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Finally caught a weird light on video after 3 years of trying
Last week near my folks' place in rural Oregon, I saw this orange orb hover over the treeline for maybe 20 seconds before it vanished - no sound, no blinking, just gone. Has anyone else seen something that moves way too smooth to be a drone?
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the_anthony1mo ago
Yeah that smooth motion is the freakiest part. Drones wobble or make some kind of humming noise. These orbs slide through the air like they're on rails. I've seen two in the last year and both just hung there for a bit then zipped off at an angle that doesn't make sense. No FAA lights no prop wash nothing. Makes you wonder what the government really knows about these things.
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rileygarcia1mo ago
Look, the FAA has strict lighting requirements for ANY aircraft operating at night, so if these things really had no lights they'd be grounded immediately or tracked. Plenty of hobbyist drones can hit 60+ mph in sport mode and some FPV builds are almost silent from 50 feet away, so that "on rails" movement could just be a really tight GPS lock. Until someone gets a clear radar track or actual debris, I'm calling these sightings what they usually are: misidentified military drones or high-end consumer quads with modified firmware.
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amy_west1mo ago
You make a really solid point about the FAA rules, it's hard to argue with that logic. I've seen a few of these things myself and the silence is what gets me, even the quietest FPV builds I've heard still make some noise up close. Wish more people would focus on getting hard evidence like radar data instead of just jumping to conclusions.
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