somehow trying to create some type of crises for what reason I'm not sure, but I assure you they are drones. I agree that many of the sightings are real planes, but not all and I know what I'm looking at. My daughter first seen them before we heard any hysteria about them.
I also live in South Jersey. Have flown FPV drones for about 8 years. They are 100% drones.
This channel is not interested in critically examining the evidence.
This channel seems way more focused on hating the US government and trying to imply their countries Most important ally is somehow completely incompetent.
So you say I'm saying the government is incompetent but you say that their analysis is flawed. So both the Government *and* I are wrong then?
PA here. I’ve seen things in the sky here for about a year. I pull up flight radar and sometimes it’s an aircraft, other times there is nothing shown. Private pilot, RC pilot for decades. I know what a plane looks like at night. Bruce, love you but perhaps you should come on over here and look yourself instead of pontificating from 1000’s of nautical miles away.
@@markloy9651 What class of airspace are you under? Remember, ADSB is optional in Class G and even outside of class G some aircraft are not logged by FR24 -- they can pay to be made "invisible". Then there are military aircraft that can turn off ADSB as/when they wish.
How do you explain the recent report of drones swarming a US Coast Guard vessel?
Kirby is full of BE! Cannot stand this “administration”!
You rock Bruce !! Merry Christmas !!
You tell them bruce. Even I didn't believe that these we're drones to begin with.
Never let facts get in the way of clickbait.
There's no drone problem thats why we need more drone regulation!!!
No we don't need more regulation to further strangle our rights and freedoms
That’s why they are doing this. I give it 6 months and all hobby grade drones will be banned at all sizes.
Don’t get mad at me!
A lot of these so called "experts" have proven time and time again they are experts at BS, not the field they claim to be expert in. I choose a lifetime of experience over "experts". 😅
Merry Christmas Bruce. Hope this warm weather is aiding you health.
Yep, it's still raining and blowing but at least the rain is warmer.
You and I both both called. That sign language interpreter captures my feelings well.
Almost all Americans go for “Counselling” at least twice a month… It’s the law 😂😂😂😂😂
Your mistaken a lot of use stand back and watch the insanity that comes from the big dem ran Citys. The rest of use avoid these people that are to LAZY to think and research for them selves.
Like Mick Dundee asked - "Don't they have any mates?" 🤔😒
Sometimes embarrassed to admit Im a US citizen.
Ill be in your neck of the woods for Christmas. Would you have any extra common sense that I could take back to the USA next month?
Sorry but I think there's a world-wide shortage. The USA is not alone in that.
You should move to Afghanistan
I agree regardless of unmanned or manned they should be easily tracked of who they are and what they are doing especially at night
It would hardly be a 'stealthy' aircraft if it is covered with lights!
It appears all the warnings about flying over restricted areas is malarkey! 🤔
🤣😂 we live in Clown World
That is a federal offense to shoot down a drone
Only if you are caught! And then only if you can't afford some high powered lawyers. And have not been smart enough to stack the Judicial System.
@ true
But is it a drone if it has passengers onboard? 😅
@@pfeerick no
I wonder if it's an unusual weather event? The sky looks misty, so could blurr and reflect standard lights, and make them look unusual enough that people get 'confused' by what they see?
I was thinking similar in the fact that people have been out on dark winter's night and actually looked up. Weather can cause all sorts of anomalies.
@@waynesmith2287 That's for sure. Meteorologists only just worked out the Titanic weather conditions caused a 'mirage' effect, that explained why they could not see the iceberg, why the nearby ship did not see their flares and due to the effect confused the Titanic with a merchant ship and why passengers described that the stars 'twinkled'.
No surprise there then!!!😂😂😂
I’ve been laughing at them all week. But what is this really telling us about the current state of affairs in the Western World?
Simple... we don't need a sequel to Dumb and Dumber... we're living it!
That people don't do research. There's so much footage that can't be explained away as this that or swampgas, anyone who has looked into the subject has to reach the inevitable conclusion.
We were flying for a project at Bathurst (Mt Panorama) over a 4 day period at the end of November. We had our Notams and all appropriate documentation lodged with Airservices. So when what we thought was an RC plane came over the top of the mountain at one point, we followed our safety procedures and made sure we were not in the same exact airspace (we had 3 drones in use. Inspire 2, avata and Matrice.) - so this plane was quiet...and seemed around 300ft mark above us (2100ft ASL)...so within the altitude we were operating...
Anyway- it flew over the top of us as operators and dissapeared to the south of rhe Mountain.
20 min later it came back towards the North...this time you could hear an engine...
Wait...what?
I checked flightRadar...sure enough it was a manned aircraft.
It was simply the angle and distance it was away from us (in fact more than 1700ft higher) that it appeared to be an RC. Also no engine when going south...because it was using thermals and probably on Idle or could well be a hybrid glider/powered craft.
Just shows visual sightings just cannot be trusted in this space!
You are 100 percent correct. With the lack of reference cues it is *very* hard to make judgements regarding size (and therefore speed) against a blank sky -- especially at night as is the case in the USA right now. Unfortunately, in the case of hysteria, people will be influenced by what they've read and heard, further distorting their ability to think objectively.
Did the manned aircraft fly in to the NoTAm area? Did you speak to CASA, and if so, what response?
@PiDsPagePrototypes the NOTAM was not an exclusionary notice as we were only at drone max height, ie. no more than 400ft (no different to Notams existing for Highrise cranes - ie .just a notice to avoid!) And upon checking in FR as noted they were at something like 3800ft. So our vertical seperation was maintained.
Ans also when looking at the path later on, that seperation turned out to be irrelevant because they were not over the Track...but that lack of visual reference to make out it's size made it look like it was over the track.
In reality they were probably 1km away horizontally, and that 1700ft vertically. Making it look like a 2m glider for instance...and instead it was a Diamond DA40, a common training craft...which also stood to reason why we saw it several more times doing similar patterns...(airport not far away too.)
Something which did surprise us, was 1st time I saw it I immediately opened Flightradar and my own local ADSB radar...it didn't show.
But then showed the 2nd time we saw it...but showing the full track it had been on. That was weird...and a little frightening really...showing that even ADSB enabled craft may not always be visible.
That initial inability to identify a Manned craft had us thinking UAV...which to be honest was scarier than if it were Manned - where we could have far more chance to communicate with a pilot on Air radio.
@@lklmmedia4715 I've noticed discrepencies between AussieADSB and ADSBExchange, some aircraft, notably VicPol's Heli's and fixed wing, don't appear in the Aussie site. Definitely good to double check.
Ya, most airliners hover....
Thank you for the sanity, xjet!!
Well said Bruce🤠👍🛩️🇿🇦
Bruce,your not an idiot.I love you Your great.I learned soo much from you.I have been watching you for a very long time now.I have the highest respect for you.Just keep me inspired to fly my models again when it warms up again.Im freezing here.
This tells us everything we need to know about the Americans (just look at who they've voted for president!!0
This is no surprise, after all look at who the USA elected to be their next president.
What are your pronouns sir?
Laughing at all the people that said you didn't know what you were talking about. It wasn't hard to tell what was being reported weren't drones
One 'news' live cross, the 'reporter' interviewed a local barista, who was more knowledgeable and well spoken then most of the 'experts', or the reporter.
Check out the latest press release from Whitehouse. The sightings are manned aircraft !
ruclips.net/video/1pfCyiEC6M0/видео.htmlfeature=shared
@@mikenowland2739 Yes, that adds to the level of deception here.
As an American, I approve this video, lol. People are morons.
Yanks seem to be unable to separate the super hero world from reality.
The problem was that the FAA did not clarify that they were manned air vehicles. There may be a reason for this, possibly experimental planes, or in this climate of blame, noone wanted to stick their head above the parapet.
I love this channel I have been watching you for a very long time and I love flying drones and model aircraft myself. I live in New Jersey only about 3/4 of a mile from the ocean and very near a joint Air Force Base / army base and I have seen at least 50 of these things from my backyard while using an aviation tracker to make sure that they were not any kind of manned aircraft. They are not anywhere near the size of hobby drones and they are way bigger but not half as big as something like a Cessna 172. I don't know what they are but from what I have seen personally they are fixed wing with gas engines propeller-driven and very much real.
Hmmm something is just not right here and sadly I don’t know that it will ever be that simple.
Americans will find conspiracy in anything, like why is my shadow always following me?
You assume a lot. Just because big media says things. They don't speak for the majority of regular people. Guess why we all are armed.
Other nations have similar problems - but at least there the affected residents are not continually trying to fill their ghostly Doppleganger full of holes. 😁
I see the need for a law against shadows now. 😊
Jungian (Carl Jung) projection is when one sees their own personal sins and fears in others. If one wants to know what the us govt is planning or up to, it’s enough to review what they accuse others of doing. The us govt does fly drones over other countries all the time. But not the other way round.
I guess my biggest thing, thinking this is a distraction, is that they display proper lighting. If it was a truly nefarious action, they would run dark. That's why I think it's a distraction.
US Military: we have investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong with our own drones and equipment.
And probably the same reason that it's all gone quiet on the Lakenheath and Mildenhall drones in the UK.
I've been arguing with people for weeks that every video I saw was just terrestrial aircraft complete with navigation lights. I can't understand how this was allowed to continue for so long
Thank you
Seemed pretty obvious to me after watching the video of the "drones". They had full navigation lights on them which means they're most likely manned aircraft.
Hear Hear! Bruce, Going back to 2017 when i listened to a federal politician here on prime time radio and member of the gov "drone" committee claiming Hundreds were going to Die, 'Well' know one has died but a lot whipped themselves into such a frenzy that they have lost their marbles.
Have u seen the footage? Those are NOT legally operated nor are they all Manned aircraft .... Give Ur head a shake
Which footage?
SHIT! LIBERAL!😮
I see Donald Trump Jnr has just joined Unusual Machines ( a USA manufacturer of drones and drone components) as an advisor. Probably because his dad wants a drone for Christmas. ( one with a big red button on the controller) 😂😂😂😂😂
Or because dear old dad is about to ban DJI in favor of 'american made', so Unusual Machines stock price will skyrocket, then Don Jr will sell off, right as buyers find out the reason Unusual Machines can't compete with DJI in an open market, is because their products are crap.
"Finest political minds" that's up there with telephone sanitisers.
Bruce you are a treasure.
Is this a wind up Bruce ?
I'm seeing lots and lots and lots of videos are very low flying obviously not commercial or private aircraft ... there have been thousands of reports of hovering for hours all night over the house very low and I have seen numerous videos of it what are you on about
m.ruclips.net/video/18oFOPVEzvk/видео.html
Few of these reports have any credibility. Remember that it was reported a swarm of drones rose out of the ocean and that there was a "mothership" off the coast? Seriously, hysteria has taken over. There are very good explanations for almost all the things being reported -- for instance, if an airlier is flying towards you from a distance it will appear motionless in the sky -- that's just how the physics work. It's not hovering, it's flying at hundreds of miles an hour but it looks perfectly still. Too many people don't understand basic science and allow the hysteria to shape their observations.
@@xjet the report of many coming from the sea now being reiterated by further officials... including several following CG vessel...now being confirmed by higher ups.... Certainly confusion with planes happening but what about the large number repeatedly in restricted airspace over military sites and outraging mayors and State reps ?
Lots of drone sightings in Upstate New York tonight between Schenectady and Albany Airport. GPS hold for several minutes then flying forward at least 50 miles an hour at 1000 ft altitude. Many drones flying near each other and in formation. I saw at least six
you are like the only one in the world who believes Kirby lol, not planes bro, even botgrinder saw one last night, ask him.
I would have sworn these were all blurred video fakes...but about an hour ago my friend yelled me to take a look and the thing is a drone, too high to hear prop noise, look as it came from the direction of Ellington field heading west right above my place which is a few miles south of Houston Hobby where I am just off the approach, when the wind is from the north. Too fast for me to get my phone or binocs for a record or closeup. Climbed up on the roof and waited for a return but none so far. Nothing scary about it, but seems to be the same highly lighted, all red as I could tell. Very interesting.
Well, there are real drones flying about for various reasons. Enthusiasts, mapping, pipeline, delivery, etc. Why would that be surprising?
Might be a government one, looking for the reported ones. Or just another airliner.
Orson Welles showed the gullibility of the human race with his 1938 ? broadcast of The War Of The Worlds !
Once again, Bruce was right
Guys, guys, these are Santa's delivery sleighs, they've been given a new design, so no idiot can recognize them anymore.
The old sleigh with reindeer has had enough, the animals just emit too much methane out the back and Santa is getting really cold in an open sleigh..
So many of these sightings seem to be by people who have never been outside at night.
These are most likely pivotal Helix's, they look like big drones but they're manned so they don't require any of the over-regulation that drones have. No one unless they're really into "flying cars" like me knows about them it seems.
Nice one Bruce :) You just can't this shit up :)
This is a bandwagon, too. The Government can legislate without going to such length. Ultimately, the use of FPV drones in Ukraine is all the advertisment they'd need to justify even tougher legislation.
But how do you know there aren't aliens in those Boeings?
Man you've gone off the reservation, get it together. There's been reports and videos of the drones hovering 150' off the ground as big as bus, just because you get a couple pictures of airplanes you call the whole thing a mass Hysteria. Supposedly, there's been a crash of one of the drones just yesterday. Once it's proven I certainly hope you are man enough to own up to your jumping to conclusions and desperate clickbait.
As a representative of the USDA(United States Drone Air Force), I would like to say” We deny any involvement in this high level douchbaggery”. Why not just use RFID to identify the pilot? Oh, I forgot it doesn’t work. Probably just the Ukrainian Air Force on maneuvers.
It’s funny how some people just started to look up.
Everyone has a camera on them at all times these days. Should be pretty easy to get video evidence of something if it isn't a manned aircraft. If they are hovering low enough for someone to see clearly, they are low enough to film. Too fast, too high, or not sounding like an angry weed whacker, and it's probably an airplane, helicopter, or even a satellite.
And yet the chaos continues. I'm not getting involved anymore, even real pilots don't even bother.
people are so unobservant and suddenly get scared about totally normal things that are unfamiliar to them. And misjudging sizes… 🤦♂️ small… far away
I suspect that I may be the only one that gets your joke, Dougal :)
@@PRH123 would that be right Len?
@@PaulaXism oy, I’d rather be Larry Duff :)
There was an act called the Countering CCP Drones act that was part of the National Defense Authorization Act that has to get passed. All sorts of misinformation about drones has been spread by the supporters of this act which fueled this unfounded hysteria in New Jersey. Part of it was that people are paranoid about drones, but there was also an American manufacturer of drones who couldn’t compete against the leading world manufacturer that was trying to get them removed from the American market by ginning up the false idea that the Chinese manufacturer were a national security threat. I figure that is what’s behind this nonsense.
there was a few legit drone formation flying sighted near USAF bases but then media spammed that pic of 737 belly and it all got swept into the LOL bin, not many vids of the formations all got drowned by the spam
agreed media is not generally showing good examples and if I didn't know better I'd think there was a concerted effort to make people look hysterical over nothing, or further regulate and legislate, or both
I feel like the drones belong to black rock
So, they are more of afraid of eyes in the sky than the new generation of appliances and smart phones pose a greater threat to privacy.
Not arguing that the US is a laughing stock, I'm going through other videos, but the model I shared, has the visual characteristics of some of the videos. Many of these are smaller commercial airplanes being misidentified
The pictures look like it's foggy.The planes are turning on their floodlights to see and let others know where they're at.
Anyone who has ever seen an airplane in the sky at night could see all the so-called drones are airplanes.
Most people are too busy watching Netflix at night to bother looking up at the sky -- so when they do they get confused.
About time !! Time for this paranoia too end. CHEERS Steve h.
Spot on Bruce
🤣 Who would have thought, that when you have 300k to spare, so you can buy a "Drone Bike", you wouldn't.