Drones: The Guesses Just Keep on Coming

I had hoped, with Congress in recess and we’re in the middle of the holidays, that I would be free from more drone discussion. However, there was one interesting item I caught over the weekend. Representative Nancy Mace, who is the Chairwoman of the House Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology and Government Innovation, said that she had been in a classified briefing on the drones.

Like President-elect Trump, she was careful about what she said. She indicated that the government did know more about these drone incursions that the claimed and said that she was interested in the fact that there were two distinct shapes involved in some of those sightings. She then said she didn’t want to get into the classified information she had received. If we follow the two-source rule used by journalists, we have two sources, that have been identified and who, given who their inside status, are in a position to know something more about the drones than we civilians.

In the last few days, there has been more analysis, some of it by other officials and some of it by various pundits, that suggests the government, or elements of the government, know what is going on. And there are those who are saying, with some justification, that this latest interest is the result of hysteria. Too many people outside looking for drones and spotting them. Or, in other words, not all the sightings are of these unidentified drones.

I also need point out that there are very few of us who believe that the drones are of off-world manufacture. This whole thing is Earth based.

Finally, there is no evidence, at the moment, that has been given to us by the government or that we have learned ourselves, that there is a threat here. I suppose we could say, and some have said, the drones could be a threat to aerial navigation, and one airport was shut down by a close encounter with a drone, but the truth is, this is one of those reflective phenomena. That means, simply, that the more attention we pay to it, the more our interest increases.

Anyway, the holidays have gotten in the way of drone reporting. We still see interesting video, and some of the news media continues to pursue the story, but the rest of us are no longer that interested in it.

Now, for those interested in such things, I’m doing Night Dreams Radio. For those interested, you can watch and listen here:

https://youtube.com/@nightdreamstalkradio?si=3dTWZX-SpgO0_zT4

And going completely off script, my wishes that everyone has a better new year than the last.