Mystery Drones

[Max Peck]

[Punisher]

I'm always worried the FAA will be aware of any transgression I commit while flying my little DJI Mini drone. If they can't even identify something as big as a car, it's probably misplaced worry.

I too have a DJI.
I also live near an airport in NJ.
Not near enough to to be in a no fly zone but near enough that I have to keep applying for a release or whatever from DJI just to take off.
I've been tempted to go up but I also only go up during the day and have filed the whatever with the FAA and labeled the drone with my FAA number.
I'm still super careful and keep it under 200 feet as well.
It's too expensive to FaFo.

[Kraken]

I was thinking of getting a little quadcopter to inspect my gutters and frighten squirrels. Now I wonder if I can weaponize it. Fuck squirrels.

[Punisher]

They are way ahead of you.

Spoiler:

[Max Peck]

The good news is that if the government/military does know what's going on, it's only going to be a month until Trump can't stop himself from telling the world after he's been briefed on the big secret.

As incoming president, he is already getting security briefings.

And he's clearly using that access to help:

[Holman]

So did the aliens all fly home for Christmas, or what?

[Isgrimnur]

Apparently one thing that might be going on is that people on the ground are shining lasers at "mystery drones", while there has been an uptick in reports of pilots being hit in the eyes by lasers.

I remember a case a few years ago when someone was deliberately shining a laser at incoming aircraft; the person went to jail. The feds are pretty serious about lasers and aircraft.

We have a whole thread on it.

I still don't know how the police found my compound where I ran an illegal searchlight depot/covert blimp airfield/fireworks testing range.