The TRUTH Behind the Mysterious Drone Sightings

[@TonyAndChelsea]

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[@kevinsprague7799]

What i seen 5 yrs ago scared me n i hid, i seen something huge w a square yellow light scanning the area i was in, it was only 100ft or less from the ground and it was huge, made no sound

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[@timjohnson3877]

All speculation aside, I'm more puzzled as to why the overlap between observers of these drones and owners of good dslr/mirrorless cameras seems to be zero. I don't live in the area of sightings, but if I were to strap a 400mm to my old Nikon D5, I can guarantee it would grab a *very* good image of whatever these are, even at 100,000 ISO. No wildlife shooters seeing drones? Curious :-)

[@IvoTichelaar]

​@@Contrafactzwhat you need is a micro four thirds camera with a 2x crop sensor! 🤣🤣🤣

[@jessejayphotography]

I totally agree. Where are the camera nerds/experts coming forward with AT LEAST in focus video? I've realized over the years George Carlin was F'ing right about the intelligence of the general public. Most people have no clue how technology works but they all think they are experts.

[@NatureAndStars]

@@Contrafactz Of course a news crew can't always tell the difference. And even if they can, a "mysterious orb" brings much more views and a higher rating than "oh it's a plane".

[@flightographist]

I'm a veteran resource researcher, many moons of remote sensing. Die hard photographer. I'm also a pilot and a certified drone operator in Canada and the US. I don't leave the house without a camera. Anyway, here's my story: 2 yrs ago I was flying the clouds with my mini 3 pro ( in Canada there are no restrictions other than common sense on that platform or others of the same weight) I was cruising the St Lawrence River, gimbal up and heading west at about 700 meters agl, just under the cloud base. The clouds I was under opened up and I caught a glimpse of a black cube with spokes, obviously a drone...matrice maybe- about 100 meters above me keeping pace; obviously surveilling my flight which was along the border. Read into that whatever you like.

[@flightographist]

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[@billr6983]

Tony's last point in this video is valid. "Oops, people are suddenly paying attention to how us medical insurance companies are condemning their sick family members to death over the bottom line. HEY! DON'T LOOK HERE! LOOK OVER THERE!"

[@paulanthony1689]

Kinda sounds like a conspiracy (irony)

[@TATNThisAintThatNetwork]

This story broke prior to the CEO deletion tho

[@Grim2]

@@TATNThisAintThatNetwork Ain't it amazing how that keeps getting ignored?

[@aadamtinta5202]

True

[@oliverl.9004]

But people are not squirrels with ADHD. Most people are able to focus on several topics.

[@josh3326]

Never mind the drones. I still cannot believe it’s not butter!

[@brucer.5403]

Spway as Fabio would say it. Lol

[@AllThingsConsidered333]

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[@D.R.Z.]

I can it's better then butter

[@cauliflowerpower41]

Your deflecting is immature

[@sandrag.o.1752]

Haaaaa!

[@hellfire08]

I live in NJ. I’ve been flying drones since 2015. I’ve been into aviation my whole life. I’m 100% positive the things I’ve been seeing flying around aren’t normal planes or normal air traffic.

[@TonyAndChelsea]

Well PLEASE get an in-focus shot of it. Does it have FAA-compliant safety lighting?

[@teetermeeter]

Positive? Bold claim. You got video or photo evidence or should be just trust you? I've been flying drones for a bit and all I've seen is nonsense from people with no experience with the night sky.

[@NautiluxMedia]

@@Contrafactz😂 did he not suggest to try get a clear picture of one to prove these are supposed alien government drones? How on earth is that gaslighting anyone

[@NautiluxMedia]

@@Contrafactz I’m sure the Iranian radiation alien drone spaceships will be uncovered soon

[@jeffhaggarty9879]

Should be very easy to take a photo or video with decent gear then and back this up.

[@Spudsmachenzie1]

Here is where I’m at, pro/con: 1.) The cops seem pretty convinced something is going on. This doesn’t normally happen unless they’ve seen evidence as well. And there is proof they’ve seen them themselves. They are continuously sending up their own drones to investigate. 2.) This guy took some of the worst videos to prove his point. There are more concerning videos, why didn’t he look at those instead of the ones that are obviously planes. The videos he chose seem odd considering what’s out there now. 3.) Why aren’t there 3,000 amateur/pro photographers in NJ set up by now 24/7 trying to get “the photo” that would make them rich 😂. Seems like somebody would have something really really good at this point. Though I don’t think that even amazing cameras can take great photos of things in the night sky.

[@tdrewke]

Amazing cameras HAVE been taking excellent photos of things in the night sky for decades. And 99.999% of them are obviously neither UAPs nor evil drones.

[@niveketihw1897]

Kirby on Monday sounded exactly like Tony in this video -- there's absolutely nothing going on -- it's just delivery drones, hobbyists, maybe a police department, plus airplanes, helicopters, stars, ground-based lighting installations in the fog, maybe a Starlink sat here and there. All legal and lawful. Himes (of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence), on Tuesday after the classified briefing, stated that the drone activity is "Federal Government Operations." And therefore legal and lawful. How can both of these ^ explanations be simultaneously true? While I certainly don't believe in extraterrestrial origins, or searching for nuclear material, or foreign incursion, and while I certainly can understand there are a lot of UAPs that have a very pedestrian explanation, I think there are high end drones being tested by private companies, funded by the US Federal Government, in NJ and the surrounding area. And maybe that's even okay -- but the area they've chosen for testing, the gaslighting, the talking out of both sides, the demonization of what must be well over a million people who've seen these now, the lack of coherent messaging, and the unleashing of these and the panic / tizzy they've caused, are all signs of profound ineptitude.

[@nickaiken5715]

Explain the orbs there smart one @nivek

[@niveketihw1897]

@@nickaiken5715 Huh? Did you even read my whole comment?

[@Zbip57]

Can you post a link to any of these "more concerning videos"? Not the ones showing just a white light in the sky, which is most likely the landing light of a normal aircraft or even just a star or Venus. And not the multi-coloured blurs which, if not a normal aircraft could just as easily be someone's out of focus christmas tree. Where are these "concerning" videos that conclusively show a truck-sized drone over New Jersey? If you can't tell what it is, why does that automatically make it a drone and not a normal aircraft?

[@CapFrey07]

I've had no idea whats up with these sightings, but you failed to mentioned why members of the police dept have testimony of 50 drones at one sighting coming off the ocean, and an officer called 911 to report. The coast guard went to investigate and 13 drones followed them into port. Police drone operators said they can normally track heat signatures from drones, but not these drones. Police also said the drones were twice as fast as their own drones and they couldn't keep up, calling them a cross between planes and helicopters. Statements like these are mainstream news and while points of mis-identifying are valid, this video hardly qualifies as "the TRUTH."

[@martingreenaway8748]

Yeah, that one's amazing, because even though now everybody carries a video camera in their pocket, these ones are the ones that don't have any video footage.

[@Bill-v7e9x]

That story has been debunked.

[@pin65371]

@@Bill-v7e9x it could be possible. The guy over at Sandboxx put out a video about this and he said NASA and the DOD are working on drone swarm technology right now and are doing testing out in the wild right now. They have most likely been testing out of public eyes for a while but they will sometimes do some testing on new technologies where the public might see it. The audience is not really the public though. The audience is other countries.

[@mikes6973]

STARS (Standard Instrument Arrival procedures) can route aircraft from multiple locations from over the ocean to the 3 major airports in the NYC metro area, Newark, LaGuardia and JFK, and JFK is right on the water. Perspective come into play. As a plane flies in from Europe into JFK, it is coming from up near Greenland into US airspace and can appear to be coming in from the water when it isn't. A drone may fly at 40 MPH. Even a Cessna 172 may be cruising at 140 MPH, 100 MPH faster than the drone. An airliner, below 18,000' MSL will be flying around 250 MPH. Not even the fastest drones will catch one.

[@joeimbesi99]

your PROOF ​@@Bill-v7e9x

[@davidpavlich8939]

Then the air space over Wright Patterson AFB in Ohio was closed down due to drone incursions. The air space was closed by ATC, not by people seeing bokeh balls. Yes, we civilians mistake swamp gas for ET''s chariot, but sometimes we see drones. They just had closed door briefings for congressional critters so not all of this is hysteria.

[@A.S.K.1]

You understand that a drone getting sucked into an aircraft's engine could be very, very bad, right? THAT is why they closed it down.

[@boundaryscience]

@@A.S.K.1 Also, some of congress believes in Jewish space lasers, so I don't know if they're a good arbiter for reality.

[@davidpavlich8939]

@@A.S.K.1 Of course I do. I didn't think I needed to state the obvious. That's not the point. The point is that this video is doing what it can to poo poo the sightings. Some sightings have true consequences as the sightings I pointed out.

[@misham6547]

Ok so some idiots flew an fob drone to close to an airfield that’s pretty common

[@davidpavlich8939]

@@misham6547 True, but it happened during a time when drone sightings are front page news. If, from the beginning, a reasonable explanation was given, this whole conversation wouldn't be taking place. It's really that simple.

[@EternalMedia]

The drone craze stole the headlines from that "other" big news story.

[@marctastic32]

It's always the case.

[@Timetraveller2208]

Possibly to divert the publics attention from it? The longer the government can keep it with this charade, the quicker the main issue will be buried.

[@karlerrickson9725]

​@marctastic32 what's the other big story brother cause I don't trust anything the main stream media tells ya.

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

What is the "other" big news story?

[@huckleberry10ful]

We don’t know what the other big news story is since it’s been eclipsed by the drones!!

[@biblehistoryscience3530]

I was amazed to see news orgs showing the video with the out-of-focus dot of light, and saying we don't know what that is.

[@jeffhaggarty9879]

Because there job it to help create the hysteria as it is good for their ratings.

[@pdxskeptic]

All Bigfoot expeditions end the same exact way: without a Bigfoot

[@thomasburch3171]

Agreed, Every episode is nearly the same as all the others - different withness names, different geographical locations but always the same "Did you hear that?" line in every nighttime search for Bigfoot scene and filming it all with a cheap cell phone camera in the black of night, inside wooded forests. Yet the same Bigfoot Hunt programs are broadcast year after year after year.......

[@seankennedy152]

Bigfoot has nothing to do with this

[@pdxskeptic]

@@seankennedy152 its just an expression just like "wild goose chase"

[@robertclark972]

But, something's happening here and you don't know what it is , do you ,Mr. Jones ?

[@BlueEyeVisuals]

Thanks for making this Tony! People have already threatened to shoot down my drone while I was doing real estate photography well before this New Jersey thing.

[@bigvalexander8917]

I’ve been watching many of these videos theorizing on what these things are.. This was the first one from a dedicated photography channel which was cool to get that perspective . I’ve been shooting professionally for over 15yr and like to think I have a pretty good eye and while a lot of the videos are just airplanes there are a few that are hard to explain. One of the most compelling I saw was last night , and it was the swarm of them over Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. The camera was zoomed out pretty wide, the shot was sharp not so zoomed in and blurry. There was 10-15 of these things flying around erratically and they were 100% not airplanes of any kind. The only thing you could compare them to would be FPV drones as they were moving that fast. The real topper was the video played the air traffic control audio from the base and they were saying they didn’t know what they were and ended up closing the airspace. I’m all for debunking idiots filming airplanes but to completely dismiss this as hysteria , isn’t being honest.

[@DestinationTimeshare]

Where can we find a link to the video?

[@BaconRaygun]

Finally, somebody that uses logic and reason. Thank you, sir! One thing that really bothers me here is the media sharing photos of "drones" which you can clearly ID as an aircraft. One of the clearest photos shared in countless news articles is a Eurocopter EC130, and another one is literally an American Airlines flight (you can clearly see the tail art if you zoom in). I even went out three different nights, two on Long Island, and one I drove all the hell over to Jersey, and didn't see a single drone. It's maddening. I've also been flying/building drones and flying regular old small airplanes for decades, so naturally everybody I know has been spamming me with blurry photos of airliners. I feel your pain, man. Thank you, and keep up the good work!

[@CristiNeagu]

They're not aircraft, they've been confirmed as a government operation.

[@mikes6973]

I saw that same AA airliner that was seen over Tom's River. I have been around aircraft of one sort or another all my life and still live between 2 naval air stations and do not see any drones. There was a report of a drone over a local city. The flight path for the local airport is right over that city and since landing lights can be seen upwards of a hundred miles, of course it can appear to be such.

[@Everywhere2]

Batboy don't need no stinkin lights to fly over your house all night.

[@sbrunner1234]

I fly single-engine myself and drone, so far, I have not seen a single footage from one of these drone sighting in NJ, that actually showed a quadcopter (or UFO). Most pictures are out of focus, but as you said, from the position lights, you can see various aircraft moving from the vantage point of the photographer. When flying a small plane at night, you typically get flight-following from traffic control. They tell you about other aircrafts in the vicinity. Each time you are looking to spot one - you notice that it is actually not as easy to find. I doubt one would see a small drone from more than a few hundred feet away. What people actually see, are large aircrafts either departing, or mostly on approach. The pattern are just a line-up of flights that are sequenced for landing. Patterns do not have to be perfectly straight either. Could be even U-shaped, or offset. What people see as spontaneous ultrasonic zipping, looks more like a plane that moves in the direction of line of sight, changing heading. Some of the pictures actually looked more like stars on the night sky. I am sure there are some morons flying small drones where they should not, which si nothing new, other than that, mass hysteria.

[@harryvarner6652]

How much is the government paying this guy?

[@drewp1974]

Exactly !!

[@vk2aafhamradio]

How much is the government paying you? 🤔

[@Miko_Gee]

4:10 PORT is Red; STARBOARD is Green. Port/Left = 4 letters & Port Wine is Red. (Prior USCG Aircrew 😁)

[@MrUncensored]

The guy with the zoomed on piece of light even says something like, “that’s what happens when I zoom all the way in on the drone.” He isn’t lying, but he isn’t being honest. He zoomed all the way in on one of the lights of the drone, which is why it is even flashing, like the lights on the drones flash.

[@MrUncensored]

Private helicopters are sort of truck size, depending on the type of truck. And I saw a lot of videos that looked like regular helicopters.

[@TonyAndChelsea]

Yeah agreed lots of them are just helicopters

[@scottscrufari]

There is a missing nuke in NJ and it appears that they may be searching for it using radiation detection on those drones.

[@davidapharry4680]

@@scottscrufari That "nuke" you're talking about is a small, mildly radioactive pin used in cancer treatment that had been sent for disposal and was missing from an opened container. Its radiation is not detectable from a few feet away, much less from a drone high in the sky. Ignorant hysteria.

[@jeffhaggarty9879]

@@scottscrufari Doesn't work that way, so no.

[@RedneckEngineerMakerDude]

Uhh... wait a minute! Does this mean that there is also a chance that those curious glowing "Orbs" captured in photography, by ghost hunters, in cemetery's, late at night, might not really be true ghosts? "OMG!" "Am I being misled?"

[@TonyAndChelsea]

Haha we already did this kzbin.info/www/bejne/inTIk5dvjJWVoqc

[@shoponadimellc3413]

@@TonyAndChelseathank you so much for this video man this needs to go viral ASAP! My god they have ppl so brainwashed almost had me second guessing

[@AT-ld7kg]

the luminous spheres in cemeteries have been known for perhaps more than 100 years and are known to be "wisps", they are the result of a chemical process caused by the combustion of gas, phosphorus or methane.

[@vk4jsn]

I think people are more pissed off about governments lack of credible explanation than if they were told it's actually aliens.

[@altonmarsh]

So the operators are staying quiet because… Or, the briefing about this in Congress today was highly classified because..,

[@TonyAndChelsea]

The operators of what exactly? Every example I found looked like either a consumer drone (some flown by absolute assholes) or FAA-compliant flights.

[@teetermeeter]

Elaborate on what you're seeing because all I've seen are identifiable aircraft, stars, venus, and a ton of shit posting fakes.

[@Zach-h9k]

Problem is, a news agency had a reporter on the street and happened to see an orb in the air and recorded it. It looked IDENTICAL to other videos and im sure the camera man knew how to get that orb focused. It doesn't matter how many are fake or mistakes, if there is ONE that is real, we have an issue. We have an issue.

[@bold58]

Why is the government acting like they don't have a clue ?

[@PopularesVox]

All is safe and effective.

[@vk2aafhamradio]

Because it's the government, who usually don't have a clue. Never attribute to malice that which is more easily explained by incompetence.

[@Everywhere2]

Because there's nothing to have a clue about.

[@bonneharkema2458]

Now that's an ouroboros on it's own. ;)

[@blekenbleu]

Lots of folks in government don't have a clue and could not land a productive job.

[@janbottorff4642]

Thanks!

[@TonyAndChelsea]

Thank you!!

[@OlivierMuys]

I'm astounded by the sheer incompetence on display here

[@OlivierMuys]

The most troubling part is the scorn and ridicule directed at those who observe occurrences that defy their understanding. Such a shame...

[@DestinationTimeshare]

@@OlivierMuys The problem is that most people's understanding of what they are seeing is just wrong. Most would call it ignorance. They don't know what they are looking at. Then you have thousands more people all looking up now because this is in the news. I have yet to see any videos that are of better quality than the ones shown in Tony's video. It's all blurry images and hearsay reports. Eyewitness reports are usually terrible. People have a difficult time remembering or explaining something they saw or heard five minutes ago.

[@williammurray7268]

Thanks for clarifying. But do you have an explanation about the sightings of multiple drones flying together, so-called drone swarms?

[@spiritseeker8220]

Good question and then disappearing into thin air. New Jersey police said they were tracking one with their drone and it just disappeared. They're saying they move really fast. Idk there's things that are happening that make sense and then there's a lot that doesn't make any sense

[@whatyoudo9773]

I saw about 30 of them all hovering over a rocket site! Actually I just made that up but can you prove I made it up?

[@williammurray7268]

@@whatyoudo9773 Sorry. I don't get it. What's your point?

[@JeffJackowski]

Some of these swarms are likely airliners flying a published holding pattern. That'll make several circle around above the same spot on the ground at different altitudes.

[@whatyoudo9773]

@@williammurray7268 the point is it's all talk....you may have seen them or just made it up and now its supposed to be explained, get it?

[@struglrt]

The problem is you didn't show any of the good "orb" footage. And the anti-gravity like movements. And bright orbs splashing down in the ocean. You mainly just showed a few of the human drones. The drones are investigating the ufos or so it would appear.

[@JimVajda82]

It’s not just hysteria, read the Wall Street Journal article from October about our Air Force bases. Something real is happening.

[@SpaceCadet4Jesus]

True. It's planes or helicopters landing or flying by. The objects are much too large to be a drone.

[@60babber]

I don't speak Chinese.

[@vextract4662]

Our DHS is looking for something. The lights are there for air traffic safety. Bases were probably shut down due to drones' triangulation of positions to close for comfort. My best guess: military op or the dum dums in charge let something slip through, and they are searching for it.

[@brandonl375]

I saw them in Oct in Ga

[@jeffhaggarty9879]

Then you or the millions of Americans out there should be able to prove this right? Not a single photo or video that does by the way, meaning that yes, it is just hysteria.

[@scyz2807]

Part of this problem "could be" that adult parents - who work during the day - are trying to learn how to fly the new multi-rotors that they have bought as Christmas presents for one or more of their children. They fly them during the night because, this time year it get dark early. Dad gets home from work, then there's dinner time then some TV time then it's time for dad to run out to do some "errand". The errand ends up being learning to fly the new quad copter over in that park - or vacant lot/field - a few blocks away. Gee, when I was young, many years ago, slot car race tracks were the cool Christmas present. Oddly enough, "Santa" always set up the track during the night before Christmas morning. Hmmmmm Could "Santa" be out in the late evening learning to fly that new drone?

[@brianbutler4969]

This dude doesn't have a clue. There is a legitimate problem. Being recently retired from the military, it takes something pretty big to shut bases down. I think individuals that don't listen to the American public probably have a separate agenda. Lots of videos are not fake, some are but some are not. Maybe taking a closer look at what's going on around them is what is needed. I have seen some pretty shady things in my time serving. I have been around a lot of military drones. Most people don't even know the big ones operate by a satellite uplink. Oh and I build and fly FPV drones as a hobbyist. These things flying around are not normal. The flight times and altitude are very strange. The airspace they are operating in, is strange and the lack of remote location IDs are strange. I don't believe a single word coming from the government, especially the military. 🫡 The professional drone community is going nuts because they don't want rheir drone operations shut down.

[@pin65371]

Its a NASA program along with the Pentagon. They are basically testing drone swarm technology along with testing systems at the military bases. Sandboxx put out a video talking about it.

[@natatattful]

Why are some people so eager to say it's nothing?

[@N.SilvaSousa]

You said all

[@madasheck1617]

It's going on in Arizona too, all over Arizona. Tucson, Flagstaff, Phoenix, Cochise county.

[@noelogara1]

Check out the holograms technology. That's why they are silent and can't be shot down and can move at the speed of light.

[@APOLLOSTEES]

Totally agree. Seems like so many people have been scared of drones from the beginning. Just because a few people misuse them, they think all drones are bad.

[@BrandonOutside]

With these kind of events, I’m usually more curious if there’s something else they’re trying to distract everyone from. Something completely unrelated.

[@mattandshelleymccool4753]

Tony I found you guys recently and bought your SDP book, and have since consumed SO MUCH of your content on KZbin. Fantastic work, I love you guys. My day job is as an airline pilot, and I've avoided most of the media freakout over this. But friends do ask me what I think, so I'll just point them to this video. It covers everything you need to know.

[@abavariannormiepleb9470]

This would be a great opportunity to do a road trip and apply your expertise to document the various types of flying aircraft at night on location in NJ and show everything from the correct setup to the results on YT in the best possible visual quality instead of the Bokeh balls we’re used to at the moment. Would definitely get quite the view count so you most likely wouldn’t do it at a loss.

[@BackstreetDrawler]

I'm happy to see some rational thought and a reasonable level of skepticism. Your explanations surely apply to some part of what's going on. And some of the videos -- especially the most bizarre ones -- I've seen seem highly likely to be intentional hoaxes. BUT, and this is a big but, if ALL of the sightings are totally explainable by the reasons you laid out, why is Congress holding classified briefings on the matter? Why are the majority of these sightings taking place around military bases? And why is the government refusing to reveal anything to the public if it's nothing but a tempest in a teapot?

[@TJM-2023]

The NJ Drone media propaganda blitz is my favorite in recent memory. If you are even slightly alarmed by these reports, then the media owns your mind.

[@mtbboy1993]

8:09 If one ever visits Norway, note that air force rescue/ambulance helicopter is tracked(usually). Might be the same in other countries. But I bet if it's a secret mission by air force in any country that wouldn't be tracked. Also if you see a Hercules flying unusually low in a circle above a residential area in Norway, it's an traditional greeting, saying ''I'm home and alive'' I saw this maneuver once. That's so low one can tell it's a Hercules. But this is normally never done, unless it's training of course, but the circling around a house, isn't training. It's only done when person who lives in the house they circle has returned home safely. But a helicopter doing the same, or lower, it means it's a rescue search. For that usually Air force, police heli is used. I've seen Hercules plane several times over the years, but only doing the house circling, never saw one that low after that. I was told this is an old tradition. But I don't know if it's still being used. But I see there are reports of Hercules flying low all over Norway, ppl being scared of it crashing. I see some reports of Hercules flying low in circles. But I suspect they are just doing a circling of service person's home. But they were during the day, that time I saw one too. II never saw anything in Norway yet. But Russian ''tourist'' was spying, so he was arrested, he flew over power stations I think.

[@MuahMan]

It's just me flying around my DJI Mini 4 Pro! I'm just messing with people.

[@DiskTuna]

attach a speaker and play "take me to your leader" ..

[@MuahMan]

@@Contrafactz I bet you're fun at parties. "No, John let me explain to you why your joke doesn't make sense!"

[@MuahMan]

@@DiskTuna I was thinking of playing some Chinese or Russian speech blasting through a speaker.

[@sandrag.o.1752]

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[@theronwolf3296]

I tend to your skepticism, but have been puzzled with some of the 'blob' shots because while there is a blob that surely looks like a bokeh effect, there are at the same time point sources in the background. Not sure how that would happen, particularly on a phone.

[@Trooper599]

Dude you need to find a better profession, or get FAA certified again. Nobody is pointing their cameras at Christmas trees. You're also missing a WHOLE host of other, stranger videos, including some that were taken by different people from multiple vantage points.

[@artfartzy]

Exactly he is dismissing these to easily

[@Trooper599]

@artfartzy The dude legit sounds like a government disinformation agent, pushing the "it's legal owners having fun, or misidentified planes"... Bro, 30 hobby flyers don't chase coast guard ships. Hobby flyers don't shut down airports for hours. Hobby flyers don't reenact Apocalyse Now, flying 50 of them from out in the ocean to the mainland. Hobby flyers don't fly over military bases, after military radio chatter was released warning that the airspace over the base was closed due to the drones, etc etc... He was literally pulling from the lowest hanging fruit on the tree and claiming he debunked it. First video I've seen feom him, but he seems fairly arrogant and extremely ignorant...

[@DigitalModz]

He didn't do any research as Royle airforce in England have had these over 4 bases, apparently they can't be tracked , can't be seen in infa red , out run jets and avoid optical light . And that's official military account 💯

[@jlad5960]

Every single orb video is an out of focus star, every single one.

[@Trooper599]

@@jlad5960 They're also planes!

[@DavesDroneStuff]

Thanks Tony, you did an EXCELLENT job here. I've been trying to share this information whenever I see concern and speculation. I just hope people are curious enough and reasonable enough to watch, and most importantly think.

[@timouellette4693]

Absolutely no way! I’m not buying it as these suddenly began appearing in these crazy numbers.

[@Thomas-ed4cl]

Mass hysteria is real my freind. And he explained why people are seeing them it's because they are looking.

[@JayJay-he9bk]

It’s actually orbs and the drone are flying to investigate them.

[@davidhunternyc1]

Marjorie Taylor Greene was RIGHT !!! OMG !!!

[@rustyschackleford5800]

17,000 sightings in over 60 states so far.

[@hrpickinstuff]

They have been flying these same drones on the west coast for 2 years. I saw the same drones flying in Long Beach, CA, around San Pedro near the Ports 18 months ago. I called my neighbors to look at them. They hovered in the same spot for 2 hrs at a very low altitude id say about the height of the Stratosphere tower in Las Vegas. There was no military response. These are US military drones.

[@craigcarlson4022]

Tony, A breath of fresh air on all this drone frenzy madness. And yes, our healthcare system mess IS the bigger issue.

[@matthewwarlin7421]

The aliens know FAA guidelines.😱😂

[@tracywofford3384]

And took the day off to observe Thanksgiving with the US 😂

[@Photos-by-Lloyd]

Thanks for taking the time to address this! 😊

[@JasonLeeBoydPhotography]

Couldn’t have said it better myself. Been screaming at the computer screen and TV regarding mass hysteria and all of this nonsense. Great distraction from the healthcare issue at hand.

[@EJohnDanton]

Tony - Thanks for the weigh-in on the Drone phenomena. You are the photographic island of sanity in a sea of madness!

[@janetchristensen7812]

The drones aren't scary....it is why they are there that may be scary.

[@swistedfilms]

Tony, thank you for bringing some perspective and common sense to all of this. Although I'm certain there were some drone sightings, they can't ALL be drones. And what's more is they're flying them at night. When there's not much light. Anywho, so I'm sitting there watching a news report on it and they're showing a guy pointing his phone at the sky in daylight. I'm just like, "How about you point the far superior broadcast camera at whatever it is you're pointing out?!" These people do my head in.

[@mikeysteam]

I had a truck sized drone flying over my house. Turned out it was a spider on my glasses, but I still tell people it was a 7 legged drone.

[@samanthagchere]

Woahhh

[@bencarter7839]

Spiders have 8 legs.

[@robertclark972]

Did it taste good ?

[@savins221]

Oh yea 💯 everyone in NJ recently looked at purchasing a high velocity spacecraft, that’s why they’re seeing all these UFO/drones every night 🫤 bro, worst point you’ve ever made!

[@paulanthony1689]

On September 10th 2001 no one believed airplanes would be used as weapons. The government should issue a statement just to calm everyone down if it is actually just regular drone usage.

[@PartyStarters1]

Nothing regular about this.

[@robertclark972]

The government had been warned about just that type of attack . Ask W.

[@robertclark972]

It is not just regular drone usage . Time will tell .

[@scout702]

I actually used your video to help me pass my 107. Two weeks of constant playing and no problem. thx Tony.

[@Voteckful]

Maybe there are more drones in the night sky because more and more people want to fly at night to catch other drones which leads to so many sightings.

[@filipesemmaisnada]

There are a few things that show that the authorities were overtaken by what was happening: the fact that credible witnesses saw swarms of drones coming from the ocean, the fact that some of these drones didn´t have heat signature, the fact that they deployed a special equipment to track these objects and the equipment failed to work, the appearance of objects abroad over American military bases, and significantly, the faces of those FBI officials in the first hearing at Congress, acknowledging the existence of these objects, while affirming that they didn’t know their origin. Whilst saying that, they added, they weren’t from another country, and they didn’t pose a threat to the US. How would they know that? Seems to me that either they were completely baffled, or they knew much, much more and they weren’t allowed to say. I suspect it to be the case. That said, they needed to cover up the whole story because they don’t want the public to know the truth. Two strategies were used, being one the discredit of the whole thing. They gave to a, how shall I put it, less informed politician the “tip” that it was an iranian mothership who was sending the drones ashore. The sightings began to appear as the work of lunatics. Then they passed to a second stage, launching themselves dozens of drones that obviously were videoed and photographed by the public, now really alarmed, only to say that the images were showing drones or planes which of course was true. They shrewdly counted on the work of you, Tony, and others to debunk the whole thing, because the latter drones were genuinely common ones. This is only my opinion based on what I think an authority would react.

[@yahawahprovidence8260]

It seems to be a mix of drones and orbs. The drones are obvious because they have the required aviation lighting. But then there's the orbs as well, that seem to be a singular light source regards to how close someone zooms in. Which makes me wonder if the drones are up there for the orbs.

[@bk3720]

Out of focus zooms make bokeh balls , also called diffraction rings/disc in the astronomy world. Hate to burst your orbs.

[@reibee1972]

Great video Tony!

[@markguerin6071]

Tony, one news clip I saw showed a sheriff's officer trying to use their thermal vision to identify the drones and said that the object had no heat signature. Do your drones have a heat signature? Have you heard about this?

[@cristibaluta]

All objects have a heat signature, even UFOs

[@jeffhaggarty9879]

I have checked with a basic thermal imaging device and my drone does have one. It is rather small and contained though. Now a jet, private plane and helicopter have obviously massive footprints and they have internal combustion engines and hot particulates come out and have a stream of heat behind them for a ways too. Meaning these are likely small hobby drones at best.

[@d_dave7200]

As always, I very much enjoyed your exasperation! :) Also very good point at the end re: the healthcare issue.

[@Chris-tf7gi]

BOATS at night!. . . have red and green lights! Oh no! There are drones on the water! (and have a spot light and. . . a fishing rod?)

[@DTW-bx2vy]

So do Christmas trees & traffic lights in all honesty

[@budnolan1033]

Thank you, i also have been flying drones for yours, and many other people, every thing you said is 100% Spot on. Thanks again.

[@KevinFlory993]

They are even in your own backyard. Wait, that's my drone.

[@billwalker917]

Thank you for your clear and compelling information. Let us hope that no one tries to shoot one down and causes a tragedy.

[@lionheart4424]

"We don't know if we are living in a simulation or not!" Tony went full tinfoil hat today.

[@falxonPSN]

That's more philosophy not conspiracy theory.

[@Everywhere2]

Yeah, I've always thought Tony's too good looking to be a real human - and too smart, too.

[@pipermoonshine]

thank you. you have just put my fears to rest. thank you. you make a lot of sense. and if you think about it, it is like the toilet paper back in 2020. some news media talked about how one store went out of toilet paper and then all of a sudden there was no toilet paper because people freaked out. We tend to freak out over the most stupidest things.

[@ThatBigGuyAl]

Yes, most people don’t know how to take photos. Yes, most people don’t have the expensive setup to capture these unknown aircraft in high definition or, if they do, do not have it handy when observing the unknown aircraft. Yes, some people are jumping the gun after all this came out, and mistaking regular aircraft for these unknown aircraft. Still, the government is holding press conferences about these things. Still, police forces are reporting that 50 of these unknown aircraft were observed coming off the ocean. Still, not everyone is an ignorant nut case who’s reporting these sightings. Several things can be true at once. People can be identifying these unknown aircraft accurately, and others could just be seeing a Boeing 737. This video is not intellectually honest nor well researched in my opinion.

[@jlad5960]

The government love it when everyone is in a frenzy and they’re getting this one for free, no need for them to manufacture something. All they need are people with a phone and a sub 100 IQ.

[@BABA-ws5eo]

this is the most level headed analysis I've heard on this topic. thanks. Most are just reports from people who have probably not even known what a drone was until all these copy cat reports from people filming out of focus videos and calling the cops and the news about it.

[@ordinalkirk]

This video needed to be made!

[@mr_agave]

Excellent as usual. This is going to make my life as a commercial architectural and drone photographer even more difficult. And forget the haters; they stopped here searching drone news waiting for JRE to post.

[@denisbouvier1489]

These are not drones, they are UAP's until proven otherwise.

[@TonyAndChelsea]

I actually agree with this

[@veil2612]

uhh sorry im not very educated with aircrafts but what dors that acronym stand for? my paranoia is getting wild so ive been researching these things nonstop

[@CWelton6]

unidentified aerial phenomenon​@@veil2612

[@Everywhere2]

@@veil2612 UAP = unidentified aerial phenomenon. It's basically replacing "UFO," which has become closely associated with alien spacecraft. UAP is more neutral and encompasses weather phenomena, lighting aberrations, etc.

[@veil2612]

@@Everywhere2 thanks man, appreciate the details as well!

[@firstfruitsofthelord1222-ki2ki]

There's a lot more to this story than what this man it telling us ..... 🧐

[@BlackStudiosSD]

The reaction to the perceived problem might mean we will no longer be allowed to fly even if we have the necessary licenses. Only time will tell. I was part 107 certified at one time and used your drone guide to study for the test.

[@TonyAndChelsea]

Yeah people react to fear more than facts and I'm convinced 2025 will see really tight drone restrictions... but probably not for corporations.

[@sunitamosesesq]

​@TonyAndChelsea Yep. It seems to me that this drone hysteria has been contrived to bring about an immediate need for 'emergency' legislation, which is going to give the feds much greater control over droner operators and considerably more funding to do it. The bill is in congress right now. The Counter-UAS Authority, Security, Safety and Reauthorization Act of 2024. And I suspect this bill will be amended to have even tighter restrictions as the result of all of this.

[@sunitamosesesq]

It's true. A very sad situation for honest drone operators who are lawfully doing their thing.

[@stevecampbell4118]

@@TonyAndChelseaI had begun studying for the Part 107 test but I’m wondering if it’s still worth the effort.

[@howardroyce5904]

Well done Tony thanks this completely nailed it 👍🏻

[@wingspparow6048]

Then why are the government not saying what they are? where they are from? Who are they from? if it was such a simple explanation then they wouldn’t be so silent. There is something more to this. It isn’t as simple as you say, and what people see with their eyes does not lie. You may see an out of focus light but people may be actually seeing real orbs in the sky.

[@Everywhere2]

Those people need to get photos or videos that are good enough to analyze. Can't investigate something without evidence.

[@DestinationTimeshare]

Because when they say they are just planes, people will say "nah, that can't be it I know what I saw". You can't rationalize with irrational people.

[@ThatBigGuyAl]

@@DestinationTimeshareso why is the government making a big deal out of these sightings? If it was nothing, they wouldn’t have put any attention on it. That’s the biggest counter argument to it all being “mass hysteria”. There is something going on, whether it’s as big as “aliens” or just a foreign adversary spying - I don’t know. I just know something is amiss.

[@dirkreflection639]

Voice of reason. Thank-you, It is refreshing.

[@ofthenearfuture]

These people were committed to never looking up, and then they all did at once

[@magnus547]

Thank you so much. 🙂

[@Rubi747HVY]

Is there a bill in congress needing this hype? i.e. Lobbyists may want to outlaw drones

[@jeffhaggarty9879]

There actually was one trying to ban Chinese drones which happen to make up the bulk of the drones out there. The reality is they want to actually ban them all. Ironically, that bill just failed...

[@helmutsassenfeld8002]

Well, that was hilarious and entertaining The tracking question is interesting. We once had a drone fly up to our house on a very private 25 acre property and it just literally was like 15 feet above my head, looking around at the home and everything. I found that an outrageous invasion of privacy. Cars are different. You generally are using them in public spaces and when you’re not there are usually cameras on parking lots and such so I guess I am for tracking.

[@rapier5]

People love the idea they and their group are under attack. It gives meaning to their whole life. Involving them personally in grand historical events outside the daily grind.

[@RyanGazling]

13:32 😂 Is it a bird? Is it a plane? It must be a DRONE

[@Wilson-ky30]

We know what air planes are we also know airplanes don’t travel 1000mph come to a complete stop turn 90degree and then go from 0 to 1000 in half a second

[@donstravelsandrants.]

I love logic and rationality. Thanks Tony. 👍😊🇮🇪🇺🇲

[@dynamicphotography_]

"Tony on KZbin" was not at the Classified Briefing this afternoon, but still blessed us with the truth. Amazing guy.

[@vk2aafhamradio]

How do you know? You were clearly there, right? Right?

[@rodneygerdes3791]

Thank you for the video. Great to see coverage from a photography and videography expert!

[@TonyAndChelsea]

Thank you!

[@mdog6726]

Tony’s FAA Part 107 study is the real deal. Passed first time. Thanks bro.

[@rolandgibbs9036]

Recency effect. That was the term I was looking for. Thanks

[@Fidel_Cashflow00]

Tony, you have the high end equipment. Go out at night and film one of those. You are on the East Coast. Get a sharp picture. That will either confirm they are drones or something else..

[@teetermeeter]

What would that accomplish? People would just say "of course that's an airplane what I saw was not"

[@Everywhere2]

How long's he got to sit in a field watching Elon's satellites go by?

[@Arlo360-Official]

Remote ID is not just for police. There are free apps out there that broadcast drone information, no? .

[@is6566]

Yes.

[@vk2aafhamradio]

No. Drones are not required to carry ADSB transponders.

[@Arlo360-Official]

@@vk2aafhamradio Perhaps what you refer to as an ADSB transponder specifically is not required, however, remote ID is. Newer drones have it built in. Older drones require a small module be attached. Do some research on FAA Part 89.

[@is6566]

Yes drones are required to be registered and broadcast an ID and there are apps available for iPhone and you can use them to identify them according to the CEO of a drone development company that develops drones for the US military. He stated this in an interview.

[@is6566]

One of them is Drone Scanner. Supposedly works better on Android. Some people reported that they had issues on iOS.

[@DiskTuna]

A voice of sanity.

[@drewp1974]

By sanity you mean, using atheist dogma to deny anything that could be unknown

[@TowelsKingdom]

Thanks for speaking sense

[@brucemichelotti4887]

Spot on Tony. People, for some reason, want to see little green men that aren't there.

[@ladyethyme]

Not particularly surprising in this day and age of rabid conspiracy theorists, who claim to know secret information that nobody else is privy to. Including experts in the subject.

[@zachi70]

Thank you, Tony, for bringing sanity and logic to a world ruled by disinformation and mass hysteria. And especially for calling out shitposters by their names.

[@NatureAndStars]

02:25 Maybe if he would focus the image, it wouldn't be a "round shield". Man, people are really dumb sometimes.

[@aleoli.photography]

So all of those sightings can be explained? That's just what they want us to think 😂😂😂

[@TyChee]

Well done Tony. I’m a photographer and a drone pilot and I’ve been telling anyone who asked the same things.

[@jojocool555]

I just realied how funny and strange when someone states such an obvious facts, great video,,,,subcribed. x

[@edwardslizewski3296]

I agree with you, Tony. Especially on the last point about the health insurance companies. Our attention has been drawn away from them. These drone sightings are being used for diversion.

[@Timetraveller2208]

I said roughly the same thing 10 minutes ago too. There must be a grain of truth in it then? A huge wealthy country like America; its surprising you don't have an NHS like we do. I really sympathise with the American people, as my German Shepherd 'pictured'. His insurance is going up in January from £1,250 a year, to £2,400 a year. Its going to be a nightmare fore me, as I'm not able to get back to my job till early summer as I need a hip replacement, due in March.

[@Kimian111]

That light spread in videos is also due to greasy film on the lens, so it could be in focus but that bubble look will appear if your lens is dirty.

[@Dogdocphil]

THANK you! we have ZERO depth perception at night. How can people say they are the size of a truck? Plus the news channels have really hyped up the sightings. I remember a few years back the National News led with the story that Heathrow Airport was closed three nights in a row because of Drone sightings. It turned out to be a light on top of a crane!

[@natatattful]

are you kidding wow

[@N.SilvaSousa]

Because it was flying low? Oww...so, the army is so histec