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You're not looking very hard then, as my coworker shared videos from his own back yard with our team

I just saw a video posted to a drone mystery Facebook group where the “drone” had the word “United” emblazoned on the side…

that one is making the rounds - but that is like 1 out of 1000 samples. denialists are leaping onto this post as though it represents the entire situation.

> denialists are leaping onto this post as though it represents the entire situation

Sounds easy to pick out the one which shows the mystery drone and share that then.

Can you share the most convincing video(s) you've seen? I've spent more time than I care to admit combing over these threads on HN and other places, and haven't seen a single video that I don't readily recognize as an aircraft (fixed or rotor) or simple DJI-style quadcopter.

edit: I forgot to mention the category of plainly digitally altered.

That's quite a statement. You make it sound like people haven't done their due diligence unless they have infiltrated your team's internal comms and dutifully searched it for potential drone videos.

I've been trying to look very hard just out of curiosity, and I've drowned in hoaxes.

If you can point some videos of really strange appearances that aren't airliners or other aircraft I'd very much appreciate, right now it's quite hard to find through rummaging the internet, the hysteria has taken over.

We're not disagreeing that people are sharing videos, but they're almost all airplanes, stars, and small civilian drones. I'm certain this is the case with your coworker's video as well.

Ok. I assume he lives in a dense area, near airports, and his videos looked like blurry lights in the night sky, with nothing near them to establish an objective size, or even speed?

can you post them here?

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