Think of the bees! Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41826380

Not only that, but the article alleges that they couldn't catch the drones either

Begs belief, some information must be getting caught by a classification here

Does seem a bizarre restriction. I assume this is restricted airspace. Anything unpiloted should be fair game to be shot down.

It's vastly more likely that it was a classified US military-intelligence operation/test than a foreign actor operating freely in deepest CIA territory.

But threat inflation = bigger budgets.

If it's a drone, then it's not unidentified - it's a drone. Do we need make/model and owner to call it identified? Maybe birds should be called UFOs too, unless we can identify the species?

There's a conspiracy among techies growing like ivy: that UFO == aliens, and that the US gov't is in cahoots, or being attacked by them. It's SO weird to see this spread among self-described critical thinkers. Probably why the change.

yeah it does because EMF could take out a lot more than just the drones including airplanes that are flying commercial paths up higher, or cell towers, etc.