100 MPH Drone Chased by Tucson Police Department

[@Robinallenyukon]

this would be a security issue if it was first spotted at an Air Force base !

[@michaela6147]

The only security issue is the US government

[@MikeSmith-do5gu]

...CHINESE OWNED & RUN DRONE

[@siennavanlife9502]

There's an Air National Guard base at Tucson's International Airport.

[@TheTubejunky]

Would NEVER make it near it. You're very Naive.

[@RANGER73CPT]

They HAVE BEEN spotting UAS's at USAF bases for DECADES!!!!

[@joshuarespecki1883]

This has happened twice in tucson. Sheriff helicopter chased the other one. The other big thing to note is that both incidents involved Davis-Montham Air Force Base.

[@timk.3286]

my guess is cartel

[@ThatOpalGuy]

​@timk.3286 drones don't have that range. But good try.

[@joshuarespecki1883]

@@ThatOpalGuy They can be launched anywhere. It's not like they would have to launch from. mexico

[@PiDsPagePrototypes]

​@@ThatOpalGuyMultirotors don't have huge range, consumer available Wings, 50 miles is a doddle for the electric ones flying way point missions. 100 miles and above is comercial models. Heck, if this thing was a EDF or Turbine, the Heli would never keep up.

[@OctogonOxygen024816]

​@joshuarespecki1883 not true, you gotta check your weather and provide infrastructure to operate and recharge the drone and the equipment

[@98f5]

Sounds like someone at the military base had a fun day

[@vapormissile]

We're being groomed

[@dizzleslaunsen2372]

@@vapormissileyou people just take words and misuse them until they have zero meaning.

[@vapormissile]

@@dizzleslaunsen2372 we're being led to false conclusions.. grow up

[@billrockmaker]

Raytheon

[@escapetarkov3838]

@@vapormissile He's not wrong.

[@RealDougFields]

It was seen at/near an Air Force Base 1st and the Police are the ones worried about it? Military Drone being used/tested for sure or this would be a bigger deal.

[@Cornish_Co]

The police couldn't identify the drone. So.... it was a UFO.

[@ragndroneman]

Or.... the police couldn't identify the UFO, so it was a drone?!

[@Happyants_]

or it was a rc airplane

[@lociflow6154]

@@ragndroneman The drone in this case was a "Unidentified Flying Object" So it is a UFO. :)

[@Rowganlife]

FINALLY someone uses the term properly.

[@thomaspayne6866]

But they could identify it. Because they called it a drone

[@veritasweasel]

It’s the US Air Force messing with two cross eyed police officers flying in circles in a helicopter! God bless America!

[@kezark31]

Using 4g there is no limit to range...there is several FPV missions on youtube. You also have dragon link UHF for long range fpv flight. The speed and capacity is interesting though

[@Thunderbyrd.]

I use Dragonlink on one of my FPV planes and you are right, range can be up to 20+ miles, or 4g could be unlimited. You can get an hour or more out of a plane but definitely not a quad. So, that's my question. Is It a quad or plane?

[@bidenisasnake9932]

Most on this platform cant grasp what you just mentioned. Yet I have to register my back yard toy level UAS.

[@staymad7206]

@@bidenisasnake9932 you dont have to do shit. fuck the faa

[@staymad7206]

100mph is achievable with a 6s fixed wing drone

[@RandoWisLuL]

@@staymad7206 100mph is possible on a quad or tri copter too, not THAT hard

[@AudioFreqx]

that is 400 feet AGL.. You can fly from a 14k foot summit and go to 14,400 legally.

[@sienp9674]

Hahahaha. Nice Part 107 joke there. Don’t worry. I won’t let it go unappreciated

[@OrangeBlossom4x4]

@@sienp9674idk what the issue is, the drone was performing emergency procedures to give the manned ac right of way

[@conorstewart2214]

@@sienp9674 what joke? That is literally what the law is.

[@johnsoncityaerialphotograp7201]

@@conorstewart2214agreed, I routinely use the mountains in our area to “mountain climb” and stay 300-400 ft AGL while climbing up the mountain until I’m at the software limit of 1640 or the rare extended limits in some areas where you can go to I think 2800 or so as long as you’re still at 400ft AGL.. but flying down from a 14,000 summit to near below sea level in Tucson and back up raises battery issues.. definitely not a consumer DJI product.. probably one of the Chinese spy drones we keep hearing about, or our own government from the AFB

[@AerialEscape]

Limited by airspace classification. Not a blanket 400ft rule.

[@jdelaney9325]

They were chasing a Canadian goose….😂

[@highcommander2007]

ok i laughed

[@Dwigt_Rortugal]

African or European swallow?

[@glennquagmire1747]

No it was Daffy Duck

[@-the1b4u-]

Possible more than 1 drone

[@timk.3286]

could be

[@Moosetick2002]

That's what I was thinking. They could have multiple up there and turning lights on and off to be seen when they want, to create an illusion it was one moving super fast. The pilot is probably a magician.

[@JimsEquipmentShed]

So where is the police chopper footage of this supposed chase? 100 MPH for an hour? I'm totally calling bullshit on this story. The 14k feet is totally possible, but the hour long chase, and no inferred signature just isn't plausible. (Because not being battery powered would mean that it has exhaust system....)

[@hellogoodbye3129]

Yup... I'm calling BS aswell!

[@mustangjames1988]

They want to take our rights away.

[@Galiuros]

Mount Lemmon, the highest peak in the Catalina Mountains is only about 9200 feet. There are no 14,000 foot peaks in Arizona.

[@JimsEquipmentShed]

@@Galiuros That wouldn't matter, because I don't think the police chopper can fly that high anyhow. The drone can, because its crew doesn't need breathe at that level..... ;-)

[@Galiuros]

@@JimsEquipmentShed My point, really, was the accuracy of the information. Fact checking is not a bad thing and being correct lends credibility to the message. Just to add... Cartel drug carrying drones wouldn't venture more than a few miles past the Border to do their drop. These drops are coordinated with other cartel members that hang out on remote desert peaks. (I've lived in southern Arizona for over 40 years.)

[@mhsandifer]

I hate the word "drone". Was it a quad or other multi-rotor? Regular helo type? Winged? And if winged or single-rotor, how do we know it wasn't gas powered? Other than the cops were chasing "something", that's all we know. And why aren't there 100 FAA agents enforcing 107 on this pilot? Oh, that's right, we just make up stuff to penalize the law abiding hobbyist.

[@Cybo-Man]

That term “drone” is what destroyed my beloved RC hobby. Now all RC aircraft are considered “drones” and subject to government interference. I tried for years to reverse the use of this terminology by only using terms like “quad rotor” and “multi rotor” but unfortunately the other hobbyists went right along with the government instead of pushing back. Now I have multiple aircraft hanging on my wall that I used to fly weekly, but now are too big and too fast and are subject to government rules and regulations forcing licensing and gps locators. Can’t even fly smaller aircraft in a local park anymore without being harassed by someone looking for trouble.

[@smugfrog8111]

@@Cybo-Man I just do it anyway. I don't register my guns either.

[@Hajile_Ibushi]

My definition of a drone is something that can fly missions autonomously (i.e. it has a GPS), even them, i still call them quads, planes, etc., if it crashes or goes off in a random direction when you let go of the sticks, it's not a drone. Seriously, they keep showing DJI and then suddenly switch to a reaper? Those are two completely different aircraft! No quad can go full tilt for an hour but i can still believe a plane can do it. If it's a hybrid then quads are completely out of the question, the weight would be far too much. Man, i haven't really flown my planes since lockdown.

[@smugfrog8111]

@@Hajile_Ibushi That's funny, I got back into RC during the plandemic. I needed something to do that involved getting out and being defiant, you know? Compliance was never an option.

[@Moosetick2002]

@@smugfrog8111 So you follow the rules you want. How do you feel about others doing that?

[@w.e.s.]

I been telling people this for years bc this is OLD NEWS!!!! it's a fixed wing 4g. I make them and fly them. I can go 3 or 4 hours up to 100 plus miles away at 100 mph. It's not difficult only cost about 2500 bucks to make that's cheaper then a mavic 3... please yall need to chill tf out on this. Government just mad bc we are smarter when we try. It's not a quad it's a fixed wing!!!!!!!

[@d-boyzeighteenhundred]

Would be pretty sweet to be able to fly a drone about 100 miles back-and-forth i kinda wish i had a extra 2500 😂😎

[@kutabareseniorita6036]

i agree it has to be fixed wing, especially at those altitudes, speeds, flight time and distance.. air is thin at 14k . choppers generally dont fly above 15000 feet

[@sergeantseven4240]

Exactly! Everyone keeps saying "drone" and using pictures of a DJI quad-copter. This had to have been a flying wing with long range radios on it. These "experts" know nothing about hobbyist FPV platforms apparently...

[@Eagle__1]

Spot on

[@PSALM_6012]

How is it they chase a drone but let a Chinese balloon fly by?

[@rowannadon7668]

U stupid or something?

[@nomadbiker4040]

Because the government feels more threatened by Americans than their enemies

[@GodBlessedAmerica]

My thoughts exactly.

[@213funnyp]

One of those places where cops get no action, and stop you if you you're the only car out at night😂

[@bidenisasnake9932]

Follow the Money.

[@acgstereoman]

Talk about an extreme waste of tax dollars. There is NO WAY they can justify paying a helicopter pilot and spending all that money on fuel to follow a drone!! Even if they had caught up to it, what would they have done, have a second person in the helicopter open the side door and throw out a lasso to apprehend the rogue drone???

[@RANGER73CPT]

Sure they can, remember we used to have $400 hammers that are now $2400 hammers????

[@AlphaMachina]

No, they were hoping to chase it until it ran out of juice and landed or crashed. Or, better yet, return to home. But the drone obviously had the tech and capacity to avoid that.

[@macbook802]

The pilots risked everyone in tucson's lives by chasing a toy like that for an hour

[@riverbankfisher]

If the police helicopter had been able to pull within camera view of the renegade drone, orders to pull over could have been issued so that airspace violation citations and speeding tickets could be served on the usual suspects.

[@connorjohnson4402]

Its more so to keep track of it to make sure it doesnt interfere with air traffic, it doesnt show up on radar and apparently already almost hit a helicopter. It might seem like a lot to waste but its a smaller price than the potential impact it could have if it were to cause a plane crash. Its also possible they were attempting to track or block the signal going toward it, i would imagine most larger city police departments have a system that is made by dji that allows them to identify and track or locate the drone pilot. I also imagine that they had such a hard time seeing it because i don't really think those camera systems they use are really the best at tracking things that are closer and in the air since the majority of the time they are looking at things on the ground.

[@213funnyp]

Definitely aliens

[@vapormissile]

Martians

[@Dwigt_Rortugal]

You know aliens, always up to some tomfoolery

[@jackkraken3888]

Illegal aliens.

[@SkyStepDrones68]

How is it that we have no footage of the drone??? The helicopter has cameras, right??

[@chicagoskycam]

Agreed

[@вечная_мерзлота]

try yourself filming a flying drone you'll understand why: aiming camera at 200ft at 10in moving object and then worse: holding it onto it is just impossible .

[@frogsoisuoiusd7326]

@@вечная_мерзлота i agree but c'mon not caught on even a single frame?

[@reelshawnbradly3069]

I almost have to call B-S on the news story... over an hour of flight at those speeds and manuevers on a single charge...??? C'mon Man!!! I want one!

[@TheTubejunky]

Exactly imagine its our military and these dinks are wasting tax dollars. OR something else happened and they CLAIMED this as the excuse.

[@BillDownhill]

Either BS, or a DARPA drone that was tested without notifying anyone to gauge their response.

[@JohnSmith_1331]

My guess is that it wasn't one drone. The military was probably playing with some new toys and since the helicopter couldn't see it well they didn't realize when one drone dropped out and another took over.

[@highcommander2007]

It's not even "next gen" tech... its just duel fuel and possibly hobbyist level.... hardly mil tech

[@BillDownhill]

@@highcommander2007 A tiny drone with that kind of endurance?

[@byronharano2391]

I believe this being Tucson, Arizona this is a hobbyist builder who realized the felony violation by nearly colliding with a DHS Helicopter. Then this person just decided to go Air GTA to escape prosecution.

[@PauloBerni699]

I live in the Tucson Valley, the area it covered is obscenely vast.

[@byronharano2391]

@@PauloBerni699 Aloha neighbor! Whetstone, AZ here. Blessings

[@beforebefore]

Not really hobbyist class... a drone that can fly that long (time), that fast, that high, and that distance from the controller... that's a $20k to $40k machine... using hydrogen fuel cell for endurance, probably hybrid flight mode for speed and altitude.

[@Steezicus]

@@PauloBerni699 It's not that far from DMAFB to the top of Mt Lemmon. It only seems like it is because the road system is so terrible.

[@BitwiseMobile]

That is far from hobbyist level. There are few hobbyist drones that will go 100mph and maintain that for a long period of time. That's military technology. Normal LiPo batteries just don't have the energy density for that kind of operation. You would have to lug around a battery the size of car - and most of that energy would be just to carry the battery :D

[@discipleofchrist86]

Cartel

[@DJ-73]

Definitely could be.

[@s3tthunderbolt99]

2021 Police report....

[@johnhackert2092]

Remote identification is now a federal requirement. Could there be people out there who don't obey laws?

[@black98rt]

Surely not

[@hookabunny5030]

Yes they are called they ones who force the laws 🎉

[@ooigfgnnkhjjnc]

Fake law for the mindless

[@slowninja14]

People who build freestyle drones....

[@Dwigt_Rortugal]

Nah, humans are always benevolent and law-abiding

[@gottagift]

Drone pilot simply didn't want the toy to fall into the wrong hands.

[@whit3rabbit13]

About an hour south of Tucson is Fort Huachuca, the Army's intelligence and UAV training base.

[@solin3574]

Its a military project end of story

[@Dwigt_Rortugal]

But which military? Ours has dedicated airspace for testing aircraft.

[@Lift33d]

They have tech we cant even comprehend

[@My2Drumsticks]

Gas powered drones are a thing. Replace normal transmitters with cellular and you have far more reach

[@RANGER73CPT]

People will be at your doorstep shortly, dress casual and expect an extended absence...

[@smugfrog8111]

@@RANGER73CPT So, level IV plates?

[@Dwigt_Rortugal]

This is one of the theories that I find plausible. Fuel is heavy, though. Maybe someone with specific knowledge can comment on what kind of flight time can be expected with an internal combustion engine.

[@smugfrog8111]

@@Dwigt_Rortugal Electromagnetic gravitic propulsion.

[@geometerfpv2804]

You don't need a gas powered drone: just a wing. Amazing that no one knows about winged drones. They are much faster and fly for much longer and aren't expensive.

[@jackd6134]

Isn't this the same incident reported three years ago with ATC audio?

[@BrokenCrushedby]

Thank you we did not even see this story in Tucson but I've been seeing them

[@Zpyk17]

It’s an FPV drone. You can get it commercially from example iflight. You may believe FPV drones only can go for about 3-5 minutes, but if it’s like a 10” (inch) or bigger you can apply a HUGE battery like 20k mah which makes it available to fly for incredibly long. Those FPV drones can also go at immense speeds.

[@kevins90sc]

This story is VERY intriguing..would like to hear and see more about this...

[@chipm2544]

It will pop up again.

[@rickace132]

This video is old, it was uploaded more than 2 years ago.

[@chicagoskycam]

and we still don't know..

[@rickace132]

@@chicagoskycam It would be alien drone. We don't know.

[@shauncaruna387]

lol who the hell are the people to post videos 2 years into the future?

[@JP_N_AZ]

It would be cool if you mentioned the date on the incident. Looks like sometime in 2021 from the ads-b

[@ralph_bernhardt]

What a crazy case. Great breakdown of the situation!

[@PauloBerni699]

I live in the Tucson Valley the area it covered is vast, from where it began to Mt. Lemon on over towards Avra Valley is ridiculously far, and it climbed to altitudes of 14,000 feet?

[@CaliRob281]

I live in Corona, the reporting leaves many more questions than answers.

[@PauloBerni699]

@@CaliRob281 The claim was that it was a “Highly modified” quad copter type of configuration from what the pilots could assess but was about four feet across, so it was a larger unit. I don’t know if I believe the quad copter account.

[@kutabareseniorita6036]

@@PauloBerni699 cant be a quad.

[@russellhamner5150]

Alien drone needs no power

[@danhoffman9232]

The army base at sierra vista is one of the places the army's drone develop,emt amd research is based. it is east and south of the area it was seen.

[@MoaByte-v2z]

You call it a drone, its a UAP until there is a better explanation.

[@kutabareseniorita6036]

is this watering down UFO to UAP, same as the likes of pedohpiles being called bloody MAPs. Or Rape being called Sexual assault. Same shit

[@MoaByte-v2z]

A drone that could go over 10'009 ft , fly over 100 mph and no heat signature for over an hour is beyond our known technology.

[@tubekrake]

@@MoaByte-v2z A 200$ EDF Jet Plane can do all of these.

[@Aaaaa1ggg]

If I’m correct, the drone showcases there was an DJI inspire 1, x2 battery 40min flight time, and can be hot swaped, prob it was a dude trying to do cinematic with the police.

[@davidhamil4227]

I have seen hybrid nitro methane engine with batteries that allow for well over 1 hour.

[@HotPink90sSun]

big lithium did it

[@rambozo_fpv176]

Either they were confused or there were multiple drones deployed. There's no portable energy supply that can sustain those speeds for that long.

[@SterlingBhollah]

It was flying over an air force base but they didn’t think to use a jammer to disable the drone

[@taylormayhew369]

Adding the little micro generator and a fuel tank to your drone is pretty epic dude. Probably going to do that next

[@SpovoxGaming]

Army flys UAVs a hour and a half away from Tucson. I don’t know if there’s any connection.

[@SixOhFive]

Sounds more like a ufo than a drone?

[@Steve-sh9lj]

Per faa rules (cfr 14 part 107) maximum legal speed of a drone is 87kts (100mph) ground speed.

[@Free-Speech-Banned-By-Google]

The drone is powered by element 115

[@mikeanderson9266]

It is a MILITARY drone they have them in Phoenix too, one crashed near my house and the military officer asked neighbors about it.

[@_hashtag]

Someone brought their drone back from Ukraine.

[@dev-debug]

I think the flaw in the debate is assuming it was a battery powered drone. I can think of ways a nitro or other fueled single engine could power a quad rotor drone. There are ways to cool/shield exhaust output, especially at 100mph. Honestly the oddest part to me is not the drone but the lack of any pictures of it.

[@GatAppTechnologies]

Sounds really more like a FPV RC plane...some of them can get some ultra long range and some have really decent batteries that can last for quite a bit of time

[@ChrisHarmon1]

I wonder if it was a plane with something like DJI/Walksnail camera and transmitter. Planes can fly further for longer, but running 100 mph for over an hour would still be in the realm of difficult.

[@UCs6ktlulE5BEeb3vBBOu6DQ]

I got chased by a police heli during an event. I was 10km away in a crowd. I managed to outrun the heli, land and hide it seconds before the heli arrived on top of us. I was then just someone in the crowd. Fun times.

[@4ourthLetta2010]

They couldn't see it on RADAR; I'm pretty sure that's what they meant. I used to be stationed at DMAFB, as a Air Traffic Control RADAR Specialist

[@StephenYang]

Distance isn't an issue if you're connected via cellular. Speed isn't an issue, it just depends on power available. But endurance means the drone has to be larger than most battery powered ones.

[@jeffreyb8770]

Whatever happened to reports of a person flying over San Francisco Bay 2-3 years ago?

[@spawr845]

It's my hydrogen powered drone. But nobody will believe me so I'm good.

[@CallaFab]

Are we talking quadcopter drone or jet drone?

[@philipharrisson6894]

Sounds like the cartel.

[@octavio8558]

Sounds more like a DJI ban

[@EagleFPV43]

As a fpv drone hobbyist, this sounds pretty impressive. 100mph is easy to achieve, 1 hour is also easy to achieve and range is not an issue with elrs, but constant high speed and an hour of flight time is very hard to achieve, unless it is as they said, a hybrid system, but I've never seen such thing before. There was a drone that ran on 4 nitro engines in the past but it ran poorly as you obviously couldn't use any pid controllers on the output power of the motors. It is possible that it could've been a fixed wing, it's a shame that they show no footage or anything to analyse. They also never mention the size. If it'd a larger type of drone, like the military drone then it can be possible but I'm not experienced in those types of drones

[@kmieciu4ever]

If it was fixed wing that's actually both easy and cheap to achieve....

[@RickBlack-h8w]

There is a Honeywell testing facility north of Tucson in the San tan mountain park area. It could’ve been something from there.

[@AbNomal621]

The most obvious answer is that the drone doesn’t exist.

[@leechjim8023]

BOT!

[@LJR_LIMITED]

How do you maintain visual on a drone that's 5 miles away?

[@Dwigt_Rortugal]

You don't, because you don't need to

[@kutabareseniorita6036]

hahaha F VLOS. i told the aviation authority the same thing. cant do anything to me. its fKN funny as

[@ShireGanj]

It won’t be a quad copter, it will be a fixed wing fpv, which are readily available.

[@xuaalbito8303]

100mph for hours is crazy probably a military technology or someone extremely rich and smart like tony stark

[@steveanimatrix3887]

You can have 2 (or more) controllers with people in different locations who take over control to cover a longer distance. I also wouldn't be surprised if the pilot was on top of that mountain because you can get massive range up there with little to no interference.

[@kutabareseniorita6036]

with what system?

[@mikesuch9021]

More than one drone.

[@vernonturner3113]

I have flown many RC aircraft at Davis-Monthan AFB, back in the late 1970's

[@ocsrc]

This was not a commercial drone. This is a military DHS drone We have seen them over NYC

[@08turboSS]

Comy drone.

[@StitchesLovesRats]

Or, it could be that 2 dudes have 2 identical drones. They lost sight of it multiple times, yeah? So when one drone runs low on power, it flies to the spot where the other is waiting, and one lands for a battery change while the other takes its place. Or it's a highly maneuverable fixed wing. These are possibilites.

[@lonewolf2364]

There is a speed limit?

[@Planet-ICELAND]

why?

[@diegolopez19]

The only thing I could think of, is maybe someone has finally built a diamond battery that can run for a very long time at crazy speeds. Definitely someone with big money.

[@Kaz-300]

it is a long range fpv drone

[@portland675]

I lived in tucson when this happened, crazy story!

[@SpeedDemonExpress]

They weren't chasing anything. They just needed an excuse to take the helicopter for a joy ride.

[@kramsdrawde8159]

Thank you for the very thought provoking story...

[@KRich408]

It's 400' AGL (Above Ground Level) when you encounter a building, hill, mountain you can fly over it up to 400' above the building or ground underneath the Drone, I have my FAA drone license. Now it's running at that speed and over an hour it's got some serious battery power or they are exaggerating the timeline. Police tend to do this.

[@zr7699]

That wasnt a drone, thats a UFO

[@fonzieskatesurf]

1:38 "they're circling it and its circling them" *Circle of Life* 🦁👑

[@Quadcopter101]

Wouldn't be a multirotor drone. Couldn't fly that fast for that amount of time. But definitely could have been an RC airplane.

[@macbook802]

Im glad the helicopter pilots were in a state of mind that they didnt risk citizen's lives by flying around in circles at 100mph above neighborhoods

[@kutabareseniorita6036]

funny that isnt it! yet im told im risking peoples live taking video of fireworks.

[@rustyATV]

5:17 Davis Monthan AFB is a maintenance and storage depot for decommissioned aircraft. Literal thousands of acres of mothballed planes they scavenge for parts before scrapping them. Doubtful they would be testing anything unique there. A hobbyist flying something where they shouldn't in order to get cool shots, on the other hand...

[@skyh]

CBP air wing there .Drug cartel spying on them.

[@fearlessleader1436]

Sounds like a UFO, not a drone.

[@markp1506]

Most important point - they have NO IDEA what it was. It may not have even been a drone. IF it was, then it was either a ridiculously sophisticated home build (highly highly unlikely), or a defense/military build.

[@jeremyfoster3803]

Top secret military test drone!

[@squirrelynutz1]

My 13 inch prop quad can fly for 45 minutes going around 60 mph. Most distance it can go is 30 miles away with 1.3ghz video.

[@johncitizen5377]

They don't really mention the size of the drone. It could be done with a fixed wing or a VTOL. Very expensive and highly specialised but not impossible.

[@DragonSoaring00]

Remote ID stops this - how?

[@kutabareseniorita6036]

it doesnt

[@drelephanttube]

Could it have been a fixed wing?

[@mike4769]

A guy in south africa built a drone that set a speed world record that beat the red bull drone by a substantial amount.

[@jsauerii]

I have a problem with them saying it was going over 100 MPH and running circles around them but they were circling it which means it was much slower than 100 MPH, but then its a helicopter that can hover so if it was slower why were they continually circling? And then if they could not see it how were they circling and how could they only see the belly light? NOTHING in this story is adding up at all....

[@terranhealer]

Could it have been more than one drone mistaken as a single aircraft?

[@nvembrace]

Those are aliens flying their homemade drones

[@kevincoleman4571]

Its a 13 year old who got sent to her grandparents retirement home for punishment.

[@joetilman7227]

Why is everyone seeming to assume it was a quadcopter? A fixed wing drone could maintain that speed for far longer periods than most "copter" style ones.

[@graybeardsage]

What kind of batteries did that thing use?

[@kutabareseniorita6036]

100octane Fuel ( we get that in my country at the pump).. lowest is 91octane here. 87 is rediculous

[@Quantumfishics]

They never found the guy?

[@tazanteflight8670]

People are assuming this is an inefficient quadcopter, how could it fly for 30 minutes, but it could have been an efficient RC plane that could fly for hours. They are also assuming it was a large vehicle, but could only see a green light. This could be a very small vehicle...

[@TheJustinhcase]

Russian or Chinese government sponsors? Which was why it was loitering around a military base.

[@Dwigt_Rortugal]

I agree